— The Domain Name System (DNS) provides a critical service for the Internet – mapping of user-friendly domain names to their respective IP addresses. Yet, there is no standard ...
Abstract Loosely coupled services are gaining importance in many business domains. However, compared to OO-RPC middleware approaches, emerging technologies proposed to implement lo...
Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been playing an important role as a middleware for interoperable transactions such as Business-to-Business and Enterprise A...
Network firewalls remain the forefront defense for most computer systems. These critical devices filter traffic by comparing arriving packets to a list of rules, or security po...
As Voice over IP (VoIP) applications become increasingly popular, they are more and more facing security challenges that have not been present in the traditional Public Switched Te...