—In service-oriented architectures, participants keep interacting by exchanging tasks, in order to increase their benefit. Since carrying out a task incurs costs, and participan...
In this paper, we present a mandatory access control system that uses input from multiple stakeholders to compose policies based on runtime information. In the emerging ubiquitous...
We define some interesting incentive issues that arise in the management of virtual infrastructures. We demonstrate that participants’ decisions about the quantities of infrast...
Abstract—Consider a communications system where the detector generates a mix of hard and soft outputs, which are then fed into a soft-input channel decoder. In such a setting, it...
Ernesto Zimmermann, David L. Milliner, John R. Bar...
Cooperative communications is a rapidly evolving research area. Most of the cooperative protocols that have appeared in the literature assume slow flat fading channels and Gaussi...