Two convincing paradigms have emerged for achieving scalability in widely distributed systems: publish/subscribe communication and role-based, policy-driven control of access to t...
Jean Bacon, David M. Eyers, Jatinder Singh, Peter ...
Many users face surveillance of their Internet communications and a significant fraction suffer from outright blocking of certain destinations. Anonymous communication systems a...
Amir Houmansadr, Giang T. K. Nguyen, Matthew Caesa...
The design and prototype implementation of the XCAT Grid Science Portal is described in this paper. The portal lets grid application programmers easily script complex distributed ...
Sriram Krishnan, Randall Bramley, Dennis Gannon, R...
Transmitting voice communication over untrusted networks puts personal information at risk. Although voice streams are typically encrypted to prevent unwanted eavesdropping, additi...
Reputation systems have been popular in estimating the trustworthiness and predicting the future behavior of nodes in a large-scale distributed system where nodes may transact wit...