It is critical to guarantee the reliability of serviceoriented applications. This is because they may employ remote Web Services as components, which may easily become unavailable...
The use of good random numbers is essential to the integrity of many mission-critical systems. However, when such systems are replicated for Byzantine fault tolerance, a serious i...
The Bell-LaPadula security model is a hybrid model that combines mandatory access controls and discretionary access controls. The Bell-LaPadula security model has been widely acce...
— In recent years, network coding has proved to be an efficient tool to disseminate data through a network. A number of practical schemes have been proposed to implement network...
Abstract— We consider the problem of providing QoS guarantees to Grid users through advance reservation of resources. Advance reservation mechanisms provide the ability to alloca...
Claris Castillo, George N. Rouskas, Khaled Harfous...