Service-Orientation (SO) is a design and integration paradigm that is based on the notion of well defined, loosely coupled services. Within SO, services are viewed as computation...
In mobile commerce, short-message-service (SMS) is an important technique for delivering payment instruction. A payment model "SMS Credit" was proposed earlier [1]. Such...
This paper concentrates on one particular aspect of providing communication security: rewalls between domains of trust. We argue that signaling support for providing scalable secu...
: The development of complex access control architectures raises the problem of their management. In this article, we describe an architecture providing packet filters configuratio...
This paper investigates an attempt to establish a QoS class that supports long-lived, bulk-data TCP flows that require a minimum rate from the network. The approach is based on a ...