Abstract. A communication protocol consists of a sequence of messages used by peer entities to communicate. Each entity in a network is equipped by at least one protocol stack. Due...
Ring signatures, introduced by Rivest, Shamir and Tauman, enable a user to sign a message anonymously on behalf of a “ring”. A ring is a group of users, which includes the sign...
— We consider feed-forward packet switched networks with fixed routing and random congestion losses. Users of the network are assumed to be greedy in the sense that each user in...
This paper presents MojaveFS, a distributed file system with support for sequential consistency. It provides location transparency and makes use of replication for reliability an...
Cristian Tapus, David A. Noblet, Vlad Grama, Jason...
Media sharing over mobile devices is quickly becoming a common practice, used to support a variety of social processes. Most existing systems employ a model of sharing that treats...