Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Author "Umphress, David A."

Traditional web applications rely on the client-server model to request and render data on the browser. Although this architecture has been popular for over a decade, waiting for information as the server caters to ...

Differencing in computer science is often used to quickly determine differences between two files. While this works well for plain text files, such as source code, applying differencing to binary executable files is more ...

Cloud computing has emerged as the de facto service model for modern enterprises; however, security concerns remain a major impediment to full-scale adoption. Concurrent to this paradigm shift looms another concern that ...

Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) possess an extremely dynamic nature accompanying the high mobility feature. In VANETs, each vehicle sends out safety messages at regular intervals of 100-300 ms. Since the purpose of ...

Directed diffusion is a data-centric publish-subscribe routing protocol for sensor networks. We have proposed three network services which increase the capabilities of directed diffusion. Our protocols build on the inherent ...

Since its inception, the smart phone has quickly become one of the most ubiquitous technological artifacts in today’s society. In the first quarter of 2014, 281.5 million units were shipped. This was a 28.6 percent ...