: This paper discusses the issues and promising approaches in (1) obtaining rigorous specifications of the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements associated with application functio...
— Distributed software environments are increasingly complex and difficult to manage, as they integrate various legacy software with specific management interfaces. Moreover, t...
Laurent Broto, Daniel Hagimont, Estella Annoni, Be...
1 This paper discusses the design and implementation details of MAST (Mobile Agent-based Security Tool), a new mobile agentbased network security approach. MAST has been designed t...
Marco M. Carvalho, Thomas B. Cowin, Niranjan Suri,...
—The FRIENDS system developed at LAAS-CNRS is a metalevel architecture providing libraries of metaobjects for fault tolerance, secure communication, and group-based distributed a...
Stateful, in-depth, inline traffic analysis for intrusion detection and prevention is growing increasingly more difficult as the data rates of modern networks rise. Yet it remai...