Dziembowski, Pietrzak, and Wichs (ICS–2010) introduced the notion of non-malleable codes as a relaxation of the error-correcting codes. Intuitively, a non-malleable code ensures that the tampered codeword encodes the original message or a message that is entirely independent of the original message. One of the fundamental research directions in the field of non-malleable code construction consi...

The previously published procedure for calculation of rate constants associated with the death of microbial cells is shown to be so sensitive to variation in experimental data as to render it impractical for this application. The only obvious modification to the published procedure met with only limited success. It is concluded that a fresh search should be undertaken for the solution to this f...

There is a great deal of interest in the use of nanostructured heterogeneous catalysts, particularly those based on expensive precious metals, in order to maximise the surface to volume ratio of the catalyst, potentially reducing the cost without sacrificing performance. When there is an abundance of reactants available, the effective reactivity will depend on the surface density of the catalyt...

A binary symmetric channel (BSC) is a noisy communication channel that flips each bit independently with some fixed error probability 0 < p < 1/2. Crépeau and Kilian (FOCS 1988) showed that oblivious transfer, and hence general secure two-party computation, can be unconditionally realized by communicating over a BSC. There has been a long line of works on improving the efficiency and generality...

With the initial design of WEBRC, as described in the -00 and -01 IETF RMT building block drafts [1, 2], the server output rate varies in time with period TSD (recommended to be 10 seconds). The variation is quite significant; when the recommended multiplicative decrease value P = 0.75 is used, it causes the average output rate to be at least 13.1% less than the peak rate. This document describ...

The TEN-34 network delivers today stable highspeed networking services to the European R&D community. At the same time research into more advanced backbone technologies is being carried out with the goal of making more sophisticated services such as bandwidth on demand available on the TEN-34 network. This paper describes the first phase of the experiments on advanced backbone technologies. A s...

We consider probability distributions with constant rate on partially ordered sets, generalizing distributions in the usual reliability setting 0,∞ ,≤ that have constant failure rate. In spite of the minimal algebraic structure, there is a surprisingly rich theory, including moment results and results concerning ladder variables and point processes. We concentrate mostly on discrete posets, par...

One of the most fundamental tasks in sensor networks is the computation of a (compressible) aggregation function of the input measurements. What rate of computation can be maintained, by properly choosing the aggregation tree, the TDMA schedule of the tree edges, and the transmission powers? This can be viewed as the convergecast capacity of a wireless network. We show here that the optimal rat...

Controlling the topology of a wireless ad hoc network is very important from the point of view of performance. One known technique for controlling the topology is through the assignment of appropriate transmission power levels to the nodes. Such an assignment aims to minimize a specified function of the powers assigned to nodes. While this problem has been widely studied for the case of station...