: Grid Services became a widely used technology for building service oriented applications. The Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) is the current standard used for building such...
In this paper we introduce Social VPNs, a novel system architecture which leverages existing social networking infrastructures to enable ad-hoc VPNs which are self-configuring, s...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, Pierre S...
The Bell-LaPadula security model is a hybrid model that combines mandatory access controls and discretionary access controls. The Bell-LaPadula security model has been widely acce...
—Due to the stringent computational capabilities of low-cost RFID tags, many lightweight authentication protocols have been proposed recently aiming to achieve secure authenticat...
—The concept of Mobile Web Services (Mob-WS) is catching pace within research communities due to rapid classification of mobile devices enabling pervasive environments. A Web Se...
—In this paper, the issues and methods regarding setting up the testbed for measuring the performance of cooperative transmission is introduced. Also, some experiments on both th...
—Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems gain much attention in recent years. According to many statistics, P2P systems contribute a significant portion of the Internet traffic. Individual In...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are a new technology that is expected to be used increasingly in the near future due to its cheap cost and data processing ability. However, securi...