Computer Science Technical Reports: Recent submissions

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    • Trust Based Dynamic Source Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks 

      Keane, John (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      The notion of an ad hoc network is a new paradigm that allows mobile hosts (called nodes) to communicate without relying on a predefined infrastructure to keep the network connected. Most nodes are assumed to be mobile and ...

    • Internet Worm Detection as part of a Distributed Network Inspection System 

      Linehan, Eamonn (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2004-09)
      The most widely publicized, and arguably most damaging, types of malicious traffic on the Internet today include worms, spam, viruses and denial of service attacks. Internet worms self propagate across networks exploiting ...

    • A Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Collaborative Spam Filtering 

      Cottereau, Laurent (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      Over the last twenty years, the importance of electronic mail has risen to a point where it is now a critical medium for many companies and individuals. This fact has led to the emergence of a new method of invasive ...

    • Scalability Issues in Cluster Web Servers 

      Bitorika, Arkaitz (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      In this dissertation a Web cluster architecture is designed, implemented and evaluated. We believe that the use of COTS hardware and integrated front end and back end software better scalability and flexibility can be ...

    • SIBLINGS A Server Framework for the Platform-Adaptive Delivery of Site Content 

      Sant, Joseph (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)
      The increasing use of devices such as connected palmtops and internet appliances has led to a need for web site designers to accommodate a wider range of client platforms and capabilities. Several approaches for transparently ...

    • An Adaptive Web-Based Learning Environment 

      Angelakis, George (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)
      In recent years enormous progress has been made in World Wide Web technologies. This is making the web an even more promising way to deliver educational material. New Technology, integrated with experiential education, can ...

    • Quartz: A QoS Architecture for Open Systems 

      Siqueira, Frank (University of Dublin, Trinity College. Department of Computer Science, 1999-12)
      The term `QoS architecture? is used to describe middleware that provides applications with mechanisms for specification and enforcement of quality of service (QoS) requirements. These architectures administer the resources ...

    • Cryptographic Access Control for a Network File System 

      Harrington, Anthony (2001-09)
      The rapid growth of mobile computing and the deployment of large distributed systems which span multiple administrative domains has created new challenges for security systems. Changing usage patterns and the physical ...

    • Using Dynamic Proxies to Support RMI in a Mobile Environment 

      Biegel, Gregory (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2001-09)
      The emergence of small, mobile computing devices such as personal digital assistants and cellular telephones has been driven by advances in computing and wireless communication technologies. The development of distributed ...

    • An Evaluation of AOP for Java-based Real-time Systems Development 

      Tsang, Shiu Lun (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      Advances in programming language have improved the software developer?s ability to achieve separation of concerns (SOC). Although object-oriented (OO) technology offers greater ability than previous language paradigms ...

    • An Implementation and Evaluation of the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol for Windows CE 

      West, David (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      There are a number of implementations of the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol available for the Linux platform, but not for any other platform. Development of ad-hoc routing protocols has been slow ...

    • A Flexible, Scalable, Distributed, Fault Tolerant Architecture for the Collection and Dissemination of Multimodal Traffic-Related Information 

      Olias-Sanz, Alfonso (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) produce considerable quantities of dynamic data. ITS endusers will require wide, rich and highly available services which will involve processing and disseminating large amount ...

    • A Web Services Framework for Mobile Payment Services 

      McKitterick, David (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      Next generation mobile services are readily emerging into the mainstream services market and this growth is dependent on mobile technologies and their support infrastructure. 2.5G and 3G mobile technologies presently are ...

    • Consistency Maintenance Framework For Collaborative Software Modeling Tools 

      Lozano, Marta (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      The globalization of companies and business, and the improvements in communication and computing have lead to the need of new models of collaborative work. Real-time collaborative editing systems are included in the field ...

    • Adaptive Ontology-Driven Personalised News Services 

      Tallon, Shane (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)
      Ontologically Driven Adaptation is a challenging field within the area of Personalised News. Ontologies provide a structured, semantically rich methodology for the modelling of a domain. Personalised News is an area of ...

    • Automated Reconciliation for Disconnected Operation in Object Oriented Middleware 

      Zavislak, Jason (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)
      Modern distributed computing systems are no longer constrained to fixed, wired networks. Many computers have gained the ability to move within a network and operate across wireless links. Such mobile computing devices often ...

    • Decentralized Authorization for Web Services 

      Stefas, Paraskevas (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)
      Web Services is an area that encountered a very sudden and huge explosion on its popularity during the latest years. The advantages Web Services provide compared to traditional distributed computing methods such as Remote ...

    • Using Fluid Models for AQM Evaluation 

      Taillard, Boris (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)
      In spite of the congestion management mechanisms included in the TCP/IP protocol, the Internet still suffers from a lack of optimization in the way network overload is managed. One of the reasons for this is that the ...

    • Design and Initial Implementation of a Distributed XML Database 

      Pagnamenta, Francesco (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)
      Techniques for distributed relational database systems have been well researched and developed. This is unsurprising given that the relational database model itself has been in development since the early 1970s. In recent ...

    • An Advanced Appliance Interaction Architecture 

      O'Sullivan, Darragh (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)
      In the future, the ability to monitor and control home appliances over the Internet could become one of the conveniences that we wonder how we ever managed without. Also, the ability to interact with networked appliances ...