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View article: Images as Portable Objects in the Historian's Toolkit
Images as Portable Objects in the Historian's Toolkit Open
The image on the cover of this issue of Technology and Culture features an early modern Indian textile, popularly known as "chintz" in the Western world. The image depicts stylized flowers surrounded by curving leaves on meandering branche…
View article: Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse
Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse Open
The Fediverse, a group of interconnected servers providing a variety of interoperable services (e.g. micro-blogging in Mastodon) has gained rapid popularity. This sudden growth, partly driven by Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, has crea…
View article: Understanding and Improving Content Moderation in Web3 Platforms
Understanding and Improving Content Moderation in Web3 Platforms Open
There have been numerous recent attempts to “decentralize” social media platforms, loosely referred to as Web3. Such ideas, often underpinned by blockchain solutions, offer decentralized equivalents of well-known services (e.g., forums, so…
View article: Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-Based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse
Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-Based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse Open
The recent development of decentralised and interoperable social networks (such as the "fediverse") creates new challenges for content moderators. This is because millions of posts generated on one server can easily "spread" to another, ev…
View article: Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse
Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse Open
The recent development of decentralised and interoperable social networks (such as the "fediverse") creates new challenges for content moderators. This is because millions of posts generated on one server can easily "spread" to another, ev…
View article: Dissecting the Performance of Satellite Network Operators
Dissecting the Performance of Satellite Network Operators Open
The rapid growth of satellite network operators (SNOs) has revolutionized broadband communications, enabling global connectivity and bridging the digital divide. As these networks expand, it is important to evaluate their performance and e…
View article: T3P: Demystifying Low-Earth Orbit Satellite Broadband
T3P: Demystifying Low-Earth Orbit Satellite Broadband Open
The Internet is going through a massive infrastructural revolution with the advent of low-flying satellite networks, 5/6G, WiFi7, and hollow-core fiber deployments. While these networks could unleash enhanced connectivity and new capabilit…
View article: Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse
Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse Open
As an alternative to Twitter and other centralized social networks, the\nFediverse is growing in popularity. The recent, and polemical, takeover of\nTwitter by Elon Musk has exacerbated this trend. The Fediverse includes a\ngrowing number …
View article: Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration
Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration Open
The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk has spurred controversy and uncertainty among Twitter users. The move raised as many praises as concerns, particularly regarding Musk's views on free speech. As a result, a large number of Twitter us…
View article: Scheduling Inference Workloads on Distributed Edge Clusters with Reinforcement Learning
Scheduling Inference Workloads on Distributed Edge Clusters with Reinforcement Learning Open
Many real-time applications (e.g., Augmented/Virtual Reality, cognitive assistance) rely on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to process inference tasks. Edge computing is considered a key infrastructure to deploy such applications, as moving co…
View article: Design and evaluation of IPFS
Design and evaluation of IPFS Open
Recent years have witnessed growing consolidation of web operations. For example, the majority of web traffic now originates from a few organizations, and even micro-websites often choose to host on large pre-existing cloud infrastructures…
View article: Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing Open
The "Decentralised Web" (DW) is an evolving concept, which encompasses technologies aimed at providing greater transparency and openness on the web. The DW relies on independent servers (aka instances) that mesh together in a peer-to-peer …
View article: Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing Open
The "Decentralised Web" (DW) is an evolving concept, which encompasses technologies aimed at providing greater transparency and openness on the web. The DW relies on independent servers (aka instances) that mesh together in a peer-to-peer …
View article: Jettisoning Junk Messaging in the Era of End-to-End Encryption: A Case Study of WhatsApp
Jettisoning Junk Messaging in the Era of End-to-End Encryption: A Case Study of WhatsApp Open
WhatsApp is a popular messaging app used by over a billion users around the globe. Due to this popularity, understanding misbehavior on WhatsApp is an important issue. The sending of unwanted junk messages by unknown contacts via WhatsApp …
View article: DSM-MoC as Baseline: Reliability Assurance via Redundant Cellular Connectivity in Connected Cars
DSM-MoC as Baseline: Reliability Assurance via Redundant Cellular Connectivity in Connected Cars Open
Connected Cars (CCs) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) use cases require\nstringent reliability for safety and non-safety uses. With increasing network\nsoftwarisation, it has become easier to use multiple, redundant connectivity\noptions in…
View article: Exploring content moderation in the decentralised web
Exploring content moderation in the decentralised web Open
Decentralising the Web is a desirable but challenging goal. One particular challenge is achieving decentralised content moderation in the face of various adversaries (e.g. trolls). To overcome this challenge, many Decentralised Web (DW) im…
View article: Cloud for Holography and Augmented Reality
Cloud for Holography and Augmented Reality Open
The paper introduces the CHARITY framework, a novel framework which aspires to leverage the benefits of intelligent, network continuum autonomous orchestration of cloud, edge, and network resources, to create a symbiotic relationship betwe…
View article: Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case
Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case Open
Decentralising the Web is a desirable but challenging goal. One particular challenge is achieving decentralised content moderation in the face of various adversaries (e.g. trolls). To overcome this challenge, many Decentralised Web (DW) im…
View article: Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case
Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case Open
Decentralising the Web is a desirable but challenging goal. One particular challenge is achieving decentralised content moderation in the face of various adversaries (e.g. trolls). To overcome this challenge, many Decentralised Web (DW) im…
View article: 360NorVic
360NorVic Open
Streaming 360{\\deg} video demands high bandwidth and low latency, and poses\nsignificant challenges to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Mobile Network\nOperators (MNOs). The identification of 360{\\deg} video traffic can therefore\nb…
View article: Tackling spam in the era of end-to-end encryption: A case study of WhatsApp.
Tackling spam in the era of end-to-end encryption: A case study of WhatsApp. Open
WhatsApp is a popular messaging app used by over a billion users around the globe. Due to this popularity, spam on WhatsApp is an important issue. Despite this, the distribution of spam via WhatsApp remains understudied by researchers, in …
View article: Jettisoning Junk Messaging in the Era of End-to-End Encryption: A Case Study of WhatsApp
Jettisoning Junk Messaging in the Era of End-to-End Encryption: A Case Study of WhatsApp Open
WhatsApp is a popular messaging app used by over a billion users around the globe. Due to this popularity, understanding misbehavior on WhatsApp is an important issue. The sending of unwanted junk messages by unknown contacts via WhatsApp …
View article: Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case
Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case Open
The Decentralised Web (DW) has recently seen a renewed momentum, with a number of DW platforms like Mastodon, Peer-Tube, and Hubzilla gaining increasing traction. These offer alternatives to traditional social networks like Twitter, YouTub…
View article: Consume Local: Towards Carbon Free Content Delivery
Consume Local: Towards Carbon Free Content Delivery Open
P2P sharing amongst consumers has been proposed as a way to decrease load on Content Delivery Networks. This paper develops an analytical model that shows an additional benefit of sharing content locally: Selecting close by peers to share …
View article: Facebook (A)Live? Are live social broadcasts really broadcasts?
Facebook (A)Live? Are live social broadcasts really broadcasts? Open
The era of live-broadcast is back but with two major changes. First, unlike traditional TV broadcasts, content is now streamed over the Internet enabling it to reach a wider audience. Second, due to various user-generated content platforms…
View article: Facebook (A)Live?
Facebook (A)Live? Open
The era of live-broadcast is back but with two major changes. First, unlike traditional TV broadcasts, content is now streamed over the Internet enabling it to reach a wider audience. Second, due to various user-generated content platforms…
View article: Wi-Stitch
Wi-Stitch Open
Wi-Fi, the most commonly used access technology at the very edge, supports download speeds that are orders of magnitude faster than the average home broadband or cellular data connection. Furthermore, it is extremely common for users to be…