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The Mason Test: A Defense Against Sybil Attacks in Wireless Networks Without Trusted Authorities
Wireless networks are vulnerable to Sybil attacks, in which a malicious node
poses as many identities in order to gain disproportionate influence. Many
defenses based on spatial variability of wireless channels exist, but depend
either on detailed, multi-tap channel estimation - something not exposed on
commodity 802.11 devices - or valid RSSI observations from multiple trusted
sources, e.g., corporate access points - something not directly available in ad
hoc and delay-tolerant networks with potentially malicious neighbors. We extend
these techniques to be practical for wireless ad hoc networks of commodity
802.11 devices. Specifically, we propose two efficient methods for separating
the valid RSSI observations of behaving nodes from those falsified by malicious
participants. Further, we note that prior signalprint methods are easily
defeated by mobile attackers and develop an appropriate challenge-response
defense. Finally, we present the Mason test, the first implementation of these
techniques for ad hoc and delay-tolerant networks of commodity 802.11 devices.
We illustrate its performance in several real-world scenarios
Vibrations of micro-eV energies in nanocrystalline microstructures
The phonon density of states of nanocrystalline bcc Fe and nanocrystalline fcc Ni3Fe were measured by inelastic neutron scattering in two different ranges of energy. As has been reported previously, the nanocrystalline materials showed enhancements in their phonon density of states at energies from 2 to 15 meV, compared to control samples composed of large crystals. The present measurements were extended to energies in the micro-eV range, and showed significant, but smaller, enhancements in the number of modes in the energy range from 5 to 18 mueV. These modes of micro-eV energies provide a long-wavelength limit that bounds the fraction of modes at milli-eV energies originating with the cooperative dynamics of the nanocrystalline microstructure
Exact solution of the lattice vertex model analog of the coupled Bariev XY chains
We present the algebraic Bethe Ansatz solution for the vertex model recently
proposed by Zhou as the classical analog of the Bariev interacting XY chains.
The relevant commutation rules between the creation fields contain the Hecke
symmetry pointed out recently by Hikami and Murakami. The eigenvalues of the
corresponding transfer matrix are explicitly given.Comment: Plain latex, 8 pag
Multi-Atomic Mirror for Perfect Reflection of Single Photons in A Wide Band of Frequency
A resonant two level atom doped in one dimensional waveguide behaves as a
mirror, but this single-atom "mirror" can only reflect single photon perfectly
at a specific frequency. For a one dimensional coupled-resonator waveguide, we
propose to extend the perfect reflection region from a specific frequency to a
wide band by placing many atoms individually in the resonators in a finite
coordinate region of the waveguide. Such a doped resonator array promises us to
control the propagation of a practical photon wave packet with certain momentum
distribution instead of a single photon, which is ideally represented by a
plane wave with specific momentum. The studies based on the discrete-coordinate
scattering theory display that such hybrid structure indeed provides a
near-perfect reflection for single photon in a wide band. We also calculated
photon group velocity distribution, which shows that the perfect reflection
with wide band exactly corresponds to the stopping light region.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figure
Non-additive fusion, Hubbard models and non-locality
In the framework of quantum groups and additive R-matrices, the fusion
procedure allows to construct higher-dimensional solutions of the Yang-Baxter
equation. These solutions lead to integrable one-dimensional spin-chain
Hamiltonians. Here fusion is shown to generalize naturally to non-additive
R-matrices, which therefore do not have a quantum group symmetry. This method
is then applied to the generalized Hubbard models. Although the resulting
integrable models are not as simple as the starting ones, the general structure
is that of two spin-(s times s') sl(2) models coupled at the free-fermion
point. An important issue is the probable lack of regular points which give
local Hamiltonians. This problem is related to the existence of second order
zeroes in the unitarity equation, and arises for the XX models of higher spins,
the building blocks of the Hubbard models. A possible connection between some
Lax operators L and R-matrices is noted.Comment: 14 pages, Latex. A remark added in section 2, four typos correcte
Global synchronization for delayed complex networks with randomly occurring nonlinearities and multiple stochastic disturbances
This is the post print version of the article. The official published version can be obained from the link - Copyright 2009 IOP Publishing LtdThis paper is concerned with the synchronization problem for a new class of continuous time delayed complex networks with stochastic nonlinearities (randomly occurring nonlinearities), interval time-varying delays, unbounded distributed delays as well as multiple stochastic disturbances. The stochastic nonlinearities and multiple stochastic disturbances are investigated here in order to reflect more realistic dynamical behaviors of the complex networks that are affected by the noisy environment. By utilizing a new matrix functional with the idea of partitioning the lower bound h1 of the time-varying delay, we employ the stochastic analysis techniques and the properties of the Kronecker product to establish delay-dependent synchronization criteria that ensure the globally asymptotically mean-square synchronization of the addressed stochastic delayed complex networks. The sufficient conditions obtained are in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) whose solutions can be readily solved by using the standard numerical software. A numerical example is exploited to show the applicability of the proposed results.This work was supported in part by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the UK under Grant GR/S27658/01, an International Joint Project sponsored by the Royal Society of the UK, the National 973 Program of China under Grant 2009CB320600, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 60804028, the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education for New Teachers under Grant 200802861044, the Teaching and Research Fund for Excellent Young Teachers at Southeast University of China, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany
Lycopene protects against hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced apoptosis by preventing mitochondrial dysfunction in primary neonatal mouse cardiomyocytes
BACKGROUND: Hypoxia/reoxygenation(H/R)-induced apoptosis of cardiomyocytes plays an important role in myocardial injury. Lycopene is a potent antioxidant carotenoid that has been shown to have protective properties on cardiovascular system. The aim of the present study is to investigate the potential for lycopene to protect the cardiomyocytes exposed to H/R. Moreover, the effect on mitochondrial function upon lycopene exposure was assessed. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Primary cardiomyocytes were isolated from neonatal mouse and established an in vitro model of H/R which resembles ischemia/reperfusion in vivo. The pretreatment of cardiomyocytes with 5 microM lycopene significantly reduced the extent of apoptosis detected by TUNEL assays. To further study the mechanism underlying the benefits of lycopene, interactions between lycopene and the process of mitochondria-mediated apoptosis were examined. Lycopene pretreatment of cardiomyocytes suppressed the activation of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) by reducing the intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels and inhibiting the increase of malondialdehyde (MDA) levels caused by H/R. Moreover, the loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, a decline in cellular ATP levels, a reduction in the amount of cytochrome c translocated to the cytoplasm and caspase-3 activation were observed in lycopene-treated cultures. CONCLUSION: The present results suggested that lycopene possesses great pharmacological potential in protecting against H/R-induced apoptosis. Importantly, the protective effects of lycopene may be attributed to its roles in improving mitochondrial function in H/R-treated cardiomyocytes.published_or_final_versio
Analytic Bethe Ansatz for 1-D Hubbard model and twisted coupled XY model
We found the eigenvalues of the transfer matrices for the 1-D Hubbard model
and for the coupled XY model with twisted boundary condition by using the
analytic Bethe Ansatz method. Under a particular condition the two models have
the same Bethe Ansatz equations. We have also proved that the periodic 1-D
Hubbard model is exactly equal to the coupled XY model with nontrivial twisted
boundary condition at the level of hamiltonians and transfer matrices.Comment: 22 pages, latex, no figure
Production and decay of the neutral top-pion in high energy colliders
We study the production and decay of the neutral top-pion
predicted by topcolor-assisted technicolor(TC2) theory. Our results show that,
except the dominant decay modes , and , the
can also decay into and modes. It can
be significantly produced at high energy collider(LC) experiments
via the processes and . We further calculate the production cross sections of the
processes and . We find that the signatures of the neutral top-pion
can be detected via these processes.Comment: Latex file, 13 Pages, 6 eps figures. to be published in Phys.Rev.
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