@conference {12098,
	title = {A trend analysis of exploitations},
	booktitle = {2001 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2001. S\&P 2001. Proceedings},
	year = {2001},
	month = {2001///},
	pages = {214 - 229},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {We have conducted an empirical study of a number of computer security exploits and determined that the rates at which incidents involving the exploit are reported to CERT can be modeled using a common mathematical framework. Data associated with three significant exploits involving vulnerabilities in phf, imap, and bind can all be modeled using the formula C=I+S{\texttimes}√M where C is the cumulative count of reported incidents, M is the time since the start of the exploit cycle, and I and S are the regression coefficients determined by analysis of the incident report data. Further analysis of two additional exploits involving vulnerabilities in mountd and statd confirm the model. We believe that the models will aid in predicting the severity of subsequent vulnerability exploitations, based on the rate of early incident reports},
	keywords = {Computer science, computer security exploits, Data analysis, data mining, Educational institutions, exploitations, Performance analysis, Predictive models, Regression analysis, Risk management, security of data, software engineering, system intrusions, System software, trend analysis, vulnerabilities, vulnerability exploitation},
	isbn = {0-7695-1046-9},
	doi = {10.1109/SECPRI.2001.924300},
	author = {Browne,H. K and Arbaugh, William A. and McHugh,J. and Fithen,W. L}
}
@conference {14762,
	title = {Benchmarking a network of PCs running parallel applications},
	booktitle = {Performance, Computing and Communications, 1998. IPCCC {\textquoteright}98., IEEE International},
	year = {1998},
	month = {1998/02/16/18},
	pages = {1 - 7},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {Presents a benchmarking study that compares the performance of a network of four PCs connected by a 100 Mbit/s fast Ethernet running three different system software configurations: TCP/IP on Windows NT, TCP/IP on Linux and a lightweight message-passing protocol (U-Net active messages) on Linux. For each configuration, we report results for communication micro-benchmarks and the NAS (Numerical Aerodynamics Simulation) parallel benchmarks. For the NAS benchmarks, the overall running time using Linux TCP/IP was 12-500\% less than the Windows NT TCP/IP configuration. Likewise, the Linux U-Net based message-passing protocol outperformed the Linux TCP/IP version by 5-200\%+. We also show that, by using Linux U-Net, we are able to achieve 125 μs latency between two processes using PVM. Finally, we report that the default mathematical libraries supplied with NT (for both gcc and Visual C++) are substantially slower than the one supplied with Linux},
	keywords = {100 Mbit/s, 125 mus, Aerodynamics, Application software, communication micro-benchmarks, default mathematical libraries, Delay, Ethernet, Ethernet networks, gcc, latency, lightweight message-passing protocol, Linux, Local area networks, mathematics computing, Message passing, microcomputer applications, Microsoft Windows NT, NAS parallel benchmarks, network operating systems, Numerical simulation, parallel applications, PARALLEL PROCESSING, PC network benchmarking, performance comparison, performance evaluation, Personal communication networks, Protocols, PVM, running time, software libraries, System software, system software configurations, TCP/IP, TCPIP, Transport protocols, U-Net active messages, Visual C++},
	isbn = {0-7803-4468-5},
	doi = {10.1109/PCCC.1998.659876},
	author = {Hollingsworth, Jeffrey K and Guven, E. and Akinlar, C.}
}
