Network Access Control requirements are typically implemented in practice as a series of heterogeneous security-mechanism-centric policies that span system services and application...
This paper presents a policy-based framework for managing access control in distributed heterogeneous systems. This framework is based on the PDP/PEP approach. The PDP (Policy Deci...
The Differentiated Services architecture targets at providing scalable network Quality of Service by means of aggregate scheduling. However, the defined framework itself only give...
The increasing use of computers to manage everyday business poses problems for workers when they are away from their home environment. There are two key problems: • How can a mo...
—Multicasting has not been widely adopted until now, due to lack of access control over the group members. The Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) protocols are be...