Currency-based mechanisms have been proposed as a way to use resource fairness among contenders for a service to thwart Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Under resource fairness, a server allocates its service to the clients in proportion to their payment of a resource, making the resource serve as a kind of currency. We consider the vulnerability of currency-based DoS defense mechanisms to vari...

The relationship between inflation and relative price variability (RPV) is widely believed to be positive and stable. Using disaggregated CPI data for the U.S. and Japan, however, this study finds that the relationship is neither linear nor stable over time. The overall relationship is approximately U-shaped and symmetric around a certain threshold: a positive correlation on one side but a trad...