We investigate an optimal scheduling problem in a discrete-time system of L parallel queues that are served by K identical servers. This model has been widely used in studies of em...
Hussein Al-Zubaidy, Ioannis Lambadaris, Ioannis Vi...
Most of the current trust models in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are identity based, which means that in order for one peer to trust another, it needs to know the other peer’s ide...
Li Lu, Jinsong Han, Lei Hu, Jinpeng Huai, Yunhao L...
Trust negotiation makes it possible for two parties to carry on secure transactions by first establishing trust through a bilateral, iterative process of requesting and disclosin...
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantz...
The aim of rendezvous in a graph is meeting of two mobile agents at some node of an unknown anonymous connected graph. The two identical agents start from arbitrary nodes in the g...
Secure two-party authentication and key exchange are fundamental problems. Traditionally, the parties authenticate each other by means of their identities, using a public-key infr...