Network infrastructures are nowadays getting more and more complex as security considerations and technical needs like network address translation are blocking traffic and protocols in IP-based networks. Applications in such networks should transparently overcome these limitations. Examples for such applications range from simple chat clients to collaborative work environments spanning differen...

Distributed Virtual Computer (DVC) is a computing environment which simplifies the development and execution of distributed applications on computational grids. DVC provides a simple set of abstractions to simplify application management of naming, security, communication, and resource, easing use of highly dynamic and heterogeneous resource environments. These abstractions enable complex colle...

High quality of security is increasingly critical for applications running on heterogeneous distributed systems, where processors operate at different speeds and communication channels have different bandwidths. Although there are a few scheduling algorithms in the literature for heterogeneous distributed systems, they generally do not take into account of security requirements of applications....

In order to fulfill the organization goals and objectives, multilayered network architecture and various heterogeneous server environments are used. As the network architectures are complex, there is an increased demand in information security. So each organization needs to provide sufficient network security for the known and the unknown attacks according to its goals, requirements and objecti...

Distributed internet services involve multiple heterogeneous applications that communicate with each other. Guaranteeing their security is in general both mandatory and complex. Amongst the many security requirements that have to be guaranteed, secure user authentication is one of the most fundamental. Authentication is traditionally executed only at login phase, based on username and password....

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Security is a concern in the next generation Hybrid networks. This paper analyzes the various architectures that are proposed for next generation networks. Then we analyze their performance towards defending themselves from various malicious attacks and how the malicious nodes can exploit the differences in nature of the network to perform attacks. The solution to these attacks are provided by ...