A coupon is an electronic data that represents the right to access a service provided by a service provider (e.g. gift certificates or movie tickets). Recently, a privacyprotectin...
Although a self-stabilizing system that suffers from a transient fault is guaranteed to converge to a legitimate state after a finite number of steps, the convergence can be slow ...
— While current Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems facilitate static file sharing, newly-developed applications demand that P2P systems be able to manage dynamically-changing files. Ma...
Many real-time systems must control their CPU utilizations in order to meet end-to-end deadlines and prevent overload. Utilization control is particularly challenging in distribut...
Xiaorui Wang, Dong Jia, Chenyang Lu, Xenofon D. Ko...
In a password-based authentication system, to authenticate a user, a server typically stores password verification data (PVD), which is a value derived from the user’s password...