We discuss the availability questions that arise when digital time stamps are used for preserving the evidentiary value of electronic documents. We analyze the time-stamping protoc...
Abstract. Efficient secure time-stamping schemes employ a 2-level approach in which the time-stamping service operates in rounds. We say that a time-stamping service is accountable...
Availability prediction in a telecommunication system plays a crucial role in its management, either by alerting the operator to potential failures or by proactively initiating pr...
Service availability is of key importance to operations and maintenance systems for mobile telephony networks. This paper will describe some of the challenges in providing continu...
Cluster-based servers can substantially increase performance when nodes cooperate to globally manage resources. However, in this paper we show that cooperation results in a substa...