Browsing by Author "Qin, Xiao"

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A Location-Based Indoor Recommendation System Using A Hidden Markov Model

Ding, Yusheng (2016-05-02)

Recommendation systems play an important role in both the industrial and the academic worlds because they can combine theoretical study and market use together perfectly. Through improving user experience, recommendation ...

Maintaining the Security and Availability of a Stream of Time-Dependent Secret Information in an Ad-Hoc Network.

Sprunger, John David (2018-11-15)

In this thesis we present a system called Ad Hoc Security for maintaining the security and availability of a stream of time-dependent secret data in an ad-hoc network. Time-dependence refers to how each piece of data is ...

A Methodology for Increasing the Dependability of Open Source Software Components

Pape, Patrick (2013-04-16)

With the increasing use of open source software components in real world systems, there has arisen a need for increasing the dependability of these components. The dependability of these components can be increased like ...

Mobility and Energy Management in 5G Ultra-Dense Networks

Sun, Li (2022-12-05)

Triggered by the development of 5G technologies, the demand for mobile data has grown tremendously in recent years. It leads to an urgent need to upgrade the current macro-cell-based architecture of network infrastructure ...

A novel CPU P-State driver for better thermal control with improved power/performance trade-off

Uppu, Pavan Ravi Teja (2015-12-14)

Power consumption and thermal emergencies in multi-core processors are now a major bottleneck due to increased heat dissipation caused by running intensive programs on densely integrated systems. High temperatures lead to ...

Novel Machine Learning Algorithms for Analyzing Large-scale Genomic and Genetic Data

Wang, Ye (2020-12-01)

With the advancement of next-generation sequencing technology, numerous disease/ phenotypic associations with the human microbiome and human genome are uncovered and revealed. In this dissertation, we take advantage of ...

On the Machine Illusion

Gong, Zhitao (2019-10-14)

In this work, we empirically study an emerging problem in the machine learning community, i.e., the adversarial samples. Specifically, we focus on the discussion within the realm of neural networks. The existence of ...

Optimizing Task Throughput for Large-scale Mobile Crowdsourcing in Smart Cities

Li, Wei (2021-08-09)

In mobile crowdsourcing, workers are financially motivated to perform as many self-selected tasks as possible to maximize their revenue. Unfortunately, the existing task scheduling approaches in mobile crowdsourcing fail ...

Popularity-Aware Storage Systems for Big Data Applications

Cao, Ting (2022-07-11)

Recommendation algorithms play an increasingly dominant role in big data services like Netflix and YouTube. In streaming applications, it becomes unavoidable that trillion tons of personal and industrial data are flooded ...

Privacy Protected Location Based Services

Bao, Jie (2009-08-04)

An increasing number of the mobile devices nowadays embedded with the GPS module (e.g., smart phones, PDAs and RFIDs), which makes the user can facilitated from the location based services. They can ask for the nearby ...

Privacy Protection of Employer Location based on Casper Query Processing

Mukherjee, Swagata (2016-12-12)

Protection of location privacy is often an essential requirement for any new or established business organization. When a new store is being set up, the owners may want to protect their exact location in order to prevent ...

Privacy-Enabled Probabilistic Verification in Broadcast Authentication for Vehicular Networks

Grover, Kanika (2014-10-10)

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 ...

Prototyping the Reference Implementation of Persistent Non-Blocking Collective Communication in MPI

Morgan, Ian Bradley (2017-07-26)

This research focuses on the design, prototype implementation and standardization sta- tus of persistent non-blocking collective operations for the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard, through functional extension of ...

Real Time Fake News Detection using Objectivity extraction and Analytics Approaches

Zhang, Chaowei (2021-07-14)

Fake news is playing an increasingly dominant role in spreading misinformation by influencing people's perceptions or knowledge to distort their awareness and decision-making. The growth of social media and online forums ...

Resilient and Reliable Communication for First Responders with Ad Hoc Network and MPTCP

Cui, Yue (2023-12-08)

In severe hazardous situations, reliable network communication is an important infrastructure for conveying vital real-time information from sensors embedded in first responders. Important communications and emergency ...

Resource and Service Management for Fog Infrastructure as a Service

Shaik, Shehenaz (2019-07-30) ETD File Embargoed

Cloud computing stops short in its offerings towards deployment of latency-critical and bandwidth-intensive applications. Fog computing is emerging as complementary to cloud computing in realizing the deployment of large-scale ...

Secdoop: A Confidentiality Service for Hadoop Clusters

Majors, James (2011-04-07)

The MapReduce model has proven to be an effective way to demonstrate academic research while using distributed file-systems. The MapReduce programming model was introduced by Google in 2004. MapReduce has proven to be a ...

Secure File Assignment in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems

Tian, Yun (2013-04-23)

There is a growing demand for large-scale distributed storage systems to support resource sharing and fault tolerance. Although heterogeneity issues of distributed systems have been widely investigated, little attention ...

Taming the Scientific Big Data with Flexible Organizations for Exascale Computing

Tian, Yuan (2012-07-31)

The last five years of supercomputers has evolved at an unprecedented rate as High Performance Computing (HPC) continue to progress towards exascale computing in 2018. These systems enable scientists to simulate scientific ...

Thermal Management and Data Archiving in Data Centers

Chen, Yuanqi (2016-05-06)

This dissertation is focused on thermal and resource management of data centers. Recognizing that there is the lack of comprehensive benchmarks for thermal management in the context of cluster computing in data centers, ...