Publish/subscribe scheme for mobile networks
The information dissemination in mobile networks is an important but complex and challenging problem. Designing suitable communication primitives for these systems is critical. One of these primitives is the publish/subscribe paradigm. The publish/subscribe is a strategy to establish communication between the information providers (publishers) and information consumers (subscribers) in a distributed system. Our work focuses on an appropriate distributed infrastructure suitable for a scalable implementation of a publish/subscribe system. We present a formal model which is adapted for the peer-based particular subscription criteria of publish/subscribe systems. Moreover, we propose a general deterministic information diffusion scheme for mobile systems. The three main features of our communication scheme are the following: First, our scheme is well-adapted to scalable systems without compromising any subscription criteria or network reorganization. Second, we maintain the anonymity of the distributed system --- in order to maintain the network structure, we need only local information. Third, our solution is fully decentralized and modular, thus making it appropriate for practical implementations.

title: Self-Stabilizing Wormhole Routing on Ring Networks
abstract: Wormhole routing is most commonly used in parallel architectures in which messages are sent in small fragments, called flits. It is a lightweight and efficient method of routing messages between parallel processors. Self-stabilization is a technique that guarantees tolerance to transient faults (e.g., memory corruption or communication hazards) for a given protocol. Self-stabilization guarantees that the network recovers to a correct behavior in a finite amount of time, without the need for human intervention. Self-stabilization also guarantees the safety property, meaning that once the network is in a legitimate state, it will remain there until another fault occurs.
This paper presents the first self-stabilizing network algorithm in the wormhole routing model, using the unidirectional ring topology. Our solution benefits from wormhole routing by providing high throughput and low latency, and from self-stabilization by ensuring automatic resilience to all possible transient failures.

title: Anonymous publish/subscribe in P2P networks
abstract: One of the most important issues to deal with in peer-to-peer networks is how to disseminate information. In this paper, we use a completely new approach to solving the information dissemination problem. Our approach uses the publish/subscribe paradigm. The publish/subscribe method is the most inclusive strategy to establish communication between the information providers (publishers) and the information consumers (subscribers). We give a formal definition of publish/subscribe systems. We then use the publish/subscribe communication paradigm to design deterministic protocols (topic and content-based) for peer-to-peer networks. Our protocols are designed on top of an innovative information dissemination scheme, and can cope with the anonymity and mobility of both publishers and subscribers, weak-connectivity, and polarization, which are some of the characteristics of peer-to-peer networks. Moreover, in our solutions, every node could play a role of both publisher and subscriber The algorithms are designed completely independent of the underlying routing substrates. The key advantage of our protocols is that they are scalable without additional re-organization cost. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time the content-based subscription has been addressed in peer-to-peer networks.

title: Compositional analysis of contract signing protocols
abstract: We develop a general method for reasoning about contract-signing protocols using a specialized protocol logic. The method is applied to prove properties of the Asokan-Shoup-Waidner and the Garay-Jacobson-MacKenzie protocols. Our method offers certain advantages over previous analysis techniques. First, it is compositional: the security guarantees are proved by combining the independent proofs for the three sub-protocols of which each protocol is comprised. Second, the formal proofs are carried out in a "template" form, which gives us a reusable proof that may be instantiated for the ASW and GJM protocols, as well as for other protocols with the same arrangement of messages. Third, the proofs follow the design intuition. In particular, in proving game-theoretic properties like fairness, we demonstrate that the specific strategy that the protocol designer had in mind works, instead of showing that one exists. Finally, our results hold even when an unbounded number of sessions are executed in parallel.

title: Buffer management in real-time active database systems
abstract: Real-time active database systems (RTADB) have attracted the attention of researchers in recent times. Such systems are envisioned as control systems for environments as diverse as process control, network management and automated financial trading. Sensors distributed throughout the system report the state of the system to the database. Unacceptable state reports typically results in corrective actions being triggered with deadlines. Thus RTADB's incorporate both real-time as well as active characteristics. We study buffer management in RTADB. Buffer management is recognized as not being a well studied area in real-time systems. As a result of our work, we postulate PAPER, a new buffer management scheme that relies on two strategies: prefetching and priority based buffer replacement. We report the result of studies of the performance of PAPER, as compared to that of existing buffer management algorithms. The insights derived from this paper impact both real-time database systems as well as real-time, active database systems.

title: MANDATE: MAnaging Networks Using DAtabase TEchnology
abstract: There has been a growing demand for the development of tools to manage enterprise communication networks. A management information database is the heart of a network management system-it provides the interface between all functions of the network management system and, therefore, has to provide sophisticated functionality allied with high performance. The authors introduce the design of MANDATE (MAnaging Networks using DAtabase TEchnology), a proposed database system for effectively supporting the management of large enterprise networks. The MANDATE design makes a conscious attempt to take advantage of the special characteristics of network data and transactions, and of advances in database technology, to efficiently derive some of the required management functionality.

title: Handling Sensor Data in Rapidly Changing Environments to Support Soft Real-Time Requirements
abstract: Databases have been mandated as the chosen platform to develop automated control systems for environments where the state of the system changes rapidly and actions need to be taken with timing constraints, for example, stock trading, air traffic control, network management, and process control to name a few. Input data in such systems come from sensors distributed throughout the physical environment being monitored. As the system state changes rapidly, the sensors report information fast and with high volumes. Control decisions in such systems are highly dependent on the accuracy and timeliness of such recorded sensor-reported data. In this paper we suggest ways to algorithmically maintain the accuracy and timeliness of sensor data by enforcing two properties termedrecency andtemporal consistency. Simultaneously, our algorithms also attempt to satisfyquality of service requirements on response times of queries submitted in such systems. The performance of these algorithms is validated through an extensive simulation.

title: A derivation system and compositional logic for security protocols
abstract: Many authentication and key exchange protocols are built using an accepted set of standard concepts such as Diffie-Hellman key exchange, nonces to avoid replay, certificates from an accepted authority, and encrypted or signed messages. We propose a general framework for deriving security protocols from simple components, using composition, refinements, and transformations. AS a case study, we examine the structure of a family of key exchange protocols that includes Station-TO-Station (STS), ISO-9798-3, Just Fast Keying (JFK), IKE and related protocols, derving all members of the family from two basic protocols, In order to associate formal proofs with protocol derivations, we extend our previous security protocol logic with preconditions, temporal assertions, composition rules, and Several other improvements. Using the logic, which we prove is sound with respect to the standard symbolic model of protocol execution and attack (the "Dolev-Yao model"), the security properties of the standard signature based Challange- Response protocol and the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol are estabilished. The ISO-9798-3 protocol is then proved correct by composing the correctness proofs of these two simple protocols Although our current formal logic is not sufficient to modulary prove security for all of our current protocol derivations. the derivation system provides a framework for further improvements.