Conference papers

Demonstrating the Practicality of Unikernels to Build a Serverless Platform at the Edge

The rise of IoT has led to large volumes of personal data being produced at the network’s edge. Most IoT applications process data in the cloud raising concerns over privacy and …

c-mistry
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ProvMark: A Provenance Expressiveness Benchmarking System

System level provenance is of widespread interest for applications such as security enforcement and information protection. However, testing the correctness or completeness of …

s-c-chan
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From Here to Provtopia

Valuable, sensitive, and regulated data flow freely through distributed governing the collection, use, and management of such data? We claim that distributed data provenance, the …

t-pasquier
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Towards Seamless Configuration Tuning of Big Data Analytics

The execution of distributed data processing workloads (such as those running on top of Hadoop or Spark) in cloud environments presents a unique opportunity to explore multiple …

a-fekry
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Runtime Analysis of Whole-System Provenance

Identifying the root cause and impact of a system intrusion remains a foundational challenge in computer security. Digital provenance provides a detailed history of the flow of …

t-pasquier
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Provenance-based Intrusion Detection: Opportunities and Challenges

Intrusion detection is an arms race; attackers evade intrusion detection systems by developing new attack vectors to sidestep known defense mechanisms. Provenance provides a …

x-han
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Practical Whole-System Provenance Capture

Data provenance describes how data came to be in its present form. It includes data sources and the transformations that have been applied to them. Data provenance has many uses, …

t-pasquier
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FRAPpuccino: Fault-detection through Runtime Analysis of Provenance

We present FRAPpuccino (or FRAP), a provenance-based fault detection mechanism for Platform as a Service (PaaS) users, who run many instances of an application on a large cluster …

x-han
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PHP2Uni: Building Unikernels using Scripting Language Transpilation

Unikernels are a rapidly emerging technology in the world of cloud computing. Unikernels build on research on library operating systems to deliver smaller, faster and more secure …

t-pasquier
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Big Ideas paper: Policy-driven middleware for a legally-compliant Internet of Things

Internet of Things (IoT) applications, systems and services are subject to law. We argue that for the IoT to develop lawfully, there must be technical mechanisms that allow the …

j-singh
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