— Currently used IP routing protocols calculate and only use a single path between two nodes of a network, or in the best case, only paths with the same cost (with OSPF2 or IS-IS...
Abstract. Yao’s classical millionaires’ problem is about securely determining whether x > y, given two input values x, y, which are held as private inputs by two parties, re...
In this paper we propose a fundamental approach to perform the class of Nearest Neighbor (NN) queries, the core class of queries used in many of the location-based services, withou...
—Several dynamic call admission control (CAC) schemes for cellular networks have been proposed in the literature to reserve resources adaptively to provide the desired quality of...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology has been successfully applied in Internet telephony or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), such as the Skype system, where P2P is used for both sear...