Peer-to-peer and other decentralized, distributed systems are known to be particularly vulnerable to sybil attacks. In a sybil attack, a malicious user obtains multiple fake ident...
Haifeng Yu, Michael Kaminsky, Phillip B. Gibbons, ...
: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) reputation systems are needed to evaluate the trustworthiness of participating peers and to combat selfish and malicious peer behaviors. The reputation system ...
—To avoid the single point of failure for the certificate authority (CA) in MANET, a decentralized solution is proposed where nodes are grouped into different clusters. Each clu...
Abderrezak Rachedi, Abderrahim Benslimane, Hadi Ot...
Abstract--When a host discovers that it has a software vulnerability that is susceptible to an attack, the host needs to obtain and install a patch. Because centralized distributio...
Di Wu, Cong Tang, Prithula Dhungel, Nitesh Saxena,...
Design of protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) is generally tricky compared to wired networks, because on the one hand the increased communication constraints given by th...