We present our vision of a new group collaboration infrastructure, the Networked Semantic Desktop, drawing from co-evolving research in the Semantic Web, Peer-toPeer (P2P) Networks, and Online Social Networking.

Disasters lead to devastating structural damage not only to buildings and transport infrastructure, but also to other critical infrastructure, such as the power grid and communication backbones. Following such an event, the availability of minimal communication services is however crucial to allow efficient and coordinated disaster response, to enable timely public information, or to provide in...

The area of mobile ad hoc networking has received considerable attention of the research community in recent years. These networks have gained immense popularity primarily due to their infrastructure-less mode of operation which makes them a suitable candidate for deployment in emergency scenarios like relief operation, battlefield etc., where either the pre-existing infrastructure is totally d...

86 world in technology development. From the perspective of communications and networking technologies, as well as associated algorithms, protocols, and controls, APL’s efforts include providing the following: • Maximum wireless communication capability out of limited spectrum, especially in challenging communication environments, including intermittent and unpredictable link availability becau...

Another clever use of spoofing to gain insight into the infrastructure not otherwise practically feasible to obtain by researchers. The paper presents a nice and cute technique for mapping out a CDN provider's infrastructure. Although the techniques provided are specific to Google's CDN, the authors show how their technique can be used to quantify the coverage and accuracy of prior techniques. ...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Joakim Koskela Name of the doctoral dissertation A Secure Peer-to-Peer Application Framework Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Computer Science Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 14/2015 Field of research Network architectures and security Manuscript submitted 25 February 2011 Date o...

We have previously proposed, implemented and demonstrated an Application Layer Active Network (ALAN) infrastructure. This infrastructure permits the dynamic deployment of active services in the network, but at the application level rather than the router level. Thus the advantages of active networking are realised, without the disadvantages of router level implementation. However we have previo...

The contribution of this thesis is the study, design and implementation of a resilient and secure communication infrastructure for decentralized peer-to-peer networks. On today’s Internet, free and unrestricted communication between users is often restricted due to limited connectivity between participants, attempts to degrade service for certain traffic classes and other filtering and manipula...

We propose a range of techniques to motivate people to share a small fraction of their available resources in designing a new networking technology to provide near-ubiquitous connectivity to others. Such technology can be used whenever the infrastructure is unavailable to provide general connectivity between individuals, and to to the Internet at large, and particularly in cases of emergency. P...

Cloud computing has transformed a large portion of the IT industry through its ability to provision infrastructure resources – computing, networking, storage, and software as services. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has transformed the physical underlying network infrastructure into programmable and virtualized networks. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has transformed physical telecom...