The lack of fixed infrastructure, both physical and organizational, and the highly dynamic nature of ad hoc networks, presents a major challenge in providing secure, authenticate...
Abstract. The Semantic Web is commonly perceived as a web of partially interlinked machine readable data. This data is inherently distributed and resembles the structure of the web...
For the use in the Internet domain, distributed hash tables (DHTs) have proven to be an efficient and scalable approach to distributed content storage and access. In this paper, ...
Abstract. We are witnessing a dramatic increase in the use of datacentric distributed systems such as global grid infrastructures, sensor networks, network monitoring, and various ...
— Corporate IT as well as individuals show increasing interest in reliable outsourcing of storage infrastructure. Decentralized solutions with their resilience against partial ou...