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CDC
2010
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Dispatch then stop: Optimal dissemination of security patches in mobile wireless networks
The security threat posed by malware in mobile wireless networks can be countered through immunization using security patches. The distribution of patches however consumes bandwidt...
M. H. R. Khouzani, Saswati Sarkar, Eitan Altman
DSN
2004
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
HOURS: Achieving DoS Resilience in an Open Service Hierarchy
Hierarchical systems have been widely used to provide scalable distributed services in the Internet. Unfortunately, such a service hierarchy is vulnerable to DoS attacks. This pap...
Hao Yang, Haiyun Luo, Yi Yang, Songwu Lu, Lixia Zh...
IJCSA
2007
88views more  IJCSA 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
A New Quantitative Trust Model for Negotiating Agents using Argumentation
In this paper, we propose a new quantitative trust model for argumentation-based negotiating agents. The purpose of such a model is to provide a secure environment for agent negot...
Jamal Bentahar, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
ICDCSW
2006
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Enforcing Truthful-Rating Equilibria in Electronic Marketplaces
Reputation-based mechanisms and policies are vulnerable to the submission of untruthful ratings. In this paper, we define and analyze a game-theoretic model that captures the dyn...
Thanasis G. Papaioannou, George D. Stamoulis
IEEESP
2008
136views more  IEEESP 2008»
14 years 12 months ago
The Crutial Way of Critical Infrastructure Protection
Today, critical infrastructures like the power grid are essentially physical processes controlled by computers connected by networks. They are usually as vulnerable as any other i...
Alysson Neves Bessani, Paulo Sousa, Miguel Correia...