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The grid is an integrated infrastructure that can play the dual roles of a coordinated resource consumer as well as a donator in distributed computing environments. The enormous growth in the use of mobile and embedded devices in ubiquitous computing environment and their interaction with human beings produces a huge amount of data that need to be processed efficiently anytime anywhere. However, such...
A smart home aims at building intelligence automation with a goal to provide its inhabitants with maximum possible comfort, minimize the resource consumption and thus overall cost of maintaining the home. `Context awareness' is perhaps the most salient feature of such an intelligent environment. Clearly, an inhabitant's mobility and activities play a significant role in defining his contexts in and...
This paper focuses on the assessment of the properties of security enforcement mechanisms for prevention of denial of service (DoS) attacks in wireless sensor networks. First part of the paper demonstrates the requirement for security enforcement using auction theory that allows detection of non cooperative nodes. In the proposed protocol, nodes prefer to participate in forwarding incoming packets...
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