Abstract—With the abundance and ubiquity of mobile devices, a new class of applications is emerging, called participatory sensing (PS), where people can contribute data (e.g., im...
Nowadays, data storage requirements from end-users are growing, demanding more capacity, more reliability and the capability to access information from anywhere. Cloud storage ser...
—Access control is one of the most important security mechanisms in cloud computing. Attribute-based access control provides a flexible approach that allows data owners to integ...
Yan Zhu, Hongxin Hu, Gail-Joon Ahn, Dijiang Huang,...
Current Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks are directed towards a specific victim. The research community has devised several countermeasures that protect victim hosts against undesir...
—The ever increasing scale and complexity of large computational systems ask for sophisticated management tools, paving the way toward Autonomic Computing. A first step toward A...