Over the years, different meanings have been associated with the word consistency in the
distributed systems community. While in the'80s “consistency” typically meant strong …

The fast develo** Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies provide a promising
opportunity to build large-scale systems to connect numerous heterogeneous devices into …

Researchers have widely studied how information diffuses in Twitter and have often done so
by modeling the social-networking site as a communication graph in which tweets spread …

We present Charon, a cloud-backed storage system capable of storing and sharing big data
in a secure, reliable, and efficient way using multiple cloud providers and storage …

Consumer cloud storage (CCS) services have become popular among users for storing and
synchronizing files via apps installed on their devices. A single CCS, however, has intrinsic …

Recently, the trend of mobile multimedia services and applications being used for e-health is
growing in popularity. This is because people can get access to their electronic personal …

Collaborative data sharing underlies applications in systems such as online social networks
and cloud storage. A central provider hosts shared data, eg, a Facebook group page, and …

Strong confidentiality, integrity, user control, reliability and performance are critical
requirements in privacysensitive applications. Such applications would benefit from a data …

Cloud storage services are top-rated, but there are often concerns about the security of the
files there stored. Clouds-of-clouds or multi-clouds are being explored in order to improve …

The digital witness approach defines the collaboration between IoT devices-from wearables
to vehicles-to provide digital evidence through a Digital Chain of Custody to an authorised …