Wireless sensor networks is composed of a large number of randomly deployed sensor nodes with limited computing ability and memory space. These characteristics gives rise to much challenge to key agreement. General key agreement schemes like KDC, PKI and Diffie-Hellman key exchange schemes are not applicable to the sensor networks. Several key distribution schemes have been proposed specificall...

The information reconciliation in a quantum key distribution protocol can be studied separately from other steps in the protocol. The problem of information reconciliation can be reduced to that of distributed source coding. Its solution by LDPC codes is reviewed. We list some obstacles preventing the LDPC-based distributed source coding from becoming a more favorable alternative to the Cascade...

Reconciliation is an important step to correct errors in Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). In QKD, after comparing basis, two legitimate parties possess two correlative keys which have some differences and they could obtain identical keys through reconciliation. In this paper, we present a new rate compatible reconciliation scheme based on Row Combining with Edge Variation (RCEV) Low Density Pari...

Among the tasks in software testing, test data generation is particularly difficult and costly. In recent years, several approaches that use metaheuristic search techniques to automatically obtain the test inputs have been proposed. Although work in this field is very active, little attention has been paid to the selection of an appropriate search space. The present work describes an alternativ...

Information imprecision and uncertainty exist in many real-world applications and for this reason fuzzy data modeling has been extensively investigated in various data models. Currently, huge amounts of electronic data are available on the Internet, and XML has been the de facto standard of information representation and exchange over the Web. This paper focuses on fuzzy XML data modeling, whic...

We derive the distributions of W = X/(X +Y ) (equivalently, X/Y ) and P = XY and the the corresponding moment properties when X and Y follow Arnold and Strauss’s bivariate exponential distribution. The expressions turn out to involve several special functions. We also provide extensive tabulations of the percentage points associated with the two distributions. These tables – obtained using inte...

Documents in digital formats are increasingly becoming a common form of expression for anything from rants and opinions to transaction records and contracts. Archiving such documents for the long term, particularly when their only form is digital, can be very important. Sadly, the principal digital expression of an author’s intent, the digital signature, is not fit for long-term archives of doc...

| Data distributions gained a considerable interest in the eld of data parallel programming. In most cases they are key factors for the eeciency of the implementation. In this paper we analyze data distributions suited for parallel image processing and those deened by some of todays more popular parallel languages (HPF, Vienna Fortran, pC++) and libraries (ScaLAPACK). The majority of them belon...

We present the design and implementation of the PeerShare, a system that can be used by applications to securely distribute sensitive data to social contacts of a user. PeerShare incorporates a generic framework that allows different applications to distribute data with different security requirements. By using interfaces available from existing popular social networks, PeerShare is designed to...