The usefulness of online information such as e-publishing and timely notification on the latest scientific or professional news has been widely accepted. However, access to such v...
A secure multicast framework should only allow authorized members of a group to decrypt received messages; usually, one ‘‘group key’’ is shared by all approved members. Ho...
The vision of ubiquitous computing is becoming a reality thanks to the advent of portable devices and the advances in wireless networking technologies. It aims to facilitate user ...
As we enter the new millennium, the approach to product development is evolving rapidly. Companies are in the process of creating a distributed design and manufacturing environmen...
We analyze various stochastic processes for generating permutations almost uniformly at random in distributed and parallel systems. All our protocols are simple, elegant and are b...