In recent years, Identity Management (IdM) has gained a lot of attention in industry, standardisation and academia. In particular, a couple of research projects, like Daidalos or Prime, have invested considerable effo...
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In recent years, Identity Management (IdM) has gained a lot of attention in industry, standardisation and academia. In particular, a couple of research projects, like Daidalos or Prime, have invested considerable effort to bring IdM forward, to take advantage of features like improved usability and security. Nevertheless, there are important issues that have not been addressed so far. The SWIFT project leverages IdM as a key technology of the Future Internet, tackling problems like the integration of the network and application layer from an IdM perspective as well as the use of electronic identity cards. Moreover, aspects like the integration of several user devices, backward compatibility and a new access control infrastructure are required by future IdM solutions. We consider all these aspects by extending existing IdM solutions with six new security and privacy enablers that are part of the overall SWIFT framework. These enablers have been partially implemented towards a new IdM architecture. First evaluation results of the implementation are promising to pave the way towards future IdM solutions.
In this paper, a new Complexity Scalable Motion Estimation (CSME) method is proposed which can perform Motion Estimation adaptively under different computation or power budgets while keeping high coding performance. W...
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In this paper, a new Complexity Scalable Motion Estimation (CSME) method is proposed which can perform Motion Estimation adaptively under different computation or power budgets while keeping high coding performance. We first propose to use a new class-based method to measure the Macroblock (MB) importance. Based on the new MB importance measure, a complete CSME framework is then proposed. The proposed method allocates computation in a one-pass flow and is based on a loose strategy where frames can borrow computation from other frames to achieve better performance under the same computation budget. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can allocate computation more accurately than previous methods.
We numerically investigate four-wave-mixing (FWM) based multichannel wavelength conversion for amplitude-modulated signals, phase-modulated signals, together with mixed amplitude and phase modulated signals. This pa...
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We numerically investigate four-wave-mixing (FWM) based multichannel wavelength conversion for amplitude-modulated signals, phase-modulated signals, together with mixed amplitude and phase modulated signals. This paper also discusses the influence of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) effects on high-efficiency FWM-based wavelength conversion applications. Our simulation results show that DPSK signals are more suitable for FWM-based multichannel wavelength conversion because the OOK signals will suffer from the inevitable data- pattern-dependent pump depletion. In future applications, when the modulation format is partially upgraded from OOK to DPSK, the influence of OOK signals on the updated DPSK signals must be considered when using multi-channel wavelength conversion. This influence becomes severe with the increase of OOK channel number. It can be concluded that DPSK signals are more appropriate for both transmission and multichannel wavelength conversion, especially in long haul and high bit-rate system.
Countless Internet applications and platforms make it easy to communicate, to collaborate and to exchange information and opinions with a huge number of individuals. However, it is getting more and more difficult to d...
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Countless Internet applications and platforms make it easy to communicate, to collaborate and to exchange information and opinions with a huge number of individuals. However, it is getting more and more difficult to distinguish honest and reliable individuals from malicious users distributing false information or malware. Digital signatures, webs of trust and reputation systems can help to securely identify communication partners and to estimate the trustworthiness of others, but there is a lack of trust and authenticity evaluation methods that do not show counterintuitive effects in the case of conicting opinions. This article proposes a new integrated method to evaluate uncertain and conicting trust and authenticity statements. It introduces a set of operators and inference rules for combining and reasoning with these statements, it defines an approach to compute the resulting confidence values of derived statements and it compares different computation algorithms. The computation is based on a probability theoretical model in order to exclude inconsistencies and counter-intuitive effects.
We numerically investigate the main constrains for high efficiency wavelength conversion of differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) signals based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF). Using ...
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We numerically investigate the main constrains for high efficiency wavelength conversion of differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) signals based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF). Using multi-tone pump phase modulation techniques, high efficiency wavelength conversion of DPSK signals is achieved with the stimulated BriIlouin scattering (SBS) effects effectively suppressed. Our analysis shows that there is a compromise between conversion efficiency and converted idler degradation. By optimizing the pump phase modulation configuration, the converted DPSK idler's degradation can be dramatically decreased through balancing SBS suppression and pump phase modulation degradation. Our simulation results also show that these multi-tone pump phase modulation techniques are more appropriate for the future high bit rate systems.
A two-dimensional (2D) optimized nanotaper mode converter is presented and analyzed using the finite- difference time-domain (FDTD) method. It can convert the mode size in a silicon pillar waveguide (PWG) from 4...
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A two-dimensional (2D) optimized nanotaper mode converter is presented and analyzed using the finite- difference time-domain (FDTD) method. It can convert the mode size in a silicon pillar waveguide (PWG) from 4 μm to 1 μm over a length of 7 μm and achieve a transmission efficiency of 83.6% at a wavelength of 1.55 μm. The dual directional mode conversion of the nanotaper and its ability to perform mode compression and expansion are also demonstrated. The broadband with high transmittance is satisfied in this structure. Using this silicon-based nanotaper, mode conversion between integrated photonic devices can be more compact and efficient.
A high-permittivity (high-k) material is applied as the gate dielectric layer in a silicon metal-oxide- semiconductor (MOS) capacitor to form a special electro-optic (EO) modulator. Both induced charge density a...
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A high-permittivity (high-k) material is applied as the gate dielectric layer in a silicon metal-oxide- semiconductor (MOS) capacitor to form a special electro-optic (EO) modulator. Both induced charge density and modulation efficiency in the proposed modulator are improved due to the special structure design and the application of the high-k material. The device has an ultra-compact dimension of 691 μm in length.
We show that a linear relation exists between the device sensitivity and the quality (Q) factor of a dual- waveguide coupled microring resonator optical biosensor when the optimal conditions are satisfied. We also s...
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We show that a linear relation exists between the device sensitivity and the quality (Q) factor of a dual- waveguide coupled microring resonator optical biosensor when the optimal conditions are satisfied. We also show that the detection limit depends on the loss coefficient and signal-to-nosie ratio (SNR) of the overall system, rather than the circumference of the ring. For a microring resonator sensor whose Q factor is 20000, the detection limit is found to be about 10-7 with 30-dB SNR, which is in good agreement with reported experimental data. These results indicate that loss reduction is the top priority in the design and fabrication of highly sensitive microring resonator optical biosensors.
Packet processing systems of forthcoming high-speed network nodes demand extremely high processing rates, but also modularity and easy adaptability due to new or evolving protocols and services. As the fixed architect...
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The virtual identity concept has been introduced to protect the user's privacy towards service providers as well as towards access network providers on a service session basis. So far the concept has been only con...
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(纸本)9781605587868
The virtual identity concept has been introduced to protect the user's privacy towards service providers as well as towards access network providers on a service session basis. So far the concept has been only considered from the security and privacy perspective. However, performance analysis is necessary as well to gain insights into the additional costs and their scaling behavior with respect to signaling load and state management. In this paper we propose an analytical model to evaluate the cost introduced by virtual identities. The model allows to quantify the additional signaling overhead and the additional states created by distributing service sessions of users across several virtual identities. We exemplify the use of the model for an authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) infrastructure based on EAP-TLS and derive figures on the required signaling bandwidth and state overhead to support the virtual identity concept in various service usage scenarios. Copyright 2009 ACM.
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