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Smart Cambridge University Colleges Streamline Financial Operations
White Paper The University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has 31 colleges, which attract leading academics, students, and visitors from all over the world. In 2000, a change in the university's accounting format prompted two colleges, Emmanuel and... [09 Feb 2008]
Acute and TCP: Specifying and Developing Abstractions for Global Computation
White Paper This paper describes ongoing work to establish semantic foundations for real-world distributed computation. This paper is designing and implementing Acute, an expressive and safe programming language (based on an OCaml core) with features for... [15 Jan 2008]
Tweaking TCP's Timers CUED/F-INFENG/TR.487
White Paper This paper presents an architecture for implementing TCP timers efficiently at user-level, as part of the Cambridge User-Level TCP (CULT). The unusual architecture that CULT presents (as opposed to the normal in-kernel arrangement) makes the use of... [15 Jan 2008]
Scalable TCP: Improving Performance in Highspeed Wide Area Networks
White Paper TCP congestion control can perform badly in highspeed wide area networks because of its slow response with large congestion windows. The challenge for any alternative protocol is to better utilize networks with high bandwidth-delay products in a... [15 Jan 2008]
Which cities top the wealth league?
News Exceptions to the rule include the university cities of Cambridge and Oxford which are performing well on the back of knowledge economies dominated by public sector employment. The rise of high tech 'knowledge' jobs is helping break down England's... [07 Jan 2008]
CPS hack attack guidelines: 'Confused'
News Richard Clayton, a security researcher at the University of Cambridge, said while much of the guidance from the CPS on how to interpret the amendments was "extremely sensible", there were still "significant difficulties" in dual-use tool... [04 Jan 2008]
TCP, UDP, and Sockets: Rigorous and Experimentally-Validated Behavioural Specification
White Paper This paper has developed a mathematically rigorous and experimentally-validated post-hoc specification of the behaviour of TCP, UDP, and the Sockets API. It characterises the API and network-interface interactions of a host, using operational... [20 Dec 2007]
On the Stability of Networks Operating TCP-Like Congestion Control
White Paper This paper derives decentralized and scalable stability conditions for a fluid approximation of a class of Internet-like communications networks operating a modified form of TCP-like congestion control. [20 Dec 2007]
TCP Sending Rate Control at Tera Bits Per Second
White Paper An analysis of the sending rate of TCP control over Terabit per second rate links illustrates how future optical network characteristics, such as higher bitrates, network congestion, and larger data loads, would affect performance. [20 Dec 2007]
TCP-XM: Unicast-Enabled Reliable Multicast
White Paper Much work has been done on attempting to scale multicast data transmission to hundreds or thousands of receivers. There are, however, many situations where an application might involve transmission to just ten or twenty sites. [20 Dec 2007]
Embedding Covert Channels Into TCP/IP
White Paper It is commonly believed that steganography within TCP/IP is easily achieved by embedding data in header fields seemingly filled with "Random" data, such as the IP identifier, TCP Initial Sequence Number (ISN) or the least significant bit of the... [20 Dec 2007]
Ignoring the Great Firewall of China
White Paper The so-called "Great Firewall of China" operates, in part, by inspecting TCP packets for keywords that are to be blocked. If the keyword is present, TCP reset packets (viz: with the RST flag set) are sent to both endpoints of the connection, which... [06 Dec 2007]
UK-India grad school get networking virtually…
News BT will be joined in the consortium by IT consultancy Intergence Systems, plus 10 UK universities: Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Lancaster, Queen Mary, Southampton, St Andrews, Surrey, University College London and Ulster. [04 Dec 2007]
Failures in a Hybrid Content Blocking System
White Paper Three main methods of content blocking are used on the Internet: blocking routes to particular IP addresses, blocking specific URLs in a proxy cache or firewall, and providing invalid data for DNS lookups. [24 Oct 2007]
Computer games 'can help plug IT skills gap'
News However, Richard Clayton, a security expert at Cambridge University and an adviser to the government's Science and Technology Committee, said it is a mistake to think universities should provide training as opposed to education. [22 Oct 2007]
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