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FC
2003
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
The Case Against Micropayments
Abstract. Micropayments are likely to continue disappointing their advocates. They are an interesting technology. However, there are many non-technological reasons why they will ta...
Andrew M. Odlyzko
IJNSEC
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Formal Specification and Verification of a Secure Micropayment Protocol
As online businesses keep growing and Web services become pervasive, there is an increasing demand for micropayment protocols that facilitate microcommerce, namely selling content...
Mohamed G. Gouda, Alex X. Liu
SENSYS
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
A case against routing-integrated time synchronization
To achieve more accurate global time synchronization, this paper argues for decoupling the clock distribution network from the routing tree in a multihop wireless network. We find...
Thomas Schmid, Zainul Charbiwala, Zafeiria Anagnos...
FC
1997
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
An Efficient Micropayment System Based on Probabilistic Polling
Existing software proposals for electronic payments can be divided into "on-line" schemes that require participation of a trusted party (the bank) in every transaction an...
Stanislaw Jarecki, Andrew M. Odlyzko
IEPOL
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Competition against peer-to-peer networks
In this paper, we consider the competition of providers of information products against P2P networks that offer illegal versions of the information products. Depending on the gene...
P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Ronald Peeters, Michael S...