In this paper, we propose a new efficient and secure micro-payment scheme, named e-coupons, which can provide the users the facility of delegating their spending capability to oth...
The ATM technology has been specified to provide users with the ability to request quality of service (QoS) for their applicatio ns and to enable high speed communications. Howeve...
One of the most important features of XML-based Web services is that they can be easily accessed over the Internet, but this makes them vulnerable to a series of security threats....
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Sabrina De Capitani di V...
Abstract. Recently, there is an increase in the number of group communication applications which support multiple service groups of different access privileges. Traditional access...
This paper describes an architecture for the management of QoS-enabled virtual private networks (VPNs) over the Internet. The architecture focuses on two important issues of VPNs:...