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Kernel Hardening; Protect Linux User Accounts against Brute Force Attacks; Improve Entropy Collection; Strong Linux User Account Separation; Enhances Misc Security Settings - https://www.kicksecure.com/wiki/Security-misc - Kicksecure/security-misc

Congestion control has been a fundamental function in computer networks as it allows controlling the throughput of the data injected into the network with the goal of reducing the impact of congestion on applications’ performance. However, congestion control has been a daunting challenge, especially in wireless environments, and this is due to their inherent nature of incurring unpredictable performance shifts. This becomes even more challenging with the emergence of eXtended Reality (XR) appl...

Delay-tolerant networks (DTNs) are networks where there is no immediate connection between the source and the destination. Instead, nodes in these networks use a store–carry–forward method to route traffic. However, approaches that rely on flooding the network with unlimited copies of messages may not be effective if network resources are limited. On the other hand, quota-based approaches are more resource-efficient but can have low delivery rates and high delivery delays. This paper introdu...

This paper presents a method for allocating transmission rates in a communication network that uses knowledge of the size of the file to be transmitted to seek to obtain the benefits of shortest remaining processing time (SRPT) scheduling. It provides fairness among file transmissions taking into account their sizes and the congestion on the links they use. The proposed approach is based on network utility maximisation (NUM), but with utility functions that vary in time depending on the remainin...

Congestion Control promises significant performance improvements for Tor users.