Liang Zhou

Energy efficient virtual machine consolidation in mobile media cloud

2015

Recently, attracted by the abundant computation and networking resources in the cloud, an increased number of mobile media services have been hosted by the cloud computing platforms. These mobile media clouds (MMCs) run hundreds of …

Cost and Actual Causation

2017 · arXiv (Cornell University)

I propose the purpose our concept of actual causation serves is minimizing various cost in intervention practice. Actual causation has three features: nonredundant sufficiency, continuity and abnormality; these features correspond to the minimization of exploitative …

Secure dynamic authentication of passive assets and passive IoTs using self-powered timers

2017

A major limitation in authenticating passive and remotely powered sensors, tags and cards (for e.g. radio-frequency identification tags or credit cards) is that these devices do not have access to a continuously running system clock. …