Special Issue: Securing Distributed Networks and Systems

摘要

With decades of progress toward ubiquitous networks and systems, distributed computing systems have played an increasingly important role in the industry and society. However, not many distributed networks and systems are secure and reliable in the sense of defending against different attacks and tolerating failures automatically, thus guaranteeing properties such as performance, and offering security against intentional threats. This special issue focuses on securing distributed networks and systems. We are delighted to present to you nine technical papers dealing with cutting-edge research and technology related to this topic. These papers were selected out of 149 submissions from 30 countries in the third International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2009). The selection has been very rigorous and only the best papers in the conference were selected.