In this work, we investigate the use of directional antennas and beam steering techniques to improve performance of 802.11 links in the context of communication between a moving v...
European energy supply companies typically run a conglomerate of different, geographically distributed power plants. Unfortunately, the corresponding power plant control systems a...
This paper introduces a context-aware authorization architecture that is designed to augment existing network security protocols in an Intranet environment. It describes the archi...
We discuss research issues and models for vulnerabilities and threats in distributed computing systems. We present four diverse approaches to reducing system vulnerabilities and th...
The recent trend towards dynamically extensible systems, such as Java, SPIN or VINO, promises more powerful and flexible systems. At the same time, the impact of extensibility on...