Trust management is one of the most challenging issues in the emerging cloud computing
area. Over the past few years, many studies have proposed different techniques to address …

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are seen as the key enabling technology of Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS). In addition to safety, VANETs also provide a cost-effective …

The role-based access control (RBAC) framework is a mechanism that describes the access
control principle. As a common interaction, an organization provides a service to a user who …

Central banks around the world are exploring and in some cases even piloting Central Bank
Digital Currencies (CBDCs). CBDCs promise to realize a broad range of new capabilities …

The Internet has evolved greatly from its original incarnation. For instance, the vast majority
of current Internet usage is data retrieval and service access, whereas the architecture was …

OceanStore is a utility infrastructure designed to span the globe and provide continuous
access to persistent information. Since this infrastructure is comprised of untrusted servers …

The microservice architectural style is an emerging trend in software engineering that allows
building highly scalable and flexible systems. However, current state of the art provides only …

Anonymous credential systems [8, 9, 12, 24] allow anonymous yet authenticated and
accountable transactions between users and service providers. As such, they represent a …

Motivated by recent revelations of widespread state surveillance of personal communication,
many solutions now claim to offer secure and private messaging. This includes both a large …

Autonomic communications seek to improve the ability of network and services to cope with
unpredicted change, including changes in topology, load, task, the physical and logical …