Clients in a distributedsystem place their con dencein many servers, and servers themselves rely on other servers for le storage, authentication, authorization, and payment. When ...
Gennady Medvinsky, Charlie Lai, B. Clifford Neuman
Services enable the transformation of the World Wide Web as distributed interoperable systems interacting beyond organizational boundaries. Service licensing enables broader usage ...
G. R. Gangadharan, Michael Weiss, Vincenzo D'Andre...
This paper deals with estimating small tail probabilities of the steady-state waiting time in a GI/GI/1 queue with heavy-tailed (subexponential) service times. The problem of esti...
Communication devices aim to provide a multimedia service without spatial or temporal limitations in an IP-based environment. However, it is incapable of allowing for fair use by c...
In this paper, we first propose a novel Public License Infrastructure (PLI) that uses cryptographic threshold secret sharing schemes to provide decentralized public license service...