FM Backscatter: Enabling connected cities and smart fabrics

April 28, 2017November 11, 2019 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 4 Comments

FM Backscatter: Enabling connected cities and smart fabrics Wang et al., NSDI'17 If we want to connect all the things, then we need a means of sending and/or receiving information at each thing. These transmissions require power, and no-one wants to have to plug in chargers or keep swapping batteries for endless everyday objects. So ... Continue Reading

ViewMap: Sharing private in-vehicle dashcam videos

April 27, 2017November 11, 2019 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ Leave a comment

ViewMap: Sharing private in-vehicle dashcam videos Kim et al., NSDI'17 In the world of sensor-laden connected cars that we're rushing towards, ViewMap addresses an interesting question: how can we use the information collected by those cars for common good, without significant invasion of privacy? It raises deeper questions too about the limits of state surveillance ... Continue Reading

Improving user perceived page load time using gaze

April 26, 2017November 11, 2019 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

Improving user perceived page load time using gaze Kelton, Ryoo, et al., NSDI 2017 I feel like I'm stretching things a little bit including this paper in an IoT flavoured week, but it does use at least bridge from the physical world to the virtual, if only via a webcam. What's really interesting here to ... Continue Reading

FarmBeats: An IoT platform for data-driven agriculture

April 25, 2017November 11, 2019 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ Leave a comment

FarmBeats: An IoT platform for data-driven agriculture Vasisht et al., NSDI '17 Today we have another pragmatic, low cost, IoT system case study. And it's addressing a problem almost as important as cricket: how can we help to meet the burgeoning demand for food across the globe by increasing farm productivity? [Just in case British ... Continue Reading

Bringing IoT to sports analytics

April 24, 2017November 11, 2019 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 12 Comments

Bringing IoT to sports analytics Gowda et al., NSDI 17 Welcome back to the summer term of #themorningpaper! To kick things off, we'll be looking at a selection of papers from last month's NSDI'17 conference. We haven't looked at an IoT paper for a while, and this one happens to be about cricket - how ... Continue Reading

End of term, and thank you to the ACM

April 10, 2017November 11, 2019 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 5 Comments

We've reached the end of term again, and The Morning Paper will be taking a two week break to recharge my batteries and my paper backlog! We covered a lot of ground over the last few months, and I've selected a few highlighted papers/posts at the end of this piece to tide you over until ... Continue Reading

SGXIO: Generic trusted I/O path for Intel SGX

April 7, 2017November 11, 2019 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

SGXIO: Generic trusted I/O path for Intel SGX Weiser & Werner, CODASPY '17 Intel's SGX provides hardware-secured enclaves for trusted execution of applications in an untrusted environment. Previously we've looked at Haven, which uses SGX in the context of cloud infrastructure, SCONE which shows how to run docker containers under SGX, and Panoply which looks at ... Continue Reading

Detecting ROP with statistical learning of program characteristics

April 6, 2017November 11, 2019 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 5 Comments

Detecting ROP with statistical learning of program characteristics Elsabagh et al., CODASPY '17 Return-oriented programming (ROP) attacks work by finding short instruction sequences in a process' executable memory (called gadgets) and chaining them together to achieve some goal of the attacker. For a quick introduction to ROP, see "The geometry of innocent flesh on the ... Continue Reading

The curious case of the PDF converter that likes Mozart

April 5, 2017November 11, 2019 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 6 Comments

The curious case of the PDF converter that likes Mozart: dissecting and mitigating the privacy risk of personal cloud apps Harkous et al., PoPET '16 This is the paper that preceded "If you can't beat them, join them" we looked at yesterday, and well worth interrupting our coverage of CODASPY '17 for. Harkous et al., ... Continue Reading

If you can’t beat them, join them: a usability approach to interdependent privacy in cloud apps

April 4, 2017November 11, 2019 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

If you can't beat them, join them: a usability approach to interdependent privacy in cloud apps Harkous & Aberer, CODASPY '17 I'm quite used to thinking carefully about permissions before installing a Chrome browser extensions (they all seem to want permission to see absolutely everything - no thank you!). A similar issue comes up with ... Continue Reading

the morning paper

a random walk through Computer Science research, by Adrian Colyer
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Month: April 2017