We observe that existing methods for failure-tolerance are inefficient in their use of time, storage and computational resources. We aim to harness the power of idle desktop computers for data-parallel computations, which are particularly sensitive to failure, and propose spreadspectrum computation as a suite of techniques to mitigate failures in an internet-scale distributed system. Spread-spe...

D spread spectrum (DSSS) and frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) technologies have different physical mechanisms for rejecting narrowband interference. Because of these physical differences, they perform differently in the presence of the same levels of narrowband interference. This is an important case for successful operation in the ISM bands. After presenting the physical mechanisms by ...

In this paper, we present a new method of digital steganography, entitled spread spectrum image steganography (SSIS). Steganography, which means "covered writing" in Greek, is the science of communicating in a hidden manner. Following a discussion of steganographic communication theory and review of existing techniques, the new method, SSIS, is introduced. This system hides and recovers a messa...

A method for constructing spread spectrum sequences is presented. The method is based on a linear, orthogonal, symmetric transform, the Rudin-Shapiro transform (RST), which is in many respects quite similar to the Haar wavelet packet transform. The RST provides the means for generating large sets of spread spectrum signals. This presentation provides a simple definition of the symmetric RST tha...