The notion of concurrent signatures was recently introduced by Chen, Kudla and Paterson. In concurrent signature schemes, two entities can produce two signatures that are not bindi...
There is no doubt about the increase in popularity of decentralised systems over the classical client-server architecture in distributed applications. These systems are developed ...
Topology maintenance, or how to handle the possibly concurrent joining and leaving of nodes, is a central problem for structured peer-to-peer networks. A good topology maintenance...
An overlay network is formed on top of – and generally independently from – the underlying physical computer network, by the peers (nodes) of a P2P system. The dynamics of pee...
Data warehouses store materialized views over base data from external sources. Clients typically perform complex read-only queries on the views. The views are refreshed periodical...