The world is witnessing a phenomenal growth in the cloud enabled services and is expected
to grow further with the improved technological innovations. However, the associated …

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is the most widely used model for advanced access
control deployed in diverse enterprises of all sizes. RBAC critically depends on defining …

We present BEAT, a set of practical Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) protocols for completely
asynchronous environments. BEAT is flexible, versatile, and extensible, consisting of five …

Windows Azure Storage (WAS) is a cloud storage system that provides customers the ability
to store seemingly limitless amounts of data for any duration of time. WAS customers have …

Erasure codes such as Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are being extensively deployed in data
centers since they offer significantly higher reliability than data replication methods at much …

In a distributed storage system, code symbols are dispersed across space in nodes or
storage units as opposed to time. In settings such as that of a large data center, an important …

Today's businesses increasingly rely on cloud computing, which brings both great
opportunities and challenges. One of the critical challenges is resiliency: disruptions due to …

The main contribution of this work is an O (n log n+ k)-time algorithm for computing all k
intersections among n line segments in the plane. This time complexity is easily shown to be …

Regenerating codes and codes with locality are two coding schemes that have recently
been proposed, which in addition to ensuring data collection and reliability, also enable …

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