An important problem that confronts data grid applications is to efficiently locate the node that stores a particular data replica. This paper proposes a Hierarchical Replica Loca...
The problem of biometric sensor interoperability has received limited attention in the literature. Most biometric systems operate under the assumption that the data (viz., images) ...
— During an emergency response, access to a reliable communication infrastructure is required to exchange accurate information in a timely manner. Various communication technolog...
Abstract.We introduce the notion of distributed password-based publickey cryptography, where a virtual high-entropy private key is implicitly dened as a concatenation of low-entrop...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing networks attract much attention from legal and research communities. The success and popularity of P2P networks provides a new paradigm for sharing...
Hao Shi, Yanchun Zhang, Jingyuan Zhang, Elizabeth ...