Based on the framework of service-oriented architecture (SOA), complex distributed systems can be dynamically and automatically composed by integrating distributed Web services pr...
In hierarchical distributed systems, shared data access can be controlled by assigning user groups single cryptographic keys that allow high level users derive low level keys, but...
— Typical embedded systems must perform rather complex control and communication tasks with severely restricted computing resources. Due to these contraints most systems are sing...
Defence trees and CP-net (ceteris paribus network) are two useful approaches that can be used to help a system administrator to analyze a security scenario and to give him a model ...
Fault-tolerant time-triggered communication relies on the synchronization of local clocks. The startup problem is the problem of reaching a sufficient degree of synchronization a...