We present a hybrid group key management protocol that incorporates both a centralized and a contributory scheme for key management, and a tree-based Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman...
Secure group communication protocols have been designed to meet needs such as secure management of group membership, confidential group communication, and access control. New lan...
Fault-tolerant distributed systems based on fieldbuses may benefit to a great extent from the availabilityof semantically rich communication services,such as those provided by g...
Peer-to-peer systems enable efficient resource aggregation and are inherently scalable since they do not depend on any centralized authority. However, lack of a centralized autho...
Total Order Broadcast protocols are important tools to ensure coherence across distributed systems. Contrarily to classical distributed systems, pervasive systems bring important ...