Mobile Application Device Power Usage Measurements
Reducing power consumption has become a crucial design tenet for both mobile and other small computing devices that are not constantly connected to a power source. However, unlike devices that have a limited and predefined set of functionality, recent
Efficient Methods for Interoperability Testing Using Event Sequences
Many software testing problems involve sequences of events. The methods described in this paper were motivated by testing needs of mission critical systems that may accept multiple communication or sensor inputs and generate output to several communication
Abstract Measuring the dissimilarity between non-rigid objects is a challenging problem in 3D shape retrieval. One potential solution is to construct the models 3D canonical forms (i.e., isometry-invariant representations in 3D Euclidean domain) on which
The Date-Time Vocabulary is a new OMG specification that models continuous time, discrete time, the relationship of events and situations to time, language tense and aspect, time indexicals, timetables, and schedules. It offers a "business vocabulary" (i.e
[Print Title: "Establishing a Secure Framework"] Recently, NIST completed a fundamental transformation of the traditional certification and accreditation process into a comprehensive, near real-time, security life cycle process as part of a Risk Management
Origin of Electrical Signals for Plasma Etching Endpoint Detection: Comparison of Endpoint Signals and Electron Density
Electrical signals are used for endpoint detection in plasma etching, but the origin of the electrical changes observed at endpoint is not well understood. As an etch breaks through one layer and exposes an underlayer, the fluxes and densities of etch
We look at arithmetic progressions on elliptic curves known as Huff curves. By an arithmetic progression on an elliptic curve, we mean that either the x or y-coordinates of a sequence of rational points on the curve form an arithmetic progression. Previous
A binary de Bruijn sequence of order n is a cyclic sequence of period 2^n, in which each n-bit pattern appears exactly once. These sequences are commonly used in applications such as stream cipher design, pseudo-random number generation, 3-D pattern
While cloud security concerns have consistently ranked as one of the top challenges to cloud adoption, it is not clear what security issues are special with respect to cloud computing. To approach this question, we attempt to derive cloud security issues
NIST Test Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Cards
In order to facilitate the development of applications and middleware that support the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Card, NIST has developed a set of test PIV Cards and a supporting public key infrastructure. This set of test cards includes not
Recommendation for Key Management - Part 1: General (Revision 3)
[Superseded by SP 800-57 Part 1 Revision 4 (January 2016): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=919831]This Recommendation provides cryptographic key management guidance in three parts. Part 1 of the Recommendation 1) defines the
Preparing for and Responding to CA Compromise and Fraudulent Certificate Issuance
As the use of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificates (e.g., the use of Transport Layer Security [TLS] and Secure Sockets Layer [SSL]) for the security of systems has increased, the certification authorities (CAs) that issue certificates
The Common Misuse Scoring System (CMSS): Metrics for Software Feature Misuse Vulnerabilities
The Common Misuse Scoring System (CMSS) is a set of measures of the severity of software feature misuse vulnerabilities. A software feature is a functional capability provided by software. A software feature misuse vulnerability is a vulnerability in which
We introduce a novel method to faithfully reconstruct unknown quantum states that are approximately low-rank, using only a few measurement settings. The method is general enough to allow for measurements from a continuous family, and is also applicable to
We consider here worst-case analysis of backscatter from passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. The basis is a figure of merit "B" to relate link power at reader ports to tag circuit parameters. A minimum bound for received monostatic
This chapter discusses the use of wireless networks in the context of the smart grid. First, it provides an overview of the various applications envisaged in the smart grid and discusses their communication requirements. Sifting through thousands of
Maximum Life Span Strategy for Target Tracking in Mobile Sensor Networks
In this paper, an energy-efficient technique is proposed for tracking a target in a field using a network of mobile sensors while maximizing the life span of the network. The most important energy consumption sources in a mobile sensor network (MSN) are