Suppose two entities that do not trust each other want to exchange some arbitrary data over a public channel. A fair exchange protocol ensures that both parties get what they want ...
Secure function evaluation (SFE) enables a group of players, by themselves, to evaluate a function on private inputs as securely as if a trusted third party had done it for them. ...
Matt Lepinski, Silvio Micali, Chris Peikert, Abhi ...
—We consider the problem of ’fair’ scheduling the resources to one of the many mobile stations by a centrally controlled base station (BS). The BS is the only entity taking d...
Veeraruna Kavitha, Eitan Altman, Rachid El Azouzi,...
—Proportional fair scheduling (PFS) provides good balance between throughput and fairness via multi-user diversity and game-theoretic equilibrium. Very little analytical work exi...
Important properties of many protocols are liveness or availability, i.e., that something good happens now and then. In asynchronous scenarios these properties obviously depend on...
Michael Backes, Birgit Pfitzmann, Michael Steiner,...