PRISMS Publications

Enhancing Child Safety & Online Technologies. Appendix D: Technology Advisory Board Report.
Laura DeBonis, Ben Adida, Scott Bradner, Hany Farid, Lee Hollaar, Todd Inskeep, Brian Neil Levine, Adi Mcabian, R.L. Morgan, Lam Nguyen, Jeff Schiller, and Danny Weitzner. Technical report, Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States, December 2008.
Keywords: peer-to-peer; security; [bibtex] [appendix_d] [full_report]

Getting things done on computational RFIDs with energy-aware checkpointing and voltage-aware scheduling.
Benjamin Ransford, Shane Clark, Mastooreh Salajegheh, and Kevin Fu. In USENIX Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower), December 2008.
Keywords: Power Management; [bibtex] [PDF] [workshop] [ieee_spectrum] [slides]

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) of implanted cardiac devices by MP3 player headphones.
Sinjin Lee, Benjamin Ransford, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel. Circulation, 118(18 Supplement), November 2008. Abstract 662, 2008 American Heart Association Annual Scientific Sessions.
Keywords: IMD; [bibtex] [abstract] [ap] [medgadget] [reuters] [us_news_world_report] [video]

Enabling Interactive Web Applications in Hybrid Networks.
Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Neil Levine, and Arun Venkataramani. In Proc. ACM Mobicom, pages 70--80, September 2008.
Keywords: wireless; DTN; information retrieval; [bibtex] [PDF]

Relays, Base Stations, and Meshes: Enhancing Mobile Networks with Infrastructure.
Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark D. Corner, Don Towsley, and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. ACM Mobicom, pages 81--91, San Francisco, CA, USA, September 2008.
Keywords: Wireless; DTN; [bibtex] [PDF] [traces]

Resisting structural identification in anonymized social networks.
Michael Hay, Gerome Miklau, David Jensen, Don Towsley, and Philipp Weis. In VLDB Conference, August 2008.
Keywords: Security; database security; Privacy; [bibtex] [PDF]

Auditguard: a system for database auditing under retention restrictions.
Wentian Lu and Gerome Miklau. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB) Demo Program, 1(2):1484--1487, August 2008.
Keywords: Security; database security; Auditing; [bibtex] [PDF]

Interactive WiFi Connectivity for Moving Vehicles.
Aruna Balasubramanian, Ratul Mahajan, Arun Venkataramani, Brian Neil Levine, and John Zahorjan. In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, pages 427--438, August 2008.
Keywords: wireless; DTN; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [traces]

Chameleon: Application Level Power Management.
Xiaotao Liu, Prashant Shenoy, and Mark D. Corner. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 7(8):995-1010, August 2008.
Keywords: Power Management; Journal Paper; [bibtex]

Absence makes the heart grow fonder: New directions for implantable medical device security.
Tamara Denning, Kevin Fu, and Tadayoshi Kohno. In Proceedings of USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), July 2008.
Keywords: security; IMD; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides]

Log sanitization: Auditing a database under retention restrictions.
Wentian Lu and Gerome Miklau. Technical Report 22, University of Massachusetts Amherst, June 2008.
Keywords: Security; database security; auditing; [bibtex] [PDF]

Sherlock: Automatically locating objects for humans.
Aditya Nemmaluri, Mark D. Corner, and Prashant Shenoy. In Proceedings of MobiSys, pages 187-198, Breckenridge, CO, June 2008.
Keywords: Pervasive/UbiComp; RFID; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides]

MORA Routing and Capacity Building in Disruption-Tolerant Networks.
Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, and Brian Neil Levine. Elsevier Ad hoc Networks Journal, 6(4):600-620, June 2008.
Keywords: DTN; routing; Synthesis project; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF]

Self-interested database managers playing the view maintenance game.
Hala Mostafa, Victor R. Lesser, and Gerome Miklau. In Proc. International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 871--878, May 2008.
Keywords: database; [bibtex]

Pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators: Software radio attacks and zero-power defenses.
Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Will Morgan, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2008. Outstanding Paper Award.
Keywords: security; IMD; Award Paper; [bibtex] [PDF] [medgadget] [balimore_sun] [boston_globe] [details] [nytimes] [risks] [schneier] [slashdot] [wsj]

Passive-Logging Attacks Against Anonymous Communications Systems.
Matthew Wright, Micah Adler, Brian Neil Levine, and Clay Shields. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 11(2), May 2008.
Keywords: anonymity; security; Journal Paper; [bibtex] [PDF]

Low-Latency Anonymity System: Statistical Attacks and New Applications.
Marc Liberatore. PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, February 2008.
Keywords: security; Thesis; anonymity; ; [bibtex] [PDF]

Analyzing privacy in enterprise trace anonymization.
Bruno Ribiero, Weifeng Chen, Gerome Miklau, and Don Towsley. In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2008.
Keywords: security; anonymity; Privacy; [bibtex] [PDF]

Security and privacy for implantable medical devices.
Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Special Issue on Implantable Electronics, January 2008.
Keywords: security; IMD; [bibtex] [PDF] [abstract]

Quantifying Resistance to the Sybil Attack.
N. Boris Margolin and Brian Neil Levine. In Proc. Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), pages 1--15, January 2008.
Keywords: Sybil attack; security; peer-to-peer; anonymity; [bibtex] [PDF]