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http://www.geekwire.com/2023/meet-hacker-professor-whos-saving-lives-smart-devices-sonar/

Anran presents his work on using white noise to track infant breathing on smart speakers. Vikram presents his work on living IoT which is a light weight wireless platform for living insects. http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2023/

互联网+”新常态 移动4G开启指尖上的智慧民生-广西 ...:2021-7-8 · 广西新闻网南宁7月8日讯（记者 蒋尧 通讯员 林洁 申蓓)在“互联网+”上升为国家战略的背景下，伍4G为伋表的新一伋通信网络，持续推动着移动互联 ...

Check out the profile Geekwire did on Justin: http://www.geekwire.com/2023/justin-chan/

Check out Justin’s Lancent article: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32087-2/fulltext

Cornell Tech today announced four new professors who will join the campus’ distinguished faculty. With research and industry experience in fields such as machine learning, computational photography, and mobile health applications, these professors will build on Cornell Tech’s interdisciplinary and groundbreaking research. Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor joins the Jacobs   Read More ...

Check out our Digital Medicine paper on detecting cardiac arrest using smart speakers and phones. http://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-019-0128-7

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/15/723595540/a-smartphone-app-and-a-paper-funnel-could-help-parents-diagnose-kids-ear-infecti

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/492/eaav1102

Check out the article written by our friends at Sleepscore and ResMed to the American Academic of Sleep Medicine. http://jcsm.aasm.org/ViewAbstract.aspx?pid=31480&fbclid=IwAR3ybOU44i2J3dcNBXvI3vfllrOrNcPJXUya8AMNL1mLYJ55deBiw7AJaeg

Check out Rajalakshmi’s interview on Science Friday! Rajalakshmi talks about the lab’s work on using active sonar for various applications.

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无线通信技术各领风骚 智能家居统一标准没有必要 ...:2021-12-14 · 无线通讯协议是智能家居领域的关键技术，是连接设备、实现信息传输的通道，是实现智能产品之间互联互通互控与协同的“桥梁”。不过，目前智能家居市场标准未定，多种无线协议并存，主要的通讯协议有WiFi、Zigbee、蓝牙、Z-wave、Thread ...

Check out the coverage of the Living IoT program on NBC News. http://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/how-tiny-backpacks-are-turning-bees-living-drones-ncna948046

Check out our work on Living IoT at MobiCom 2023:

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333985&page_number=3&fbclid=IwAR1ghr5-0uEQ7EUjdJqqXL3-rNcVKB9C4WGT_-wikUnhuA0iELAv1Ymw5yQ      

Congrats to Rajalakshmi and Vikram.   Check out the work at http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~gshyam/Papers/ulocate.pdf

http://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/02/about-the-weight-of-a-toothpick-first-wireless-robo-insect-takes-off.html   “Because the laser alone can’t provide enough voltage to move the wings, the team designed a circuit that boosts the 7 volts coming out of the photovoltaic cell up to the 240 volts needed for flight. To give RoboFly control over its own wings, the engineers added a   Read More ...

“LoRa Backscatter: Enabling The Vision of Ubiquitous Connectivity”, published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies is the winner of an IMWUT Vol. 1 Distinguished Paper Award. A selection committee made of 14 members of the IMWUT Editorial Board (see list below) selected –   Read More ...

To quote Colin Lawler: “Starting with the last question – smartphones have improved both in terms of processing capability and speaker and microphone quality. When combining this with a revolutionary.and patented, new approach to sonar, we found a way to enable a pretty clear picture of the respiratory pattern and   Read More ...

  Rajalakshmi Nandakumar and Vint Cerf

从乌镇数字看数字中国-广西新闻网 - gxnews.com.cn:2021-10-23 · 世界关注乌镇，全球瞩目中国。今天，第六届世界互联网大会闭幕。在这场互联网盛宴上都有哪些看点？让我伊用一组数字带您一起回顾——2021年 ...

5 apps and services for productivity and wellness    

    http://www.geekwire.com/2018/rajalakshmi-nandakumar/

Rajalakshmi Nandakumar has been recognized with a Paul Baran Young Scholar Award from the Marconi Society for her work on mobile apps capable of detecting potentially life-threatening health issues. She is the first Allen School student to receive the award, which honors outstanding early-career researchers in wireless communications and the   Read More ...

http://www.doctoroz.com/episode/oz-investigates-could-eating-more-salt-actually-save-your-life?video_id=5797590614001 Fitness trainer Gunnar Peterson and Dr. Oz explain how the SleepScore app can help you get more rest. This technology is based on the ApneaApp technology licensed from our lab.

The UW team behind ApneaApp, left to right: Nate Watson, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, and Shyam Gollakota. Photo credit: Sarah McQuate/University of Washington   More than a billion people worldwide experience problems related to sleep, which can have a significant impact on their health, productivity, and overall quality of life. In the   Read More ...

Check out the ICRA paper: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~gshyam/Papers/wirelessfly.pdf

2021笔记本行业展望 除了5G、折叠屏还有什么？ - huanqiu.com:2021-2-3 · CES上亮相的5G笔记本联想YOGA 5G搭载高通骁龙8cx处理器，支持毫米波和sub-6G网络，可提供约4Gbps的下载速度，预计会在Q1内发售。5G高速网络连接与高 ...

Wired covers our work on charging smartphones using lasers.     http://www.wired.com/story/wireless-charging-with-lasers/

Although mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones let us communicate, work and access information wirelessly, their batteries must still be charged by plugging them in to an outlet. But we have for the first time developed a method to safely charge a smartphone wirelessly using a laser. http://laserpower.cs.washington.edu/  

硬核展示|《人民邮电》报5G创新先锋奖（一）：大行业，技术 ...:2021-6-24 · 原标题：硬核展示|《人民邮电》报5G创新先锋奖（一）：大行业，技术创新助力5G商用5G商用牌照的发放，标志着我国进入5G商用元年，5G网络建设也正式拉开帷幕。日前，经专家推荐和评选委员会评定，2021年度《人民邮电》报5G创新先锋奖评选结果正式 ...

Vikram is one of ten MSR Ph.D. fellows of 2018. PhD Fellowship Program

  http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/no-batteries-wires-or-plugs-uw-team-makes-plastic-devices-that-communicate-via-wi-fi/   and others

Check out our Siggraph work on 3D printing wireless connected objects.   http://printedwifi.cs.washington.edu/    

A shirt that doubles as your password? UW researchers creating ‘high-tech’ fabrics   http://komonews.com/news/local/uw-researchers-creating-high-tech-fabrics-that-can-store-data    

“This smart fabric doesn’t need electronics or batteries, but it can encode data readable by a magnetometer like the one in your phone.”     http://www.technologyreview.com/s/609264/your-next-password-may-be-stored-in-your-shirt-cuff/  

广中医仙葫院区19日开业 从17日起至月底门诊诊查费将全免 ...:2021-7-19 · 7月19日，广西中医药大学第一附属医院仙葫院区举行开业庆典伈式。广西中医药大学第一附属医院仙葫院区位于广西南宁市仙葫经济开发区仙葫大道327号，地处南宁市东部核心地带，紧邻东方广场及仙葫经济开发区管委会，是仙葫开发区唯一医疗规划。

Our recent work on LoRa backscatter breaks the long held belief that backscatter is a short-range communication system.   http://longrange.cs.washington.edu/

With TVM, researchers and practitioners in industry and academia  will be able to quickly and easily deploy deep learning applications on a wide range of systems, including mobile phones, embedded devices, and low-power specialized chips — and do so without sacrificing battery power or speed. Learn more about this project:   Read More ...

  Smart devices and appliances are becoming increasingly prevalent, but as a consequence of adding these connected devices such as smart TVs, phones, and hubs like the Amazon Echo to our homes, there are an increased number of connected speakers and microphones with access to our private environment. In this   Read More ...

Congrats! http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/dissertation    

Check out our work on using music as a surveillance tool. This work is to appear at Ubicomp 2017. http://musicattacks.cs.washington.edu/

Check it out! http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2017/07/10/battery-free-cell-phone-university-of-washington.cnnmoney/index.html

Check out the first battery-free phone designed by our lab. http://batteryfreephone.cs.washington.edu/

http://www.sigmobile.org/awards/dissertation.html    

Tom Anderson is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Allen School’s Tom Anderson elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Shyam was awarded the Sigmobile Rockstar award. http://news.cs.washington.edu/2017/03/23/allen-schools-shyam-gollakota-wins-2017-sigmobile-rockstar-award/  

This project enables connectivity on everyday objects by transforming them into FM radio stations. To do this, we show for the first time that ambient FM radio signals can be used as a signal source for backscatter communication. Our design creates backscatter transmissions that can be decoded on any FM receiver   Read More ...

Check out our work on connected cities and smart fabrics. http://www.washington.edu/news/2017/03/01/singing-posters-and-talking-shirts-uw-engineers-turn-everyday-objects-into-fm-radio-stations/  

http://www.forbes.com/30-under-30-2017/all-star-alumni/#49b1a02c6330

印军方忧虑中国产军事硬件 要求严查加密装置 - huanqiu.com:2021-1-25 · 美国著名智库詹姆斯敦基金会1日刊登新德里观察者研究基金会研究员维杰萨胡加博士的文章称，出于对中国网络战能力的担忧，印度方面对中国对印 ...

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Shyam talked about our work on the Internet of Disposable Things at EmTech 2016. http://www.technologyreview.com/s/602630/this-contact-lens-will-kick-start-the-internet-of-disposable-things/?utm_campaign=internal&utm_medium=readnext&utm_source=item_1    

  Madrona Awards the Madrona Prize to our Backscatter work. http://www.madrona.com/madrona-awards-madrona-prize-backscatter-team-uw-industrial-affiliates-day/ “2016 marks the 11th year of the Madrona Prize which is awarded to a ground breaking and commercially viable technology developed at the University of Washington.  Since Madrona’s inception, more than two decades ago, Madrona has funded 16 companies   Read More ...

We show for the first time that commodity devices can be used to generate wireless data transmissions that are confined to the human body. Specifically, we show that commodity input devices such as fingerprint sensors and touchpads can be used to transmit information to only wireless receivers that are in   Read More ...

We introduce inter-technology backscatter (Interscatter), a novel approach that transforms wireless transmissions from one technology to another, on the air. Specifically, we show for the first time that Bluetooth transmissions can be used to create Wi-Fi and ZigBee-compatible signals using backscatter communication. Since Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and ZigBee radios are widely   Read More ...

FingerIO is a novel fine-grained finger tracking solution that transforms any space around off-the-shelf smartphones or smartwatches into an interactive surfaces. FingerIO does not require instrumenting the finger with sensors and works even in the presence of occlusions between the finger and the device. We achieve this by transforming the一sub网络加速器

We introduce Passive Wi-Fi that demonstrates for the first time that one can generate 802.11b transmissions using backscatter communication, while consuming 3 – 4 orders of magnitude lower power than existing Wi-Fi chipsets. Passive Wi-Fi transmissions can be decoded on any Wi-Fi device including routers, mobile phones and tablets. Building   Read More ...

Quoting the article “Now researchers at the University of Washington have found a way to eliminate the airtime and the hassle—by using the human body as a conduit for passing security codes from one device to another. By holding a smartphone in one hand, for example, and touching a doorknob   Read More ...

We show for the first time that commodity devices can be used to generate wireless data transmissions that are confined to the human body. Specifically, we show that commodity input devices such as fingerprint sensors and touchpads can be used to transmit information to only wireless receivers that are in   Read More ...

  The article says Shyam Gollakota uncovered a way to create Wi-Fi signals without radio transistors. And here’s the real payoff: These “passive Wi-Fi” devices use 10,000 times less power than a typical Wi-Fi chip, and 1,000 times less power than the most efficient Bluetooth, thereby significantly reducing the need   Read More ...

We introduce inter-technology backscatter (Interscatter), a novel approach that transforms wireless transmissions from one technology to another, on the air. Specifically, we show for the first time that Bluetooth transmissions can be used to create Wi-Fi and ZigBee-compatible signals using backscatter communication. Since Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and ZigBee radios are widely   Read More ...

FingerIO is a novel fine-grained finger tracking solution that transforms any space around off-the-shelf smartphones or smartwatches into an interactive surfaces. The work got an honorable mention award at CHI 2016.    

Check out the coverage on our first Wi-Fi enabled contact lens prototype. http://www.technologyreview.com/s/602035/first-wi-fi-enabled-smart-contact-lens-prototype/

Passive Wi-Fi captured the Best Paper Award at the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’16) Congratulations to the team

FingerIO is a novel fine-grained finger tracking solution that transforms any space around off-the-shelf smartphones or smartwatches into an interactive surfaces. The work got an honorable mention award at CHI 2016. Check out the project website

Shyam Gollakota was selected by CNN Money as one of five innovators who are changing the world for a recent segment called Visionaries 2023.

Our work on Passive Wi-Fi is covered by The Seattle Times.

Passive Wi-Fi, a new low-power Wi-Fi communications system developed by the team, has been named one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2016. The system, which can generate Wi-Fi transmissions using 10,000 times less power than conventional methods, was developed in UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota’s Networks &   Read More ...

硬核展示|《人民邮电》报5G创新先锋奖（一）：大行业，技术 ...:2021-6-24 · 原标题：硬核展示|《人民邮电》报5G创新先锋奖（一）：大行业，技术创新助力5G商用5G商用牌照的发放，标志着我国进入5G商用元年，5G网络建设也正式拉开帷幕。日前，经专家推荐和评选委员会评定，2021年度《人民邮电》报5G创新先锋奖评选结果正式 ...

Power over Wi-Fi named a top innovation of 2015 by Popular Science Find more about the project

Sleep apnea is a common medical disorder that is estimated to affect more than 18 million American adults and is linked to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack, stroke, and increased motor vehicle accidents. ApneaApp is a contactless solution for detecting sleep apnea events by monitoring the   Read More ...

University of Washington Interim President Ana Mari Cauce has announced the appointment of 17 new members to the university’s prestigious CoMotion Presidential Innovation Fellows program.

Our work on Power over WiFi is covered by BBC, Wired, Tech Review and others. Find more information about the power over WiFi system.

Shyam Gollakota has received an NSF CAREER Award

Forbes 30 under 30 Energy

Wi-Fi Imaging Check out the project: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~gshyam/Papers/wision.pdf>Project Paper

印军方忧虑中国产军事硬件 要求严查加密装置 - huanqiu.com:2021-1-25 · 出于对中国网络 ... 关注来自中国的军事硬件中的零部件（sub -assemblies），尤其是通讯装备。印度空军及海军都收到命伌，一旦发现自己的系统及 ...

直击MWC：“5G+折叠屏”燃爆 中兴通讯站到“C位”_中证网:2021-2-26 · 在“极简5G”框架内,通过实施网络极简策略,得伍助力全球运营商进行5G快速部署;通过发布无线网络自动化系列产品解决方案,加速成功打造自动驾驶 ...

MIT Tech Review link ” The technology could free engineers to extend the tendrils of the Internet and computers into corners of the world they don’t currently reach. Battery-free devices that can communicate could make it much cheaper and easier to widely deploy sensors inside homes to take control of   Read More ...

RF-powered computers are small devices that compute and communicate using only the power that they harvest from RF signals. While existing technologies have harvested power from ambient RF sources (e.g., TV broadcasts), they require a dedicated gateway (like an RFID reader) for Internet connectivity. We present Wi-Fi Backscatter, a novel   Read More ...

Our work that is to appear at MOBICOM 2014 introduces the first design that enables an instantaneous feedback channel on battery-free backscatter devices. Specifically, it gives receivers a way to provide low-rate feedback to the transmitter on the same frequency as that of the backscatter transmissions, using neither multiple antennassub网络加速

联发科技与诺基亚AirScale 5G基站成功完成预商用测试:2021-2-21 · 原标题：联发科技与诺基亚AirScale5G基站成功完成预商用测试【CNMO新闻】5G是2021年绝对的话题。就在5G网络预商用的这一年，各种有关5G网络的部署都在不断进行。日前，联发科技公开宣布，其5G调制解调器芯片HelioM70完成和诺基亚AirScale5G基站

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Two papers from the networks lab will appear at APSys in Beijing in June Machine Fault Tolerance for Reliable Datacenter Systems by Danyang, Qiao, Dan, Arvind, and Tom and User scripting on Android using BladeDroid by Ravi, Dominic, Pingyang, Ray, Will, and Mike You can see the full program on   Read More ...

Here is the link: Technology promises control of smartphones through hand gestures

People with tetraplegia have either partially or completely lost their abilities to move their arms or legs. We want technologies to help those patients to interact with their surroundings. Fortunately, many of those patients are able to move their tongues on command. Researchers have thus asked if it is possible   Read More ...

We will be presenting the following work at SIGCOMM 2014 Turbocharging Backscatter Communication Aaron Parks, Angli Liu, Shyam Gollakota, and Josh Smith Connecting RF-Powered Things to the Internet Bryce Kellogg, Aaron Parks, Shyam Gollakota, Josh Smith, and David Wetherall One tunnel is enough Simon Peter, Umar Javed, Qiao Zhang, Doug   Read More ...

Vincent and Vamsi win QualComm Innovation Fellowship 2014 for ambient backscatter. Here is the information: http://www.qualcomm.com/research/university-relations/innovation-fellowship/2014

Bryce kellogg demos and discusses AllSee on King5 news. Bryce on King5

Existing gesture-recognition systems consume significant power and computational resources that limit how they may be used in low-end devices. We introduce AllSee, the first gesture-recognition system that can operate on a range of computing devices including those with no batteries. AllSee consumes three to four orders of magnitude lower power   Read More ...

UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota is in the New York Times.

Check out the reddit article where Will answers questions Reddit article where Will discusses teaching in North Korea

Check out our work on non-invasive Tongue Machine Interface at CHI 2014 Non-Invasive Tongue Machine Interface Qiao Zhang, Shyam Gollakota, Ben Taskar, and Raj Rao

[新京报]原子能楼被拆，感情和记忆无法重建_正义网 - jcrb.com:2021-6-23 · 据媒体报道，位于中关村的中科院原子能楼日前开始了拆除工作，被拆已成既定事实。而上周，一些中科院的院士与职工，还在想办法争取将原子能楼保护下来。大众舆论对于原子能楼的拆除，并无太大的反应。据悉，原子能楼拆除后，原址或将建起国家纳米中心实验室。

uProxy is a browser extension that lets users share alternative more secure routes to the Internet. It’s like a personalised VPN service that you set up for yourself and your friends. uProxy helps users protect each other from third parties who may try to watch, block, or redirect users’ Internet   Read More ...

Strong User Isolation for Scalable Web Applications PDF Web applications are a frequent target of successful attacks. The damage is amplified by the fact that application code is responsible for security enforcement in most web frameworks. In this paper we design and implement Radiatus, a web framework where all application-specific   Read More ...

WiSee was awarded the best paper at MobiCom 2013. Check out the project webpage: wisee.cs.washington.edu

Youtube Video Future of network architecture by Tom Anderson

As computing devices become smaller and more numerous, powering them becomes more difficult; wires are often not feasible, and batteries add weight, bulk, cost, and require recharging/replacement that is impractical at large scales. Ambient backscatter communication solves this problem by leveraging existing TV and cellular transmissions, rather than generating their   Read More ...

Ambient Backscatter wins the best paper award at ACM SIGCOMM 2013, to be held in Hong Kong, China between August 12 and August 16, 2013. The paper is titled Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air Check out the UW CSE announcement and the project webpage.

Check out the papers from UW at MOBICOM 2013. Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless Signals, Qifan Pu, Sidhant Gupta, Shyam Gollakota, and Shwetak Patel Interference Alignment Using Motion, Fadel Adib, Swarun Kumar, Omar Aryan, Shyam Gollakota, and Dina Katabi QuickSync: Accelerating Information Transfer Over Unsynchronized Screen-Camera Links, Wenjun Hu, Hao网络加速器

WiSee is the first whole-home gesture recognition system using wireless signals. Since wireless signals do not require line-of-sight and can traverse through walls, WiSee can enable whole-home gesture recognition using few wireless sources (e.g., a Wi-Fi router and a few mobile devices in the living room). Our results show that   Read More ...

Technology trends and economic forces are moving us toward a world in which personal information is valuable, and companies have an incentive to obtain as much of it as possible. Targeted advertising, for example, has revolutionized revenue generation, but while this is good for companies, the implications for user privacy   Read More ...

Vincent Liu and Tom Anderson were quoted in an article on F10 in the UW Daily!  You can read the article at http://dailyuw.com/archive/2013/05/08/science/uw-researchers-fix-faults-online-networks

UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota has received the 2012 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award – presented annually to the author of the best doctoral dissertation, worldwide, in computer science – for his MIT doctoral dissertation “Embracing Interference in Wireless Systems.” Read more at UW CSE News

Congratulations to UW students, faculty, and alumni for the excellent research and systems we built that are to appear in SIGCOMM 2013! Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication out of Thin Air Vincent Liu, Aaron Parks, Vamsi Talla, Shyam Gollakota, David Wetherall, Josh Smith Bringing Cross-Layer MIMO to Today’s Wireless LANs Swarun   Read More ...

WProf is a tool that extracts dependencies of activities during a page load. For Web developers, WProf can help identify the bottleneck activities of your Web pages. For browser architects, WProf can relate page load bottlenecks to either Web standards or browser implementation choices.

A large contingent of the UW networks lab was present at NSDI this week. It was great to interact with the community and see the alumni from the lab enjoying their new homes.

Congratulations to Vincent Liu, Daniel Halperin, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Tom Anderson!  "F10: A Fault-Tolerant Engineered Network" was recognized with a Best Paper award at NSDI. UW CSE News » CSE faculty and students win 2013 NSDI “Best Paper” Award NSDI – the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation   Read More ...

We’re looking forward to presenting a couple of papers at HotOS in May. From the Networking Lab: Arrakis: A Case for the End of the Empire Simon Peter and Thomas Anderson, University of Washington The Case for Onloading Continuous High-Datarate Perception to the Phone Seungyeop Han, University of Washington; Matthai   Read More ...

We propose to build a tool, Triceratops, for securing mobile applications. It allows any user to protect his or her personal information from malicious mobile apps, in ways that are not possible today. Triceratops takes a mobile app with a set of security policies as input, and generates a secured   Read More ...

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Arrakis is a new operating system that is designed around recent application and hardware trends: Applications are becoming so complex that they are miniature operating systems in their own right and are fighting with already established OS services. For example, a web browser needs to protect itself against untrusted scripts   Read More ...

Coming soon, this will become the official Networks lab website.  Our previous web presence didn’t do a good job of highlighting all the awesome projects we're working on.

The UW Introduction to Networking class on Coursera has started up. If you want to learn more about computer networks – or have missed David Wetherall’s sultry voice – this is the class to take! http://www.coursera.org/course/comnetworks

A New Baseline for the Web Free web services often face growing pains. In the current client-server access model, the cost of providing a service increases with its popularity. This leads organizations that want to provide services free-of-charge to rely to donations, advertisements, or mergers with larger companies to cope   Read More ...

Blocking-Resistant Network Services The desire for uncensored access to the Internet has motivated the development of both open proxies like Tor and social graph-based overlays like FreeNet. However, neither design is sufficient, as relays in open proxies are easily exposed and blocked, and overlays based just on social trust suffer   Read More ...