Network inhibition is a denial-of-service attack where the adversary attempts to disconnect network elements by disabling a limited number of communication links or nodes. We analyze a common variation of network inhibition where the links have infinite capacity and the goal of the attacker is to deny connections from a single server to as many clients as possible. The problem is defined formal...

Consider a set of users and servers connected by a network. Each server provides a unique service which is of certain benefit to each user. Now comes an attacker, who wishes to destroy a set of edges of the network in the fashion that maximizes his net gain, namely, the total disconnected benefit of users minus the total edge-destruction cost. We first discuss that the problem is polynomially s...

An Embedded Web Server (EWS) is a Web server which runs on an embedded system with limited computing resources to serve embedded Web documents to a Web browser. By embedding a Web server into a network device, it is possible to provide a Web-based management user interface, which are user-friendly, inexpensive, cross-platform, and network-ready. This article explores the topic of an efficient a...

Network Enabled Server environments developed quickly in the mid 1990s. Different approaches adopting diverse technologies have emerged and these environments have continued to evolve. In this paper we have envisioned the characteristics of an ideal NES environment for the perspective of usability and efficiency. It is hoped that this information, synthesized from Surveying many Network Enabled...

To increase the throughput of parallel video server interconnected by a shared network environment, such as Ethernet, elimination of network collision is highly desired. A special mechanism, serialized con ict-free scheduling, is presented in the paper. Performance study of (1) server-push video severs with con ictfree scheduling algorithm and serialized con ict-free scheduling mechanisms, (2) ...

The PATHWORKS for VMS file server integrates industry-standard personal computers with VAX VMS systems over a communications network. It implements Microsoft's server message block (SMB) core protocol, which provides resource sharing using a client-server model. The server provides transparent network access to VAX VMS FILES-11 files from a PC's native operating system. The architecture support...

A networks link-layer topology is a superset of its network-layer topology. However, it is generally much easier to reconstruct the network-layer topology of a network than its link-layer topology, primarily because routers exchange among themselves the routing table information but switches dont. An obvious application of network topology information is to provide a context for displaying and ...