Paul Francis

Publication List Details

Period

1978 - 2009

Number

179

Co-Authors

ViAggre: Making Routers Last Longer! (2009)

Hitesh Ballani, Paul Francis, Tuan Cao, Jia Wang

This paper presents ViAggre (Virtual Aggregation), a “configuration-only ” approach to shrinking the routing table on routers. ViAggre applies to legacy routers and can be adopted independently...

NOYB: Privacy in Online Social Networks (2009)

Saikat Guha, Kevin Tang, Paul Francis

Increasingly, Internet users trade privacy for service. Facebook, Google, and others mine personal information to target advertising. This paper presents a preliminary and partial answer to the...

ABSTRACT IPNL: A NAT-Extended Internet Architecture (2009)

Paul Francis

Internet protocol architecture designed to scalably solve the address depletion problem of IPv4. A NAT-extended architecture is one where only hosts and NAT boxes are modified. IPv4 routers and...

NOYB: Privacy in Online Social Networks (2008)

Saikat Guha, Kevin Tang, Paul Francis

Increasingly, Internet users trade privacy for service. Facebook, Google, and others mine personal information to target advertising. This paper presents a preliminary and partial answer to the...

A Parameter-Free Load Balancing Mechanism For P2P Networks Abstract (2008)

Tyler Steele, Vivek Vishnumurthy, Paul Francis

Random peer selection is commonly used to provide load-balancing in decentralized P2P systems. This paper addresses two practical concerns with using random peer selection for load balancing. The...

On The Difficulty of Finding the Nearest Peer in P2P Systems (2008)

Vishnumurthy, Vivek, Francis, Paul

Finding the nearest peer, in terms of latency, is an important problem in many Internet applications. In this paper, we argue that solutions that only examine inter-peer latencies as part of their...

On The Difficulty of Finding the Nearest Peer in P2P Systems (2008)

Vishnumurthy, Vivek, Francis, Paul

Finding the nearest peer, in terms of latency, is an important problem in many Internet applications. In this paper, we argue that solutions that only examine inter-peer latencies as part of their...

A Dirty-Slate Approach to Routing Scalability (2008)

Ballani, Hitesh, Francis, Paul, Wang, Jia, Cao, Tuan

This paper presents Virtual Aggregation, an architecture that attempts to tackle the Internet routing scalability problem. Our approach does not require any changes to router software and routing...

A Dirty-Slate Approach to Routing Scalability (2008)

Ballani, Hitesh, Francis, Paul, Wang, Jia, Cao, Tuan

This paper presents Virtual Aggregation, an architecture that attempts to tackle the Internet routing scalability problem. Our approach does not require any changes to router software and routing...

Virtual Aggregation: A Configuration-only approach to Reducing FIB Size (2008)

Francis, Paul, Ballani, Hitesh, Cao, Tuan

This report describes how an ISP can reduce its FIB size, and in so doing delay the time at which the ISP must upgrade its routers. The approach, called Virtual Aggregation (VA) works with existing...

Virtual Aggregation: A Configuration-only approach to Reducing FIB Size (2008)

Francis, Paul, Ballani, Hitesh, Cao, Tuan

This report describes how an ISP can reduce its FIB size, and in so doing delay the time at which the ISP must upgrade its routers. The approach, called Virtual Aggregation (VA) works with existing...

SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: a valuable resource for stellar astrophysics (2008)

Murphy, Simon J., Keller, Stefan C., Schmidt, Brian, Tisserand, Patrick, Bessell, Michael, Francis, Paul, ...

The Australian National University's SkyMapper telescope is amongst the first of a new generation of dedicated wide-field survey telescopes. Featuring a 5.7 square deg field-of-view Cassegrain imager...

Measurement, Security (2008)

Changxi Zheng, Lusheng Ji, Jia Wang, Paul Francis

As more and more Internet IP prefix hijacking incidents are being reported, the value of hijacking detection services has become evident. Most of the current hijacking detection approaches monitor IP...

A Measurement-based Deployment Proposal for IP Anycast ABSTRACT (2008)

Hitesh Ballani, Paul Francis

Despite its growing use in critical infrastructure services, the performance of IP(v4) Anycast and its interaction with IP routing practices is not well understood. In this paper, we present the...

Abstract (2008)

Paul Francis, Sugih Jamin, Daniel F. Gryniewicz, Vern Paxson, Yixin Jin, Lixia Zhang

There is an increasing need for Internet hosts to be able to quickly and efficiently learn the distance, in terms of metrics such as latency or bandwidth, between Internet hosts. For example, to...

ABSTRACT IPNL: A NAT-Extended Internet Architecture (2008)

Paul Francis

Internet protocol architecture designed to scalably solve the address depletion problem of IPv4. A NAT-extended architecture is one where only hosts and NAT boxes are modified. IPv4 routers and...

Abstract Towards a deployable IP Anycast service (2008)

Hitesh Ballani, Paul Francis

Since it was first described in 1993, IP anycast has been a promising technology for simple, efficient, and robust service discovery, and for connectionless services. Due to scaling issues, the...

Peer to Peer Is the Internet Going NUTSS? (2008)

Paul Francis, Internet Architecture Board

Task Force (IETF) have been telling us that the pool of available IP addresses will soon be exhausted, and that Internet growth will come to a grinding halt. They have heavily promoted their...

A screening test for heroin based on sequential injection analysis with dual-reagent chemiluminescence detection (2008)

Hill, Lauren, Lenehan, Claire, Francis, Paul, Adcock, Jacqui, Gange, Michelle, Pfeffer, Frederick, ...

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A screening test for heroin based on sequential injection analysis with dual-reagent chemiluminescence detection (2008)

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A screening test for heroin based on sequential injection analysis with dual-reagent chemiluminescence detection (2008)

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A screening test for heroin based on sequential injection analysis with dual-reagent chemiluminescence detection (2008)

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A screening test for heroin based on sequential injection analysis with dual-reagent chemiluminescence detection (2008)

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A screening test for heroin based on sequential injection analysis with dual-reagent chemiluminescence detection (2008)

Hill, Lauren, Lenehan, Claire, Francis, Paul, Adcock, Jacqui, Gange, Michelle, Pfeffer, Frederick, ...

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ShutUp: Endto-end containment of unwanted traffic (2008)

Saikat Guha, Paul Francis, Nina Taft

While the majority of Denial-of-Service (DoS) defense proposals assume a purely infrastructure-based architecture, some recent proposals suggest that the attacking endhost may be enlisted as part of...

The Clustering of QSO Absorption-line Systems (2007)

Paul Francis Shoba, Paul Francis, Shoba Veeraraghavan

. A growing body of mainly anecdotal evidence suggests that, at high redshifts, metal-line and damped Lyman-ff absorption-line systems cluster very strongly, perhaps more strongly than bright...

A Group of Galaxies at z=2.38 (2007)

Paul Francis, Bruce Woodgate, Steve Warren, Palle Møller, James Lowenthal, Ted Williams

. We have discovered a compact group of 10 large galaxies at redshift z = 2:38. Two of the galaxies are strong Lyman-ff emitters; all are bright in the near IR. We hypothesise that the group...

2 (2007)

Sylvia Ratnasamy, Paul Francis, Mark Handley, Richard Karp, Scott Shenker

Hash tables-- which map "keys " onto "values "-- are an essential building block in modern software systems. We believe a similar functionality would be equally...

2 (2007)

Sylvia Ratnasamy, Paul Francis, Mark Handley, Richard Karp, Scott Shenker

Hash tables-- which map "keys " onto "values "-- are an essential building block in modern software systems. We believe a similar functionality would be equally...

2 (2007)

Sylvia Ratnasamy, Paul Francis, Mark Handley, Richard Karp, Scott Shenker

Hash tables-- which map "keys " onto "values "-- are an essential building block in modern software systems. We believe a similar functionality would be equally...

CONMan: A Step towards Network Manageability (2007)

Ballani, Hitesh, Francis, Paul

Networks are hard to manage and in spite of all the so called holistic management packages, things are getting worse. Further, there is a general lack of research on fundamentals and an increasing...

Identity Trail: Covert Surveillance Using DNS (2007)

Guha, Saikat, Francis, Paul

The Domain Name System (DNS) was originally designed with the assumption that the DNS will return the same answer to any given query regardless of who may have issued the query, and that all data in...

Rapid determination of Papaver somniferum alkaloids in process streams using monolithic column high-performance liquid chromatography with chemiluminescence detection (2007)

Costin, Jason, Lewis, Simon, Purcell, Stuart D., Waddell, Lucy, Francis, Paul, Barnett, Neil

We have combined high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) separations using a monolithic column with acidic potassium permanganate and tris(2,2′-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) chemiluminescence...

Acidic potassium permanganate as a chemiluminescence reagent – a review (2007)

Adcock, Jacqui, Francis, Paul, Barnett, Neil

A critical and comprehensive review of acidic potassium permanganate chemiluminescence is presented. This includes discussion on reaction conditions, the influence of enhancers such as...

Soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent for the determination of opiate alkaloids, indoles and analytes of forensic Interest (2007)

Brown, Allyson, Lenehan, Claire, Francis, Paul, Dunstan, David, Barnett, Neil

We present the results of our investigations into the use of soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent, which include a significantly faster method of preparation and a study on the effect...

Determination of synephrine in weight-loss products using high performance liquid chromatography with acidic potassium permanganate chemiluminescence detection (2007)

Slezak, Teo, Francis, Paul, Anastos, Nicole, Barnett, Neil

Adrenergic amines found in extracts of Citrus aurantium (bitter orange) evoke analytically useful chemiluminescence with acidic potassium permanganate in the presence of polyphosphates. From...

Tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) chemiluminescence enhanced by silver nanoparticles (2007)

Gorman, Bree, Francis, Paul, Dunstan, Dave, Barnett, Neil

Mixtures of silver(I) and citrate that are used to produce silver nanoparticles evoke intense chemiluminescence with tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) and cerium(IV), which can be exploited for the...

Determination of urea using high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection after automated derivatisation with Xanthydrol (2007)

Clark, Shona, Francis, Paul, Conlan, Xavier, Barnett, Neil

A high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method for the determination of urea that incorporates automated derivatisation with xanthydrol (9H-xanthen-9-ol) is described. Unlike the classic...

Determination of opiate alkaloids in process liquors using capillary electrophoresis (2007)

Hindson, Benjamin, Francis, Paul, Purcell, Stuart D., Barnett, Neil

This paper describes the determination of opiate alkaloids (morphine, codeine, oripavine and thebaine) in industrial process liquors using capillary zone electrophoresis with UV-absorption detection...

Hybrid FIA/HPLC system incorporating monolithic column chromatography (2007)

Adcock, Jacqui, Francis, Paul, Agg, Kent, Marshall, Graham, Barnett, Neil

We have combined the generation of solvent gradients using milliGAT pumps, chromatographic separations with monolithic columns and chemiluminescence detection in an instrument manifold that...

Conversion of urea to hydrazine: Hofmann reaction or Favorskii analogue? Exploring reaction mechanism through isotopic labeling studies (2007)

Francis, Paul, Lim, Kieran

The power of isotopic substitution for the elucidation of a reaction mechanism is illustrated with reactions named after Hofmann and Favorskii. These reactions have important roles in synthetic...

Rapid determination of Papaver somniferum alkaloids in process streams using monolithic column high-performance liquid chromatography with chemiluminescence detection (2007)

Costin, Jason, Lewis, Simon, Purcell, Stuart D., Waddell, Lucy, Francis, Paul, Barnett, Neil

We have combined high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) separations using a monolithic column with acidic potassium permanganate and tris(2,2′-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) chemiluminescence...

Acidic potassium permanganate as a chemiluminescence reagent – a review (2007)

Adcock, Jacqui, Francis, Paul, Barnett, Neil

A critical and comprehensive review of acidic potassium permanganate chemiluminescence is presented. This includes discussion on reaction conditions, the influence of enhancers such as...

Soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent for the determination of opiate alkaloids, indoles and analytes of forensic Interest (2007)

Brown, Allyson, Lenehan, Claire, Francis, Paul, Dunstan, David E., Barnett, Neil

We present the results of our investigations into the use of soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent, which include a significantly faster method of preparation and a study on the effect...

Determination of synephrine in weight-loss products using high performance liquid chromatography with acidic potassium permanganate chemiluminescence detection (2007)

Slezak, Teo, Francis, Paul, Anastos, Nicole, Barnett, Neil

Adrenergic amines found in extracts of Citrus aurantium (bitter orange) evoke analytically useful chemiluminescence with acidic potassium permanganate in the presence of polyphosphates. From...

Tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) chemiluminescence enhanced by silver nanoparticles (2007)

Gorman, Bree, Francis, Paul, Dunstan, David E., Barnett, Neil

Mixtures of silver(I) and citrate that are used to produce silver nanoparticles evoke intense chemiluminescence with tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) and cerium(IV), which can be exploited for the...

Determination of urea using high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection after automated derivatisation with Xanthydrol (2007)

Clark, Shona, Francis, Paul, Conlan, Xavier, Barnett, Neil

A high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method for the determination of urea that incorporates automated derivatisation with xanthydrol (9H-xanthen-9-ol) is described. Unlike the classic...

Determination of opiate alkaloids in process liquors using capillary electrophoresis (2007)

Hindson, Benjamin, Francis, Paul, Purcell, Stuart D., Barnett, Neil

This paper describes the determination of opiate alkaloids (morphine, codeine, oripavine and thebaine) in industrial process liquors using capillary zone electrophoresis with UV-absorption detection...

Hybrid FIA/HPLC system incorporating monolithic column chromatography (2007)

Adcock, Jacqui, Francis, Paul, Agg, Kent, Marshall, Graham, Barnett, Neil

We have combined the generation of solvent gradients using milliGAT pumps, chromatographic separations with monolithic columns and chemiluminescence detection in an instrument manifold that...

Conversion of urea to hydrazine: Hofmann reaction or Favorskii analogue? Exploring reaction mechanism through isotopic labeling studies (2007)

Francis, Paul, Lim, Kieran

The power of isotopic substitution for the elucidation of a reaction mechanism is illustrated with reactions named after Hofmann and Favorskii. These reactions have important roles in synthetic...

A comparison of structured and unstructured P2P approaches to heterogeneous random peer selection (2007)

Vivek Vishnumurthy, Paul Francis

Random peer selection is used by numerous P2P applications; examples include application-level multicast, unstructured file sharing, and network location mapping. In most of these applications,...

Identity Trail: Covert Surveillance Using DNS (2007)

Saikat Guha, Paul Francis

Abstract. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the only globally deployed Internet service that provides user-friendly naming for Internet hosts. It was originally designed to return the same answer to...

A comparison of structured and unstructured P2P approaches to heterogeneous random peer selection (2007)

Vivek Vishnumurthy, Paul Francis

Random peer selection is used by numerous P2P applications; examples include application-level multicast, unstructured file sharing, and network location mapping. In most of these applications,...

Identity Trail: Covert Surveillance Using DNS (2007)

Saikat Guha, Paul Francis

Abstract. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the only globally deployed Internet service that provides user-friendly naming for Internet hosts. It was originally designed to return the same answer to...

Soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent for the determination of opiate alkaloids, indoles and analytes of forensic interest (2007)

Brown, Allyson, Lenehan, Claire, Francis, Paul, Dunstan, David, Barnett, Neil

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Soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent for the determination of opiate alkaloids, indoles and analytes of forensic interest (2007)

Brown, Allyson, Lenehan, Claire, Francis, Paul, Dunstan, David, Barnett, Neil

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Soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent for the determination of opiate alkaloids, indoles and analytes of forensic interest (2007)

Brown, Allyson, Lenehan, Claire, Francis, Paul, Dunstan, David, Barnett, Neil

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Soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent for the determination of opiate alkaloids, indoles and analytes of forensic interest (2007)

Brown, Allyson, Lenehan, Claire, Francis, Paul, Dunstan, David, Barnett, Neil

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Soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent for the determination of opiate alkaloids, indoles and analytes of forensic interest (2007)

Brown, Allyson, Lenehan, Claire, Francis, Paul, Dunstan, David, Barnett, Neil

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Soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent for the determination of opiate alkaloids, indoles and analytes of forensic interest (2007)

Brown, Allyson, Lenehan, Claire, Francis, Paul, Dunstan, David, Barnett, Neil

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Rapid determination of papaver somniferum alkaloids in process streams using monolithic column high-performance liquid chromatography with chemiluminescence detection (2007)

Costin, Jason, Lewis, Simon, Purcell, Stuart D., Waddell, Lucy, Francis, Paul, Barnett, Neil

We have combined high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) separations using a monolithic column with acidic potassium permanganate and tris(2,2′-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) chemiluminescence...

Acidic potassium permanganate as a chemiluminescence reagent – a review (2007)

Adcock, Jacqui, Francis, Paul, Barnett, Neil

A critical and comprehensive review of acidic potassium permanganate chemiluminescence is presented. This includes discussion on reaction conditions, the influence of enhancers such as...

Soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent for the determination of opiate alkaloids, indoles and analytes of forensic Interest (2007)

Brown, Allyson, Lenehan, Claire, Francis, Paul, Dunstan, David E., Barnett, Neil

We present the results of our investigations into the use of soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent, which include a significantly faster method of preparation and a study on the effect...

Determination of synephrine in weight-loss products using high performance liquid chromatography with acidic potassium permanganate chemiluminescence detection (2007)

Slezak, Teo, Francis, Paul, Anastos, Nicole, Barnett, Neil

Adrenergic amines found in extracts of Citrus aurantium (bitter orange) evoke analytically useful chemiluminescence with acidic potassium permanganate in the presence of polyphosphates. From...

Tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) chemiluminescence enhanced by silver nanoparticles (2007)

Gorman, Bree, Francis, Paul, Dunstan, David E., Barnett, Neil

Mixtures of silver(I) and citrate that are used to produce silver nanoparticles evoke intense chemiluminescence with tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) and cerium(IV), which can be exploited for the...

Determination of urea using high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection after automated derivatisation with Xanthydrol (2007)

Clark, Shona, Francis, Paul, Conlan, Xavier, Barnett, Neil

A high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method for the determination of urea that incorporates automated derivatisation with xanthydrol (9H-xanthen-9-ol) is described. Unlike the classic...

Determination of opiate alkaloids in process liquors using capillary electrophoresis (2007)

Hindson, Benjamin, Francis, Paul, Purcell, Stuart D., Barnett, Neil

This paper describes the determination of opiate alkaloids (morphine, codeine, oripavine and thebaine) in industrial process liquors using capillary zone electrophoresis with UV-absorption detection...

A hybrid FIA/HPLC system incorporating monolithic column chromatography (2007)

Adcock, Jacqui, Francis, Paul, Agg, Kent, Marshall, Graham, Barnett, Neil

We have combined the generation of solvent gradients using milliGAT pumps, chromatographic separations with monolithic columns and chemiluminescence detection in an instrument manifold that...

Conversion of urea to hydrazine: Hofmann reaction or Favorskii analogue? Exploring reaction mechanism through isotopic labeling studies (2007)

Francis, Paul, Lim, Kieran

The power of isotopic substitution for the elucidation of a reaction mechanism is illustrated with reactions named after Hofmann and Favorskii. These reactions have important roles in synthetic...

An end-middle-end approach to connection establishment (2007)

Saikat Guha, Paul Francis

We argue that the current model for flow establishment in the Internet: DNS Names, IP addresses, and transport ports, is inadequate due to problems that go beyond the small IPv4 address space and...

Firebreak: An IP Perimeter Defense Architecture (2006)

Francis, Paul

After many years of research, the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) problem remains essentially unsolved, both in industry and in research. Industry solutions rely primarily on beefing up the...

An Experiment in Deploying Next Generation Network Protocols (2006)

Ballani, Hitesh, Ermolinskiy, Andrey, Ratnasamy, Sylvia, Francis, Paul

This paper presents IP(dmux) - a network-layer infrastructure that serves as a general-purpose deployment vehicle for next-generation network protocols. For each new network protocol, IP(dmux)...

Understanding IP Anycast (2006)

Ballani, Hitesh, Francis, Paul

In this paper we present the first detailed analysis of IP anycast as used in the anycasting of the root-servers. The main results of our study are: The anycasting of an IP prefix does not have any...

Chunkyspread: Heterogeneous Unstructured End System Multicast (2006)

Venkataraman, Vidhyashankar, Yoshida, Kaoru, Francis, Paul

In order to maximize throughput in end-system multicast, it is necessary to have fine-grained control over the transmit load of each participating member. This both avoids bottlenecks where members...

Complexity Oblivious Network Management (2006)

Ballani, Hitesh, Francis, Paul

Networks are hard to manage and in spite of all the so called holistic management packages, things are getting worse. We argue that this is an outcome of two fundamental flaws in the existing...

A Rapid Test for Heroin (3,6-Diacetylmorphine) Based on Two Chemiluminescence Reactions (2006)

Agg, K, Craddock, Adrian, Bos, Richard, Francis, Paul, Lewis, Simon, Barnett, Neil

A rapid method for screening drug seizure samples for 3,6-diacetylmorphine (heroin), which consists of a simple hydrolysis procedure and flow-injection analysis with two chemiluminescence reagents,...

Tris(2,2´-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) chemiluminescence (2006)

Gorman, Bree, Francis, Paul, Barnett, Neil

This paper critically reviews analytical applications of the chemiluminescence from tris(2,2-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) and related compounds published in the open literature between mid-1998 and...

Near-ultraviolet chemiluminescence from the reaction of ammonia with hypobromite in aqueous solution (2006)

Francis, Paul, Adcock, Jacqui, Barnett, Neil

The chemiluminescence arising from the oxidation of ammonium chloride by sodium hypobromite in aqueous alkaline solution includes a series of peaks in the near-ultraviolet, which is not commonly...

Rapid test for heroin (3,6-Diacetylmorphine) based on two chemiluminescence reactions (2006)

Agg, Kent, Craddock, Adrian, Bos, Richard, Francis, Paul, Lewis, Simon, Barnett, Neil

A rapid method for screening drug seizure samples for 3,6-diacetylmorphine (heroin), which consists of a simple hydrolysis procedure and flow-injection analysis with two chemiluminescence reagents,...

Determination of urea in wine – a review (2006)

Francis, Paul

The concentration of urea in wine is not routinely measured in Australian laboratories, but has been examined in studies of yeast metabolism and the formation of ethyl carbamate, a known carcinogen....

Tris(2,2´-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) chemiluminescence (2006)

Gorman, Bree, Francis, Paul, Barnett, Neil

This paper critically reviews analytical applications of the chemiluminescence from tris(2,2-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) and related compounds published in the open literature between mid-1998 and...

Near-ultraviolet chemiluminescence from the reaction of ammonia with hypobromite in aqueous solution (2006)

Francis, Paul, Adcock, Jacqui, Barnett, Neil

The chemiluminescence arising from the oxidation of ammonium chloride by sodium hypobromite in aqueous alkaline solution includes a series of peaks in the near-ultraviolet, which is not commonly...

Rapid test for heroin (3,6-Diacetylmorphine) based on two chemiluminescence reactions (2006)

Agg, Kent, Craddock, Adrian, Bos, Richard, Francis, Paul, Lewis, Simon, Barnett, Neil

A rapid method for screening drug seizure samples for 3,6-diacetylmorphine (heroin), which consists of a simple hydrolysis procedure and flow-injection analysis with two chemiluminescence reagents,...

Determination of urea in wine – a review (2006)

Francis, Paul

The concentration of urea in wine is not routinely measured in Australian laboratories, but has been examined in studies of yeast metabolism and the formation of ethyl carbamate, a known carcinogen....

Chunkyspread: Multi-tree Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Multicast (2006)

Vidhyashankar Venkataraman, Paul Francis, John Calandrino

The latest debate in P2P and overlay multicast systems is whether or not to build trees. The main argument on the anti-tree side is that tree construction is complex, and that trees are fragile. The...

Scaling IP routing with the core router-integrated overlay (2006)

Xinyang Zhang, Paul Francis

Abstract — IP routing scalability is based on hierarchical routing, which requires that the IP address hierarchy be aligned with the physical topology. Both site multi-homing and switching ISPs...

Chunkyspread: Heterogeneous unstructured end system multicast (2006)

Vidhyashankar Venkataraman, Kaoru Yoshida, Paul Francis

Abstract — In order to maximize throughput in end-system multicast, it is necessary to have fine-grained control over the transmit load of each participating member. This both avoids bottlenecks...

Tris(2,2´-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) chemiluminescence (2006)

Gorman, Bree, Francis, Paul, Barnett, Neil

This paper critically reviews analytical applications of the chemiluminescence from tris(2,2-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) and related compounds published in the open literature between mid-1998 and...

Near-ultraviolet chemiluminescence from the reaction of ammonia with hypobromite in aqueous solution (2006)

Francis, Paul, Adcock, Jacqui, Barnett, Neil

The chemiluminescence arising from the oxidation of ammonium chloride by sodium hypobromite in aqueous alkaline solution includes a series of peaks in the near-ultraviolet, which is not commonly...

A rapid test for heroin (3,6-Diacetylmorphine) based on two chemiluminescence reactions (2006)

Agg, Kent, Craddock, Adrian, Bos, Richard, Francis, Paul, Lewis, Simon, Barnett, Neil

A rapid method for screening drug seizure samples for 3,6-diacetylmorphine (heroin), which consists of a simple hydrolysis procedure and flow-injection analysis with two chemiluminescence reagents,...

The determination of urea in wine – a review (2006)

Francis, Paul

The concentration of urea in wine is not routinely measured in Australian laboratories, but has been examined in studies of yeast metabolism and the formation of ethyl carbamate, a known carcinogen....

Scaling IP Routing with the Core Router-Integrated Overlay (2006)

Xinyang Zhang, Paul Francis, Jia Wang, Kaoru Yoshida

Abstract—IP routing scalability is based on hierarchical routing, which requires that the IP address hierarchy be aligned with the physical topology. Both site multi-homing and switching ISPs...

Chemiluminescence methods for the determination of ofloxacin (2005)

Francis, Paul, Adcock, Jacqui L.

Ofloxacin is a synthetic fluoroquinolone antibiotic that has been used in the treatment of respiratory tract, urinary tract and tissue-based infections. Methodology for the determination of ofloxacin...

Determination of urea with hypobromite: a theme for the discussion of numerous fundamental concepts in chemistry (2005)

Francis, Paul, Lim, Kieran, Lewis, Simon

Over the past century, numerous aspects of the reaction between urea and hypobromite have been exploited to quantify urea in clinical and industrial process samples. A review of these analytical...

Determination of selected neurotransmitter metabolites using monolithic column chromatography coupled with chemiluminescence detection (2005)

Adcock, Jacqui, Barnett, Neil, Costin, James, Francis, Paul, Lewis, Simon

The oxidation of selected clinically important neurotransmitter metabolites with acidic potassium permanganate in the presence of polyphosphates evokes chemiluminescence of sufficient intensity to...

Chemiluminescence: gas-phase (2005)

Barnett, Neil, Francis, Paul, Lancaster, J.

Article Outline • Introduction• Chemiluminescence of Nitrogen Compounds• Thermal Energy Analyzer• Nitrogen-Selective Detector• Redox Chemiluminescence Detection•...

Chemiluminescence: liquid-phase (2005)

Barnett, Neil, Francis, Paul

Article Outline • Introduction• Acidic Potassium Permanganate• Acridinium Esters• Diaryl Oxalates and Oxamides• Dioxetanes• Hypohalites• Luminol and Its...

Luminescence: overview (2005)

Barnett, Neil, Francis, Paul

Article Outline • Introduction• Photoluminescence• General Principles• Structural and Environmental Influences on Photoluminescence• The Relationship between...

Chemiluminescence: overview (2005)

Barnett, Neil, Francis, Paul

Article Outline • Introduction• Principles• Reaction Kinetics and the Observed Signal• Chemiluminescence versus Fluorescence Detection• Selectivity• Corrected Emission...

Chemiluminescence methods for the determination of ofloxacin (2005)

Francis, Paul, Adcock, Jacqui L.

Ofloxacin is a synthetic fluoroquinolone antibiotic that has been used in the treatment of respiratory tract, urinary tract and tissue-based infections. Methodology for the determination of ofloxacin...

Determination of urea with hypobromite: a theme for the discussion of numerous fundamental concepts in chemistry (2005)

Francis, Paul, Lim, Kieran, Lewis, Simon

Over the past century, numerous aspects of the reaction between urea and hypobromite have been exploited to quantify urea in clinical and industrial process samples. A review of these analytical...

Determination of selected neurotransmitter metabolites using monolithic column chromatography coupled with chemiluminescence detection (2005)

Adcock, Jacqui, Barnett, Neil, Costin, James, Francis, Paul, Lewis, Simon

The oxidation of selected clinically important neurotransmitter metabolites with acidic potassium permanganate in the presence of polyphosphates evokes chemiluminescence of sufficient intensity to...

Chemiluminescence: gas-phase (2005)

Barnett, Neil, Francis, Paul, Lancaster, J.

Article Outline • Introduction• Chemiluminescence of Nitrogen Compounds• Thermal Energy Analyzer• Nitrogen-Selective Detector• Redox Chemiluminescence Detection•...

Chemiluminescence: liquid-phase (2005)

Barnett, Neil, Francis, Paul

Article Outline • Introduction• Acidic Potassium Permanganate• Acridinium Esters• Diaryl Oxalates and Oxamides• Dioxetanes• Hypohalites• Luminol and Its...

Luminescence: overview (2005)

Barnett, Neil, Francis, Paul

Article Outline • Introduction• Photoluminescence• General Principles• Structural and Environmental Influences on Photoluminescence• The Relationship between...

Chemiluminescence: overview (2005)

Barnett, Neil, Francis, Paul

Article Outline • Introduction• Principles• Reaction Kinetics and the Observed Signal• Chemiluminescence versus Fluorescence Detection• Selectivity• Corrected Emission...

Utilizing spare network bandwidth to improve TCP performance (2005)

Manpreet Singh, Saikat Guha, Paul Francis

It is well-known that TCP Reno represents a performance bottleneck as the delay-bandwidth product increases. On high-bandwidth-delay links, the additive increase policy of one packet every RTT...

Characterization and Measurement of TCP Traversal through NATs and Firewalls (2005)

Saikat Guha, Paul Francis

In recent years, the standards community has developed techniques for traversing NAT/firewall boxes with UDP (that is, establishing UDP flows between hosts behind NATs). Because of the asymmetric...

Chemiluminescence methods for the determination of ofloxacin (2005)

Francis, Paul, Adcock, Jacqui L.

Ofloxacin is a synthetic fluoroquinolone antibiotic that has been used in the treatment of respiratory tract, urinary tract and tissue-based infections. Methodology for the determination of ofloxacin...

The determination of urea with hypobromite: a theme for the discussion of numerous fundamental concepts in chemistry (2005)

Francis, Paul, Lim, Kieran, Lewis, Simon

Over the past century, numerous aspects of the reaction between urea and hypobromite have been exploited to quantify urea in clinical and industrial process samples. A review of these analytical...

Determination of selected neurotransmitter metabolites using monolithic column chromatography coupled with chemiluminescence detection (2005)

Adcock, Jacqui, Barnett, Neil, Costin, James, Francis, Paul, Lewis, Simon

The oxidation of selected clinically important neurotransmitter metabolites with acidic potassium permanganate in the presence of polyphosphates evokes chemiluminescence of sufficient intensity to...

Chemiluminescence: gas-phase (2005)

Barnett, Neil, Francis, Paul, Lancaster, J.

Article Outline • Introduction• Chemiluminescence of Nitrogen Compounds• Thermal Energy Analyzer• Nitrogen-Selective Detector• Redox Chemiluminescence Detection•...

Chemiluminescence: liquid-phase (2005)

Barnett, Neil, Francis, Paul

Article Outline • Introduction• Acidic Potassium Permanganate• Acridinium Esters• Diaryl Oxalates and Oxamides• Dioxetanes• Hypohalites• Luminol and Its...

Luminescence: overview (2005)

Barnett, Neil, Francis, Paul

Article Outline • Introduction• Photoluminescence• General Principles• Structural and Environmental Influences on Photoluminescence• The Relationship between...

Chemiluminescence: overview (2005)

Barnett, Neil, Francis, Paul

Article Outline • Introduction• Principles• Reaction Kinetics and the Observed Signal• Chemiluminescence versus Fluorescence Detection• Selectivity• Corrected Emission...

Chemiluminescence from the oxidation of urea and ammonia with hypobromite and N-bromosuccinimide (2004)

Francis, Paul, Barnett, Neil, Lewis, Simon, Lim, Kieran

The spectral distribution for the chemiluminescent oxidation of ammonia with hypobromite is significantly different to that for the oxidation of ammonia with N-bromosuccinimide. Therefore, in...

Emitting species formed by the oxidation of hydrazides with hypohalites or N-halosuccinimides (2004)

Francis, Paul

The chemiluminescence accompanying the oxidation of salicylic hydrazide (2-hydroxybenzoic acid hydrazide) with hypochlorite, hypobromite, N-chlorosuccinimide, N-bromosuccinimide or hydrogen peroxide...

Determination of urea in soil extracts and related samples - a review (2004)

Lambert, D., Sherwood, John, Francis, Paul

Although the dominant methods for the determination of urea in clinical applications incorporate selective enzymatic hydrolysis of urea, the determination of urea in soil extracts is complicated by...

Chemiluminescence from the oxidation of urea and ammonia with hypobromite and N-bromosuccinimide (2004)

Francis, Paul, Barnett, Neil, Lewis, Simon, Lim, Kieran

The spectral distribution for the chemiluminescent oxidation of ammonia with hypobromite is significantly different to that for the oxidation of ammonia with N-bromosuccinimide. Therefore, in...

Emitting species formed by the oxidation of hydrazides with hypohalites or N-halosuccinimides (2004)

Francis, Paul

The chemiluminescence accompanying the oxidation of salicylic hydrazide (2-hydroxybenzoic acid hydrazide) with hypochlorite, hypobromite, N-chlorosuccinimide, N-bromosuccinimide or hydrogen peroxide...

Determination of urea in soil extracts and related samples - a review (2004)

Lambert, D., Sherwood, John, Francis, Paul

Although the dominant methods for the determination of urea in clinical applications incorporate selective enzymatic hydrolysis of urea, the determination of urea in soil extracts is complicated by...

MPAT: Aggregate TCP Congestion Management as a Building Block for Internet QoS (2004)

Manpreet Singh, Prashant Pradhan, Paul Francis

known bottleneck links like enterprise access links or wireless links. A more comprehensive, end-to-end QoS deployment, for instance across large enterprise networks or the global Internet, remains...

Chemiluminescence from the oxidation of urea and ammonia with hypobromite and N-bromosuccinimide (2004)

Francis, Paul, Barnett, Neil, Lewis, Simon, Lim, Kieran

The spectral distribution for the chemiluminescent oxidation of ammonia with hypobromite is significantly different to that for the oxidation of ammonia with N-bromosuccinimide. Therefore, in...

The emitting species formed by the oxidation of hydrazides with hypohalites or N-halosuccinimides (2004)

Francis, Paul

The chemiluminescence accompanying the oxidation of salicylic hydrazide (2-hydroxybenzoic acid hydrazide) with hypochlorite, hypobromite, N-chlorosuccinimide, N-bromosuccinimide or hydrogen peroxide...

Chemiluminescence from the Sakaguchi reaction (2004)

Francis, Paul, Barnett, Neil, Foitzik, Richard, Gange, Michelle, Lewis, Simon

The Sakaguchi reaction between arginine and hypohalites in the presence of α-phenols (Fig. 1) has been extensively employed for the colorimetric determination of this amino acid [1] M.A...

The determination of urea in soil extracts and related samples - a review (2004)

Lambert, D., Sherwood, John, Francis, Paul

Although the dominant methods for the determination of urea in clinical applications incorporate selective enzymatic hydrolysis of urea, the determination of urea in soil extracts is complicated by...

Selective determination of amino acids using flow injection analysis coupled with chemiluminescence detection (2003)

Costin, J., Francis, Paul, Lewis, S.

The determination of the amino acids proline, histidine, tyrosine, arginine, phenylalanine and tryptophan using flow injection analysis (FIA) with chemiluminescence detection is described. Proline...

Selective determination of amino acids using flow injection analysis coupled with chemiluminescence detection (2003)

Costin, J., Francis, Paul, Lewis, S.

The determination of the amino acids proline, histidine, tyrosine, arginine, phenylalanine and tryptophan using flow injection analysis (FIA) with chemiluminescence detection is described. Proline...

Selective determination of amino acids using flow injection analysis coupled with chemiluminescence detection (2003)

Costin, J., Francis, Paul, Lewis, S.

The determination of the amino acids proline, histidine, tyrosine, arginine, phenylalanine and tryptophan using flow injection analysis (FIA) with chemiluminescence detection is described. Proline...

Monitoring urea levels during haemodialysis with a pulsed-flow chemiluminescence analyser (2002)

Lewis, Simon, Francis, Paul, Lim, Kieran, Jenkins, Graeme

We have developed a rapid and robust method for the determination of urea in spent haemodialysis fluid as a measure of the efficiency of haemodialysis treatments. A novel flow analysis instrument...

Analytical methodology for the determination of urea: current practice and future trends (2002)

Francis, Paul, Lewis, Simon, Lim, Kieran

The determination of urea is important in a wide range of fields, including clinical diagnostics, environmental monitoring and food science. Numerous analytical techniques have been developed for the...

Monitoring urea levels during haemodialysis with a pulsed-flow chemiluminescence analyser (2002)

Lewis, Simon, Francis, Paul, Lim, Kieran, Jenkins, Graeme

We have developed a rapid and robust method for the determination of urea in spent haemodialysis fluid as a measure of the efficiency of haemodialysis treatments. A novel flow analysis instrument...

Analytical methodology for the determination of urea: current practice and future trends (2002)

Francis, Paul, Lewis, Simon, Lim, Kieran

The determination of urea is important in a wide range of fields, including clinical diagnostics, environmental monitoring and food science. Numerous analytical techniques have been developed for the...

Flow analysis based on a pulsed flow of solution: theory, instrumentation and applications (2002)

Francis, Paul, Lewis, Simon, Lim, Kieran, Carlsson, Karin, Karlberg, Bo

The increased demands placed on solution propulsion by programmed flow systems, such as sequential injection analysis, lab-on-value technology, bead injection and multi-commutation, has highlighted...

Monitoring urea levels during haemodialysis with a pulsed-flow chemiluminescence analyser (2002)

Lewis, Simon, Francis, Paul, Lim, Kieran, Jenkins, Graeme

We have developed a rapid and robust method for the determination of urea in spent haemodialysis fluid as a measure of the efficiency of haemodialysis treatments. A novel flow analysis instrument...

Analytical methodology for the determination of urea: current practice and future trends (2002)

Francis, Paul, Lewis, Simon, Lim, Kieran

The determination of urea is important in a wide range of fields, including clinical diagnostics, environmental monitoring and food science. Numerous analytical techniques have been developed for the...

A Scalable Content-Addressable Network (2001)

Sylvia Ratnasamy, Paul Francis, Scott Shenker, Mark Handley

Hash tables – which map “keys ” onto “values ” – are an essential building block in modern software systems. We believe a similar functionality would be equally valuable to large...

A Scalable Content-Addressable Network (2001)

Sylvia Ratnasamy Paul, Paul Francis, Mark H, Richard Karp, Scott Shenker, Written Vladimir Eske

Contents 1 Motivation 2 2 Basic CAN architecture 3 2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Data Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3...

An Architecture for a Global Internet Host Distance Estimation Service (1999)

Paul Francis, Sugih Jamin, Cheng Jin, Yixin Jin, Danny Raz, Yuval Shavitt, ...

Abstract—There is an increasing need to quickly and efficiently learn network distances, in terms of metrics such as latency or bandwidth, between Internet hosts. For example, Internet content...

An Architecture for a Global Internet Host Distance Estimation Service (1999)

Paul Francis, Sugih Jamin, Vern Paxson, Lixia Zhang, Daniel Gryniewicz, Yixin Jin

There is an increasing need for Internet hosts to be able to quickly and efficiently learn the distance, in terms of metrics such as latency or bandwidth, between Internet hosts. For example, to...

Involuntary Resettlement in Urban Development: Plan, Performance and Outcome in the World Bank-funded Antananarivo Plain Project, Madagascar (1999)

FRANCIS, PAUL

This case study assesses the performance and impact of the resettlement component of the Antananarivo Plain Development Project, Madagascar. While the project proved reasonably effective in evicting...

Comparison of Geographical and Provider-rooted Internet Addressing (1994)

Paul Francis

In order to solve the scaling and address depletion problems of IP, the next generation IP protocol will have a larger address. Along with this increase in size is an increase in the number of...

Addressing in Internetwork Protocols (1994)

Paul Francis

The most important part of an internet protocol is its addressing information---that is, the information that affects routing of an internet packet. While there has been much research of routing in...

Flexible Routing and Addressing For a Next Generation IP (1994)

Paul Francis, Ramesh Govindan

Due to a limited address spaceand poor scaling of backbonerouting information, the Internet Protocol (IP) is rapidly reaching the end of its useful lifetime. The Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP),...

Fast Routing Table Lookup Using CAMs (1993)

Anthony J. Mcauley, Paul Francis

This paper investigates fast routing table lookup techniques, where the table is composed of hierarchical addresses such as those found in a national telephone network. The hierachical addresses...

Fast routing table lookup using CAMs (1993)

Anthony J. Mcauley, Paul Francis

This paper investigates fast routing table lookup techniques, where the table is composed of hierarchical addresses such as those found in a national telephone network. The hierachical addresses...

Fast routing table lookup using CAMs (1993)

Anthony J. Mcauley, Paul Francis

This paper investigates fast routing table lookup techniques, where the table is composed of hierarchical addresses such as those found in a national telephone network. The hierachical addresses...

Compatible poliomyelitis cases in India during 2000.

Kohler, Kathryn A., Hlady, W. Gary, Banerjee, Kaushik, Gupta, Dhananjoy, Francis, Paul, Durrani, Sunita, ...

OBJECTIVE: To describe the characteristics of compatible poliomyelitis cases and to assess the programmatic implications of clusters of such cases in India. METHODS: We described the characteristics...