Grid And Pervasive Computing

Download or read book Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing written by Yang Xiao and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the increasing demand to guarantee privacy, integrity, and availability of resources in networks and distributed systems. It first reviews security issues and challenges in content distribution networks, describes key agreement protocols based on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and key management protocols for complex distributed systems like the Internet, and discusses securing design patterns for distributed systems. The next section focuses on security in mobile computing and wireless networks. After a section on grid computing security, the book presents an overview of security solutions for pervasive healthcare systems and surveys wireless sensor network security.