The role of the operating system (OS) in managing shared resources such as CPU time, memory, peripherals, and even energy is well motivated and understood [23]. Unfortunately, one...
P2P systems that rely on the voluntary contribution of bandwidth by the individual peers may suffer from freeriding. To address this problem, mechanisms enforcing fairness in band...
Pawel Garbacki, Alexandru Iosup, Dick H. J. Epema,...
An emerging approach to the problem of reducing the identity theft is represented by the adoption of biometric authentication systems. Such systems however present however several...
Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel, Anna Cinzia Squicciari...
Security is a critical issue in mobile commerce, especially in mobile database systems since mobile environments are dynamic and traditional protection mechanisms do not work very...
Recently there has been renewed interest in building reliable servers that support continuous application operation. Besides maintaining system state consistent after a failure, o...