The increasing use of RFID tags in many applications have brought forth valid concerns of
privacy and anonymity among users. One of the primary concerns with RFID tags is their …

Collaborative Internet worm containment Page 1 Infrastructure Security MIN CAI, KAI HWANG,
YUKWONG KWOK, SHANSHAN SONG, AND YU CHEN University of Southern California …

There is significant interest in the data mining and network management communities about
the need to improve existing techniques for clustering multivariate network traffic flow …

Column-oriented indexes—such as projection or bitmap indexes—are compressed by run-
length encoding to reduce storage and increase speed. Sorting the tables improves …

The problem of monitoring and characterizing network traffic arises in the context of a variety
of network management functions. For example, consider the five functions defined in the …

Multi-key membership testing plays a crucial role in computing systems and networking
applications, encompassing web search, mail systems, distributed databases, firewalls, and …

Multi-key membership testing refers to checking whether a queried element exists in a given
set of multi-key elements, which is a fundamental operation for computing systems and …

Cardinality estimation is the task of obtaining the number of distinct items in a data stream,
which plays an important role in many application domains. However, when dealing with …

Fast and accurate generation of worm signatures is essential to contain zero-day worms at
the Internet scale. Recent work has shown that signature generation can be automated by …

Measuring flow cardinality is one of the fundamental problems in data stream mining, where
a data stream is modeled as a sequence of items from different flows and the cardinality of a …