Due to the increasing deployment of conversational real-time applications like VoIP and videoconferencing, the Internet is today facing new challenges. Low end-to-end delay is a vi...
Abstract: Recently a growing demand has arisen for methods for the development of smalland medium scale Web Information Systems (WIS). Web applications are being built in a rapidly...
We study the effectiveness of automatic patching and quantify the speed of patch or alert dissemination required for worm containment. We focus on random scanning as this is repres...
Tracing IP packets back to their origins is an important step in defending the Internet against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Two kinds of IP traceback techniques have been prop...
This paper presents a method for analyzing the survivability of distributed network systems and an example of its application. Survivability is the capability of a system to fulfi...
Robert J. Ellison, Richard C. Linger, Thomas A. Lo...