We consider a scenario where devices with multiple networking capabilities access networks with heterogeneous characteristics. In such a setting, we address the problem of effici...
Jatinder Pal Singh, Tansu Alpcan, Piyush Agrawal, ...
Ficus is a flexible replication facility with optimistic concurrency control designed to span a wide range of scales and network environments. Optimistic concurrency control provi...
Peter L. Reiher, John S. Heidemann, David Ratner, ...
The situation in engineering security for Web services that access databases is as follows: On the one hand, specifications like WSSecurity are concerned with the security managem...
Martin Wimmer, Daniela Eberhardt, Pia Ehrnlechner,...
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs in soft real-time systems, where the utility of completing each job decreases over time. We present a utility-based framework fo...
The notion of Usage Control (UCON) has been introduced recently to extend traditional access controls by including three decision factors called authorizations, obligations, and co...