Ratnasamy
Skilled in the Art of Being Idle: Reducing Energy Waste in Networked Systems
S. Nedevschi, J. Chandrashekar, J. Liu, B. Nordman, S. Ratnasamy, N. Taft, “Skilled in the Art of Being Idle: Reducing Energy Waste in Networked Systems,” NSDI’09, (April 2009). [PDF] Summary This paper argues that putting networked end-systems into low-power sleep modes, instead of keeping them in higher-power-consuming idle states, can result in significant energy savings. ...
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Not-a-Bot: Improving Service Availability in the Face of Botnet Attacks
R. Gummadi, H. Balakrishnan, P. Maniatis, S. Ratnasamy, “Not-a-Bot: Improving Service Availability in the Face of Botnet Attacks,” NSDI’09, (April 2009). [PDF] Summary In recent years, botnets have become the major originators of email spams, DDoS attacks, and click-frauds on advertisement-based web sites. This paper argues that separating human-generated traffic from botnet-generated activities can improve ...
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