In 1999, Bao et al. proposed [5] a multi-party fair exchange protocol of electronic items with an offline trusted third party. In this protocol, a coalition including the initiator...
A fair contract signing protocol allows two potentially mistrusted parities to exchange their commitments (i.e., digital signatures) to an agreed contract over the Internet in a f...
— Single-hop wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) ring networks operating in packet mode are a promising architecture for the design of innovate Metropolitan Area Networks. The...
Andrea Bianco, Davide Cuda, Jorge M. Finochietto, ...
Today’s RFID protocols that govern the communication between RFID readers and tags are solely optimized for performance, but fail to address consumer privacy concerns by support...
Christian Floerkemeier, Roland Schneider, Marc Lan...
We analyze several distributed, continuous time protocols for a fair allocation of bandwidths to flows in a network (or resources to agents). Our protocols converge to an allocati...