IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee and TinyOS have been playing an important role in leveraging a new generation of large-scale networked embedded systems. However, based on previous experience...
Paolo Pagano, Mangesh Chitnis, Antonio Romano, Giu...
— Today’s system monitoring tools are capable of detecting system failures such as host failures, OS errors, and network partitions in near-real time. Unfortunately, the same c...
Dan Gunter, Brian Tierney, Aaron Brown, D. Martin ...
In this paper we present a security framework for executing foreign programs, called helpers, on a Pocket Companion: a wireless hand-held computer. A helper program as proposed is...
Experience from the management of distributed computer-based learning resources in schools has been proven to be inefficient and costly. Though commercial software packages are av...
A lot of progress has been made to secure network communication, e.g., through the use of cryptographic algorithms. However, this offers only a partial solution as long as the com...