The application of big data analytics on data and any information collected, enables mobile operators to profile customers, depending on the historical and real time habits at certain locations and times. The results generated of big data analytics and carried by mobile operator…
The US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 embrace the notion that electronic health information is the bedrock of modern healthcare. The overriding concern for any service/entity dealing with electronic health records is ensuring security and privacy of a user's …
Conventional role based access control (RBAC) was designed with closed-enterprise environment in mind where a security officer(s) manually assigns users to roles. However, today, an increasing number of service-providing enterprises make their services available to users via the…
Publicly verifiable outsourced computation (PVC) allows devices with restricted resources to delegate computations to external servers, and to verify the correctness of results. Servers may be rewarded per computation, and so have an incentive to cheat rather than devote resourc…
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have recently attracted much interest in the research community because of their wide range of applications. One emerging application for WSNs involves their use in healthcare where they are generally termed Wireless Medical Sensor Networks (WMSNs…
IP multicast is best-known for its bandwidth conservation and lower resource utilization. The classical multicast model makes it impossible to restrict access to authorized End Users (EU) or paying receivers and to forward data originated by an authorized sender(s) only. Without…
In modern distributed computing environments the demand for applications that provide secure sharing of documents and sensitive data is exponentially growing. Highly valuable documents created every day need to be securely shared between, and updated by, the authorized users. On…