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  • A machine learning based Distributed Congestion Control Protocol for multi-hop wireless networks 

    Astudillo Leon, Juan Pablo; Cruz Llopis, Luis Javier de la; Rico Novella, Francisco José (2023-07-01)
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    Open Access
    The application areas of multi-hop wireless networks are expected to experience sustained growth in the next years. This growth will be further supported by the current possibility of providing low-cost communication ...
  • Privacy-centered authentication: a new framework and analysis 

    Robles González, Antonio; Arias Cabarcos, Patricia; Parra Arnau, Javier (2023-09)
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    Open Access
    The usage of authentication schemes is increasing in our daily life with the ubiquitous spreading Internet services. The verification of user’s identity is still predominantly password-based, despite of being susceptible ...
  • SoK: differentially private publication of trajectory data 

    Miranda Pascual, Àlex; Guerra Balboa, Patricia; Parra Arnau, Javier; Forné Muñoz, Jorge; Strufe, Thorsten (2023-04)
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    Open Access
    Trajectory analysis holds many promises, from improvements in traffic management to routing advice or infrastructure development. However, learning users’ paths is extremely privacy-invasive. Therefore, there is a necessity ...
  • Fine-grained control over tracking to support the ad-based web economy 

    Achara, Jagdish Prasad; Parra Arnau, Javier; Castelluccia, Claude (2018-09-30)
    Article
    Open Access
    The intrusiveness of Web tracking and the increasing invasiveness of digital advertising have raised serious concerns regarding user privacy and Web usability, leading a substantial chunk of the populace to adopt ad-blocking ...
  • MyAdChoices: bringing transparency and control to online advertising 

    Parra Arnau, Javier; Achara, Jagdish Prasad; Castelluccia, Claude (2017-03)
    Article
    Open Access
    The intrusiveness and the increasing invasiveness of online advertising have, in the last few years, raised serious concerns regarding user privacy and Web usability. As a reaction to these concerns, we have witnessed the ...
  • On the cost-effectiveness of mass surveillance 

    Parra Arnau, Javier; Castelluccia, Claude (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-08)
    Article
    Open Access
    In recent times, we have witnessed an increasing concern by governments and intelligence agencies to deploy mass-surveillance systems that help them fight terrorism. Although a government may be perfectly legitimate to do ...
  • Differentially private data publishing via cross-moment microaggregation 

    Parra Arnau, Javier; Domingo Ferrer, Josep; Soria Comas, Jordi (Elsevier, 2020-01)
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    Open Access
    Differential privacy is one of the most prominent privacy notions in the field of anonymization. However, its strong privacy guarantees very often come at the expense of significantly degrading the utility of the protected ...
  • Differentially private publication of database streams via hybrid video coding 

    Parra Arnau, Javier; Strufe, Thorsten; Domingo Ferrer, Josep (2022-07-08)
    Article
    Open Access
    While most anonymization technology available today is designed for static and small data, the current picture is of massive volumes of dynamic data arriving at unprecedented velocities. From the standpoint of anonymization, ...
  • On the privacy–utility trade-off in differentially private hierarchical text classification 

    Wunderlich, Dominik; Bernau, Daniel; Aldà, Francesco; Parra Arnau, Javier; Strufe, Thorsten (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022-11-04)
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    Open Access
    Hierarchical text classification consists of classifying text documents into a hierarchy of classes and sub-classes. Although Artificial Neural Networks have proved useful to perform this task, unfortunately, they can leak ...
  • Technology, computation and artificial intelligence to improve the web ecosystem 

    Ruipérez Valiente, José A.; Parra Arnau, Javier; Forné Muñoz, Jorge (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022-12-07)
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    Open Access
  • An adversarial-risk-analysis approach to counterterrorist online surveillance 

    Gil Espinasa, César; Parra Arnau, Javier (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019-01-24)
    Article
    Open Access
    The Internet, with the rise of the IoT, is one of the most powerful means of propagating a terrorist threat, and at the same time the perfect environment for deploying ubiquitous online surveillance systems.This paper ...
  • G-3MRP: a game-theoretical multimedia multimetric map-aware routing1 protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks 

    Mohamad Mezher, Ahmad; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica (2022-08-04)
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    Open Access
    The particular requirements and special features of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) (e.g., special mo8 bility patterns, short link lifetimes, rapid topology changes) involve challenges for the research community. 9 One ...

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