In order to enhance the interoperability of roaming and tunneling services, it is desirable to have a standardized method for identifying users. This document proposes syntax for the Network Access Identifier (NAI), the userID submitted by the client during PPP authentication. It is expected that this will be of interest for support of roaming as well as tunneling. "Roaming capability" may be l...

social network analysis used to study the relationship between stakeholders and actors in natural resource management has become a scientific approach. the purpose of this study was analysis of information exchange network among organizations engage in the sustainable management of natural resources. results of social network analysis revealed that there is weak relationship among organizations...

Information leakage via the networks formed by subjects and objects often leads to unpredicted risks in access control decisions, and needs to be quantified and addressed in an explicit manner. This paper presents a novel networkcentric access control paradigm that enhances traditional nodecentric models by explicitly accounting for such network effects in information flows, and yet offering sc...

The access network is the connection between the telephone in your home and the local exchange. It is the first step of a customer’s connection to the rest of the national telephone network. Traditionally this connection is a twisted pair of copper wires, which is adequate for telephone calls, but the wide scale introduction of the Internet is placing higher bandwidth demands on the entire netw...

THIS PAPER OUTLINES THE LAW ENFORCEMENT ACCESS NETWORK (LEAN) proposal recently announced by the Commonwealth Government. The proposal arose as a direct consequence of the Commonwealth Government’s acceptance of the recommendations in 1987 of the white paper entitled Review of Systems for Dealing with Fraud on the Commonwealth (Australia 1987). A description of the Commonwealth’s campaign again...

one of the indicators of post-industrial society and third world countries is the access to the internet. the importance of urban household access to the internet has been so great that it has found a crucial place as one of the basic statistical data on population and housing consensus in developed countries, including the us, uk, australia and canada, and the information related to household ...

A key word describing next-generation wireless communications, so called 4G, is “seamless.” As part of the e-Japan Plan promoted by the Japanese Government, the MIRAI (Multimedia Integrated network by Radio Access Innovation) project is aiming at the development of new technologies that will enable seamless integration of various wireless access systems for practical use by 2005. First, this pa...