Abstract. Query optimization is an important functionality of modern database systems and often based on estimating the selectivity of queries before actually executing them. Well-...
The responsiveness of networked applications is limited by communications delays, making network distance an important parameter in optimizing the choice of communications peers. S...
We consider group key agreement (GKA) protocols, used by a group of peers to establish a shared secret key for multicast communications. There has been much previous work to impro...
Digital identity and trust management mechanisms play an important role on the Internet. They help users make decisions on trustworthiness of digital identities in online communit...
Combining access control with weakly consistent replication presents a challenge if the resulting system is to support eventual consistency. If authorization policy can be tempora...
Ted Wobber, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry