We propose a lightweight RFID authentication protocol that supports forward and backward security. The only cryptographic mechanism that this protoco...

A power grid is a complex system connecting electric power generators to consumers through power transmission and distribution networks across a larg...

The enforcement of access control policies using cryptography has received considerable attention in recent years and the security of such enforcemen...

Multiprocessors are defined as a subclass of MIMD (Multiple Instruction Stream, Multiple Data Stream) multiple-computer systems in which the processo...

This paper surveys the deterministic scheduling of jobs m uniprocessor, multiprocessor, and job-shop environments. The survey begins with a brief int...