Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing

• Main Author: Xiao, Yang (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2007
• Subjects: Information technology: general issues; Computer networking & communications; Computer security; Electrical engineering; Mobile phone technology; IT Security; Networks; Digital and Wireless Communication; ENG; InfoSECURITY; ElectricalEngineering; SCI-TECH; ITECH; INFORMATIONSCIENCE; STM; access; based; control; hoc; networks; protocol; role; routing; sensor; wireless
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This book addresses the increasing demand to guarantee privacy, integrity, and availability of resources in networks and distributed systems. It first reviews security issues and challenges in content distribution networks, describes key agreement protocols based on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and key management protocols for complex distributed systems like the Internet, and discusses securing design patterns for distributed systems. The next section focuses on security in mobile computing and wireless networks. After a section on grid computing security, the book presents an overview of security solutions for pervasive healthcare systems and surveys wireless sensor network security.