A frequently proposed solution to node misbehavior in mobile ad hoc networks is to use reputation systems. But in ephemeral networks - a new breed of mobile networks where contact...
—The article describes a course on system design (structural approach) which involves the following: issues of systems engineering; structural models; basic technological problem...
Integrity measurements provide a means by which distributed systems can assess the trustability of potentially compromised remote hosts. However, current measurement techniques si...
Luke St. Clair, Joshua Schiffman, Trent Jaeger, Pa...
Personal mobile devices are increasingly equipped with the capability to sense the physical world (through cameras, microphones, and accelerometers, for example) and the network w...
Cory Cornelius, Apu Kapadia, David Kotz, Daniel Pe...
Peer-to-peer distributed virtual environments (DVE's) distribute state tracking and state transitions. Many DVE's - such as online games - require ways to fairly determi...