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  1. Questioning the Criteria for Evaluating Non-Cryptographic Hash Functions

    Article • Communications of the ACM, January 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    David Malone

  2. Staying at the Roach Motel: Cross-Country Analysis of Manipulative Subscription and Cancellation Flows

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    David Malone

  3. Optimal age-specific vaccination control for COVID-19: An Irish case study

    Article • PLOS One, September 2023, PLOS

    David Malone

  4. Adaptive password guessing: learning language, nationality and dataset source

    Article • Annals of Telecommunications, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  5. Revisiting and Revamping an IPv6 Network Telescope

    Article • June 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  6. Log-Normal Distribution Modelling with Quantised Data

    Article • June 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  7. Costs and Benefits of Authentication Advice

    Article • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, May 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    David Malone

  8. Guessing PINs, One Partial PIN at a Time

    Article • Entropy, September 2022, MDPI AG

    David Malone

  9. A Physical Layer Security (PLS) approach through Address Fed Mapping Crest Factor Reduction applicable for 5G/6G signals

    Article • August 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  10. Fianán, Cuacha: Irish Cookie Banners

    Article • June 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  11. A Framework to Model Bursty Electronic Data Interchange Messages for Queueing Systems

    Article • Future Internet, May 2022, MDPI AG

    David Malone

  12. Choosing Wordlists for Password Guessing: An Adaptive Multi-armed Bandit Approach

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  13. Finding the Digits of the Roots of a Polynomial with Horner's Help

    Article • Irish Mathematical Society Bulletin, January 2022, Maynooth University

    David Malone

  14. Heads Or Tails: A Framework To Model Supply Chain Heterogeneous Messages

    Article • October 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  15. Quantum Money Scheme

    Article • September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    David Malone

  16. On the Feasibility of Localising Smart Devices using Air Pressure

    Article • June 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  17. Quantum Multi-factor Authentication

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  18. David John Simms (1933-2018)

    Article • Irish Mathematical Society Bulletin, January 2021, Maynooth University

    David Malone

  19. Using machine learning to predict links and improve Steiner tree solutions to team formation problems - a cross company study

    Article • Applied Network Science, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  20. Implementing a Quantum Coin Scheme

    Article • June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  21. Convergence of Password Guessing to Optimal Success Rates

    Article • Entropy, March 2020, MDPI AG

    David Malone

  22. A Novel Physical Layer Authentication With PAPR Reduction Based on Channel and Hardware Frequency Responses

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, February 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Miriam Leeser, David Malone

  23. Performance Investigation of Peak Shrinking and Interpolating the PAPR Reduction Technique for LTE-Advance and 5G Signals

    Article • Information, December 2019, MDPI AG

    David Malone

  24. Using Machine Learning to Predict Links and Improve Steiner Tree Solutions to Team Formation Problems

    Article • November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  25. Power Saving Proxies for Web Servers

    Article • The Computer Journal, November 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    David Malone

  26. Entropy Estimates for the Irish Language

    Article • June 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  27. Peak Shrinking and Interpolating Technique for reducing Peak to Average Power Ratio

    Article • April 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone, Dr. Saeed Mohammadi

  28. A Novel Physical Layer Encryption Scheme to Counter Eavesdroppers in Wireless Communications

    Article • December 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  29. Exploring the Impact of Password Dataset Distribution on Guessing

    Article • August 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  30. Hello & Goodbye: Conversation Boundary Identification Using Text Classification

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  31. Bundles: A Framework to Optimise Topic Analysis in Real-Time Chat Discourse

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  32. Approaching incast congestion with multi-host ethernet controllers

    Article • November 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  33. Different every time: A framework to model real-time instant message conversations

    Article • November 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  34. Obscured by the cloud: A resource allocation framework to model cloud outage events

    Article • Journal of Systems and Software, September 2017, Elsevier

    David Malone

  35. A Lossless Network for Data Acquisition

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  36. Evaluating password advice

    Article • June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  37. Social dogfood: A framework to minimise clouc field defects through crowd sourced testing

    Article • June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  38. Imola: A decentralised learning-driven protocol for multi-hop White-Fi

    Article • Computer Communications, June 2017, Elsevier

    David Malone

  39. The impact of interaction and algorithm choice on identified communities

    Article • June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  40. Identification and insight into a long transitory phase in random-access protocols

    Article • May 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  41. A learning approach to decentralised beacon scheduling

    Article • Ad Hoc Networks, October 2016, Elsevier

    David Malone

  42. Analysing and Predicting the Runtime of Social Graphs

    Article • October 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  43. Guest Editorial Power Line Communications and Its Integration With the Networking Ecosystem

    Article • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, July 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  44. State of the Art in Power Line Communications: From the Applications to the Medium

    Article • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, July 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  45. Learning from experience: Efficient decentralized scheduling for 60GHz mesh networks

    Article • June 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Joerg Widmer, David Malone

  46. Are you being served: A framework to manage Cloud outage repair times for Small Medium Enterprises

    Article • June 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  47. When is the right time to transmit in multi-hop White-Fi?

    Article • June 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  48. Greener Data Exchange in the Cloud: A Coding-Based Optimization for Big Data Processing

    Article • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, May 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  49. Rigorous and practical proportional-fair allocation for multi-rate Wi-Fi

    Article • Ad Hoc Networks, January 2016, Elsevier

    David Malone

  50. A lossless switch for data acquisition networks

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  51. Social testing: A framework to support adoption of continuous delivery by small medium enterprises

    Article • September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  52. Analogues between tuning TCP for Data Acquisition and datacenter networks

    Article • June 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  53. On efficiency and validity of previous Homeplug MAC performance analysis

    Article • Computer Networks, June 2015, Elsevier

    David Malone

  54. When priority resolution goes way too far: An experimental evaluation in PLC networks

    Article • June 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  55. WiFo: A diagnostic tool for IEEE 802.11 MAC

    Article • June 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  56. CodHoop: A system for optimizing big data processing

    Article • April 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  57. Mitigating collisions through power-hopping to improve 802.11 performance

    Article • Pervasive and Mobile Computing, April 2014, Elsevier

    David Malone

  58. Performance evaluation of the priority resolution scheme in PLC networks

    Article • March 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  59. Bitcoin Mining and its Energy Footprint

    Article • January 2014, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    David Malone

  60. A new adaptive redundancy control algorithm for VoIP applications

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  61. Improved E-model for monitoring quality of multi-party VoIP communications

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  62. Power saving for web servers using proxies

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  63. Welcome message from the WNM chairs

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  64. Evaluation of the backoff procedure of Homeplug MAC vs. DCF

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  65. H-RCA: 802.11 Collision-Aware Rate Control

    Article • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, August 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  66. RT-WiFi

    Article • ACM SIGBED Review, July 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    David Malone

  67. A Comparison of RF Exposure in Macro- and Femtocells

    Article • Health Physics, July 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

    David Malone

  68. On the improvement of receiver-initiated MAC protocols for WSNs by applying scheduling

    Article • June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  69. Rogue femtocell owners: How Mallory can monitor my devices

    Article • April 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  70. Rogue femtocell owners: How mallory can monitor my devices

    Article • April 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  71. Online Estimation of VVoIP Quality-of-Experience via Network Emulation

    Article • January 2013, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    David Malone

  72. 802.11 Buffers: When Bigger Is Not Better?

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  73. Monitoring VoIP call quality using improved simplified E-model

    Article • January 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  74. Hash pile ups: Using collisions to identify unknown hash functions

    Article • October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  75. Experiments with radiated interference from in-home power line communication networks

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  76. Exploiting the capture effect to improve WLAN throughput

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  77. Decentralised learning MACs for collision-free access in WLANs

    Article • Wireless Networks, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  78. Investigating the distribution of password choices

    Article • April 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    David Malone

  79. Dynamics of contention free period reservation in IEEE 1901 networks

    Article • March 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  80. WLAN channel selection without communication

    Article • Computer Networks, March 2012, Elsevier

    David Malone

  81. Addressing Slot Drift in Decentralized Collision Free Access Schemes for WLANs

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  82. Supporting first person shooter games with competing traffic in 802.11e MAC

    Article • October 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  83. Incentivising Fairness and Policing Nodes in WiFi

    Article • IEEE Communications Letters, May 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  84. Construction of a PLC test bed for network and transport layer experiments

    Article • April 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  85. The 802.11g 11 Mb/s Rate is More Robust than 6 Mb/s

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, April 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  86. Buffer Sizing for 802.11-Based Networks

    Article • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, February 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  87. On the Validity of IEEE 802.11 MAC Modeling Hypotheses

    Article • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  88. Measuring Transmission Opportunities in 802.11 Links

    Article • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, October 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  89. Probabilistic approaches to cheating detection in online games

    Article • August 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  90. EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF A RADIOFREQUENCY POWER MODEL FOR WI-FI TECHNOLOGY

    Article • Health Physics, April 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

    David Malone

  91. Optimisation of capacity in various 802.11 gaming scenarios

    Article • International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, January 2010, Inderscience Publishers

    David Malone

  92. 802.11 wireless LAN multiplayer game capacity and optimization

    Article • November 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  93. Does every bit need the same power? An investigation on unequal power allocation for irregular LDPC codes

    Article • November 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  94. Achieving End-to-end Fairness in 802.11e Based Wireless Multi-Hop Mesh Networks Without Coordination

    Article • Mobile Networks and Applications, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  95. AMBIENT RADIOFREQUENCY POWER: THE IMPACT OF THE NUMBER OF DEVICES IN A WI-FI NETWORK

    Article • Health Physics, June 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

    David Malone

  96. Aggregation With Fragment Retransmission for Very High-Speed WLANs

    Article • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, April 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  97. Inferring Queue State by Measuring Delay in a WiFi Network

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  98. Complexity Attack Resistant Flow Lookup Schemes for IPv6: A Measurement Based Comparison

    Article • December 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  99. Investigating the validity of IEEE 802.11 MAC modeling hypotheses

    Article • September 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  100. Achieving end-to-end fairness in 802.11e based wireless multi-hop mesh networks

    Article • August 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  101. Implementing TCP flow-level fairness using 802.11e in a multi-radio mesh testbed

    Article • IEEE Communications Letters, April 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  102. Spurious TCP timeouts in 802.11 networks

    Article • April 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  103. Experimental assessment of 802.11 MAC layer channel estimators

    Article • IEEE Communications Letters, December 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  104. Logarithmic asymptotics for a single-server processing distinguishable sources

    Article • Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, October 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  105. Ambiguities in estimates of critical exponents for long-range dependent processes

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, April 2007, Elsevier

    David Malone

  106. Experimental Implementation of Optimal WLAN Channel Selection without Communication

    Article • April 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  107. Understanding 802.11e Voice Behaviour via Testbed Measurements and Modeling

    Article • April 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  108. MAC Layer Channel Quality Measurement in 802.11

    Article • IEEE Communications Letters, February 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  109. Modeling the 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function in Nonsaturated Heterogeneous Conditions

    Article • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, February 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  110. Some remarks on ld plots for heavy-tailed traffic

    Article • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, January 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    David Malone

  111. On buffer sizing for voice in 802.11 WLANs

    Article • IEEE Communications Letters, October 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  112. Modeling 802.11 mesh networks

    Article • IEEE Communications Letters, August 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  113. Counting 6to4 relay routers

    Article • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, January 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    David Malone

  114. A new MAC scheme for very high-speed WLANs

    Article • January 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  115. TCP fairness in 802.11e WLANs

    Article • IEEE Communications Letters, November 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  116. Modeling the 802.11 distributed coordination function in non-saturated conditions

    Article • IEEE Communications Letters, August 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  117. Experimental evaluation of TCP performance and fairness in an 802.11e test-bed

    Article • January 2005, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    David Malone

  118. Guesswork and Entropy

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, March 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  119. L 2 (R) Solutions of Dilation Equations and Fourier-Like Transforms

    Article • Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, May 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  120. Observations of IPv6 Addresses

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  121. Experimental Evaluation of 802.11e EDCA for Enhanced Voice over WLAN Performance

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  122. Improving Fairness in Multi-Hop Mesh Networks Using 802.11e

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  123. Modeling 802.11e for data traffic parameter design

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  124. Flow Label Filtering Feasibility

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    David Malone

  125. Modelling 802.11 Wireless Links

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone

  126. On Improving Voice Capacity in 802.11 Infrastructure Networks

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    David Malone