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Scalable and Reliable Middlebox Deployment
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)Middleboxes are pervasive in modern computer networks providing functionalities beyond mere packet forwarding. Load balancers, intrusion detection systems, and network address translators are typical examples of middleboxes. ... -
Scalable Context-Sensitive Pointer Analysis for LLVM
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-13)Pointer analysis is indispensable for effectively verifying heap-manipulating programs. Even though it has been studied extensively, there are no publicly available pointer analyses for low-level languages that are ... -
Scalable Embeddings for Kernel Clustering on MapReduce
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-18)There is an increasing demand from businesses and industries to make the best use of their data. Clustering is a powerful tool for discovering natural groupings in data. The k-means algorithm is the most commonly-used data ... -
Scalable Emulator for Software Defined Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2015-03-30)Since its inception, Software Defined Network (SDN) has made itself a very appealing architecture for both Data Center and Wide Area networks by offering more automated control through programmability and simplified network ... -
Scalable Human-Machine Interaction System for Real-Time Care in the Internet of Health Things
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)The rise in numbers of individuals with weak immunity around the world and the aging of populations put an ever-growing pressure on healthcare and inevitably increases its cost. This phenomenon leads to larger portions of ... -
Scalable image segmentation via decoupled sub-graph compression
(Elsevier, 2018-06-01)Dealing with large images is an on-going challenge in image segmentation, where many of the current methods run into computational and/or memory complexity issues. This work presents a novel decoupled sub-graph compression ... -
Scalable Informative Rule Mining
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-10)In this thesis we present SIRUM: a system for Scalable Informative RUle Mining from multi-dimensional data. Informative rules have recently been studied in several contexts, including data summarization, data cube exploration ... -
A Scalable Method for Many Object Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-10)Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) Simulations are an important technology in many areas of research, including, but not limited to, Computer Graphics, Computational Physics and Engineering. This area is concerned with the ... -
Scalable Multiple Description Coding and Distributed Video Streaming over 3G Mobile Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2003)In this thesis, a novel Scalable Multiple Description Coding (SMDC) framework is proposed. To address the bandwidth fluctuation, packet loss and heterogeneity problems in the wireless networks and further enhance the ... -
Scalable Nearest Neighbor Search with Compact Codes
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-19)An important characteristic of the recent decade is the dramatic growth in the use and generation of data. From collections of images, documents and videos, to genetic data, and to network traffic statistics, modern ... -
A Scalable Partial-Order Data Structure for Distributed-System Observation
(University of Waterloo, 2001)Distributed-system observation is foundational to understanding and controlling distributed computations. Existing tools for distributed-system observation are constrained in the size of computation that they can observe ... -
A Scalable Recoverable Skip List for Persistent Memory on NUMA Machines
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-20)Interest in recoverable, persistent-memory-resident (PMEM-resident) data structures is growing as availability of Intel Optane Data Center Persistent Memory increases. An interesting use case for in-memory, recoverable ... -
Scalable Scientific Computing Algorithms Using MapReduce
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Cloud computing systems, like MapReduce and Pregel, provide a scalable and fault tolerant environment for running computations at massive scale. However, these systems are designed primarily for data intensive computational ... -
Scalable Surfaces for Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-31)The idea of collecting electromagnetic (EM) energy and converting it into various forms of useful power dates back to the early 20th century. Nikola Tesla's wireless power transfer experiments demonstrated the concept ... -
Scalable Synthesis of Less-Toxic Colloidal Copper Indium Sulfide Quantum Dots and Application to Optoelectronic Device Architectures
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-15)The consequences of mankind’s extravagant energy consumption has loomed over humanity for much of the twenty-first century. As societies realize the increasing urgency of transitioning to renewable energy sources, solar ... -
Scalable Topic Detection Approaches fromTwitter Streams
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-29)Real time topic detection in Twitter streams is an important task that helps discovering natural disasters in a real time from users’ posts and helps political parties and companies understand users’ opinions and needs. ... -
A Scalable, Secure, and Energy-Efficient Image Representation for Wireless Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The recent growth in wireless communications presents a new challenge to multimedia communications. Digital image transmission is a very common form of multimedia communication. Due to limited bandwidth and broadcast ... -
Scale-dependent anisotropy in forced stratified turbulence
(American Physical Society, 2019-04)In stratified turbulence, buoyancy forces inhibit vertical motion and lead to anisotropy over a wide range of length scales, which is characterized by layerwise pancake vortices, thin regions of strong shear, and patches ... -
Scaling Forest Conservation: Strategic Agency and Systems Change in the Great Bear Rainforest and Canadian Boreal Forest Agreements
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-20)Transitioning resource industries towards sustainability poses system-wide innovation challenges. This manuscript-style dissertation analyzes two cases of Canadian forest sector innovation, the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement ... -
Scaling Laws for Vehicular Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-29)Equipping automobiles with wireless communications and networking capabilities is becoming the frontier in the evolution to the next generation intelligent transportation systems (ITS). By means of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) ...