We describe a new network service, the “ticket server”. This service provides “tickets” that a client can attach to a request for a network service (such as sending email o...
In this paper, we propose and analyze a multicast application called SOMA (SynchrOnous Multicast Application) which offers multicast file transfer service in an asymmetric intra-ca...
Pilar Manzanares-Lopez, Juan Carlos Sanchez-Aarnou...
A large portion of the government, business, cultural, and scientific digital data being created today needs to be archived and preserved for future use of periods ranging from a ...
This paper presents a performance analysis of best effort support over the MAC protocol proposed in the IEEE 802.16 standard. We focus on the uplink channel since it is the critic...
Victor Rangel, Javier Gomez, Javier Chapa, Miguel ...
We consider the round complexity of a basic cryptographic task: verifiable secret sharing (VSS). This well-studied primitive provides a good "test case" for our understan...