Abstract. We study large-scale distributed cooperative systems that use optimistic replication. We represent a system as a graph of actions (operations) connected by edges that rei...
Running the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the Internet’s interdomain routing protocol, consumes a large amount of memory. A BGP-speaking router typically stores one or more rou...
Some reactive ad hoc protocols allow the discovery and/or storage of multiple paths to the same destination node. The selection of the path to utilize is commonly based on the cri...
During the last years there have been a lot of proposals in the literature for systems that attempt to manage the process of trust establishment. However, the engineering details ...
Even though passwords are the most convenient means of authentication, they bring along themselves the threat of dictionary attacks. Dictionary attacks may be of two kinds: online...