tel aviv university

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Active XML, Security and Access Control

XML and Web services are revolutioning the automatic management of distributed information, somewhat in the same way that HTML, Web browsers and search engines modified human access to world wide information. This paper argues that the combination of XML and Web services allows for a novel distributed data management paradigm,...

Tags: Security, Web, Web Service, Access Control, Tel Aviv University, Data Management, XML, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-01-01

A Simulation Study of Multi-Color Marking of TCP Aggregates

Service Level Agreements SLAs are contracts signed between a provider and a customer to govern the amount of traffic that will be serviced. This work pinpoints an important problem faced by the Internet Service Provider ISP which is to be able to differentiate between the services given to aggregates of...

Tags: SLA, TCP, Tel Aviv University, Tcp/Ip, Service Level Management, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, It Operations, It service Management, Internet

White papers 2007-07-17

EDOS Distribution System: A P2P Architecture for Open-Source Content Dissemination

The open-source software communities currently face an increasing complexity of managing the software content among theirs developers and contributors. This is mainly due to the continuously growing size of the software, the high frequency of the updates, and the heterogeneity of the participants. The paper proposes a distribution system that...

Tags: Information System, System Architecture, Dissemination, P2P, Open-source Software, Tel Aviv University, Web Technology, Tools & Techniques, Peer To Peer (P2P), Content Management, Open Source, Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-02-28

Geographical Statistics and Characteristics of P2P Query Strings

P2P file-sharing applications are quickly being adopted by a wider and more mainstream audience. There is much to be learned from keyword searches users perform in order to retrieve content from these networks. This paper presents a large-scale measurement study of search terms in the modern Gnutella network. This paper...

Tags: Gnutella, Network, P2P, File-sharing, Tel Aviv University, P2P File-sharing Application, Peer To Peer (P2P), Networking, Internet

White papers 2007-01-23

Optimizing TCP Retransmission Timeout

Delay spikes on Internet paths can cause spurious TCP timeouts leading to significant throughput degradation. However, if TCP is too slow to detect that a retransmission is necessary, it can stay idle for a long time instead of transmitting. The goal is to find a Retransmission Timeout RTO value that...

Tags: TCP, Tel Aviv University, Tcp/Ip, Networking

White papers 2005-02-05

Cracking the Bluetooth PIN

This paper describes the implementation of an attack on the Bluetooth security mechanism. Specifically, it describes a passive attack, in which an attacker can find the PIN used during the pairing process. The paper then describes the cracking speed one can achieve through three optimizations methods. The fastest optimization employs...

Tags: Intel Pentium, Attack, Tel Aviv University, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Processors, Security, Wireless, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers

Additional Resources

Your computer as your singing coach

Israeli researchers have developed an electronic ear to coach vibrato technique. Until now, the quality of a vibrato -- the pulsating change of pitch in a singer's voice -- could only be judged by voice experts. Now, a Tel Aviv University research team 'has successfully managed to train a computer...

Tags: Researcher, Quality, Teacher, Computer, TAU, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-05

Women's attractiveness judged by software

According to Haaretz, an Israeli team of computer scientists has developed a software that ranks facial attractiveness of women. Instead of identifying basic facial characteristics, this software has been designed to make aesthetic judgments -- after training. The lead researcher said this program 'constitutes a substantial advance in the development...

Tags: Software, Face, Symmetry, Researcher, Women, Image, Computer, Haaretz, Gender And Diversity, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-31

New study shows parents clueless, kids just as bad

A new study out of Israel on parent perceptions of their kids' online activities shows a real need for education at both the parental and child levels. A new Tel Aviv University research study has found that, despite what parents might believe, there is an enormous gap...

Tags: Children, Parent, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-02-06

A 'beauty function' for a better look

Computer scientists have already tried to digitally enhance our images. Today, lets look at the Beauty Function developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University TAU and who promise a more beautiful you. Their program was based on a survey of 300 men and women who were asked to rank pictures...

Tags: Computers &, Internet, Engineering &, Innovation, Leisure, Beauty Function, Karin Kloosterman, Tommer Leyvand

Blog posts 2007-02-07

Mixing brain cells and nanodots

It's not the first time that animal brain cells have been used in conjunction with nanoparticles. But now, a team of Israeli researchers has grown self-organizing networks of rat brain cells by binding them to carbon nanotubes. In a short article, New Scientist reports that these neural networks are remarkably...

Tags: cell, nanotube, network

Blog posts 2006-06-24

Better 'robot manipulators'

According to this news release from Purdue University, civil engineers, who deal with statics, and mechanical engineers, who deal with kinematics, have unified their efforts to create dual theorems which combine the mathematics of both kinematics and statics. In other words, they've shown that these concepts are in fact analogous....

Tags: robot

Blog posts 2006-01-12