The growth of cellular users using to communicate at any place and any time increases the signaling activities among the cellular networks. To reduce the network costs and better usage of radio resources, an efficient location management scheme: location updating and paging strategies are essential to improve the network performance. This paper presents a mixed location management strategy that...

Location Management of mobile users in a cellular network is considered from a performance and privacy point of view. Location management covers tracking functionality and paging (searching) functionality. After a risk analysis of location management w.r.t. privacy, we focus on the paging strategy. A sequential search strategy is proposed which reduces the signaling on the air interface and als...

Conceptually, fast server-side page cache storage could dramatically reduce paging I/O. In this workshop extended abstract, we speculate how such a device might be used, then show how it can be implemented virtually in a hypervisor. We then introduce hcache (pronounced “aitch-cash”), our prototype implementation built on the Xen hypervisor and utilized by slightly modified Linux paravirtualized...

Digital memory forensics consists of analyzing various components of a memory image from a compromised host. A memory image consists of data and processes that were running on the system at the time the image was created. Previously running processes are one of the key items in memory images to identify, including potentially hidden processes. Each process has its own paging structures that def...

BACKGROUND Though current hospital paging systems are neither efficient (callbacks disrupt workflow), nor secure (pagers are not Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA]-compliant), they are routinely used to communicate patient information. Smartphone-based text messaging is a potentially more convenient and efficient mobile alternative; however, commercial cellular networks...