Regular Papers

Volume 105, Issue 8

August 2017

Regular Papers

Scanning the Issue

A Survey on Web Tracking: Mechanisms, Implications, and Defenses

By T. Bujlow, V. Carela-Espanol, J. Sole-Pareta, and P. Barlet-Ros

This article surveys different web tracking mechanisms and presents defense strategies for protecting against the same. Future trends in tracking mechanisms and the resulting potential threats to the users’ privacy are also discussed.

Relativistic Timekeeping, Motion, and Gravity in Distributed Systems

By D. G. Messerschmitt

This tutorial seeks to educate electrical engineers as well as physicists about special relativity for applications where relativistic effects become important.