Improving complex distributed software system availability through information hiding

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 452-456

  Wang, Li ^a   Leiferman, Yair ^a   Ren, Shangping ^a   Kwiat, Kevin ^b   Li, Xiaowei ^c  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

availability; complex distributed software system; message forwarding; traffic analysis

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL COMPONENT; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE SYSTEM; INFORMATION HIDING; INTENTIONAL ATTACKS; MESSAGE FORWARDING; RANDOM ATTACKS; SIMULATION RESULT; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC FLOW;

TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77954693847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1774088.1774183     Document Type: Conference Paper

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