This brief focuses on radio resource allocation in a heterogeneous wireless medium. It presents radio resource allocation algorithms with decentralized implementation, which support both single-network and multi-homing services. The brief provides a set of cooperative networking algorithms, which rely on the concepts of short-term call traffic load prediction, network cooperation, convex optimization, and decomposition theory. In the proposed solutions, mobile terminals play an active role in the resource allocation operation, instead of their traditional role as passive service recipients in the networking environment.

This fundamental monograph introduces both the probabilistic and algebraic aspects of information theory and coding. It has evolved from the authors' years of experience teaching at the undergraduate level, including several Cambridge Maths Tripos courses. The book provides relevant background material, a wide range of worked examples and clear solutions to problems from real exam papers. It is a valuable teaching aid for undergraduate and graduate students, or for researchers and engineers who want to grasp the basic principles.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third Conference on E-Voting and Identity, VOTE-ID 2011, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in September 2011. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on Norwegian internet voting, voting systems I and II, pret a voter and trivitas, and experiences.

Space Division Multiple Access is one of the most promising methods in solving the capacity problem of wireless communication systems. This book defines formulae that can be used to evaluate the limit capacity of multipath wireless channels in a particular receiving region with size limitation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2015, held in Passau, Germany, in September 2012. The 23 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptography and cryptanalysis, mobility, cards and sensors, software security, processing encrypted data, authentication and identification, new directions in access control, GPU for security, and models for risk and revocation.

New technology is always evolving and companies must have appropriate security for their businesses to be able to keep up to date with the changes. With the rapid growth of the internet and the world wide web, data and applications security will always be a key topic in industry as well as in the public sector, and has implications for the whole of society. Data and Applications Security covers issues related to security and privacy of information in a wide range of applications, including: * Electronic Commerce, XML and Web Security; * Workflow Security and Role-based Access Control; * Distributed Objects and Component Security; * Inference Problem, Data Mining and Intrusion Detection; * Language and SQL Security; * Security Architectures and Frameworks; * Federated and Distributed Systems Security; * Encryption, Authentication and Security Policies. This book contains papers and panel discussions from the Fourteenth Annual Working Conference on Database Security, which is part of the Database Security: Status and Prospects conference series sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).The conference was held in Schoorl, The Netherlands in August 2000.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, LATINCRYPT 2012, held in Santiago, Chile, on October 7-10, 2012. The 17 papers presented together with four invited talks and one student poster session were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on elliptic curves, cryptographic protocols, implementations, foundations, and symmetric-key cryptography.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European Symposium on Computer Security, ESORICS 2012, held in Pisa, Italy, in September 2012. The 50 papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 248 papers. The articles are organized in topical sections on security and data protection in real systems; formal models for cryptography and access control; security and privacy in mobile and wireless networks; counteracting man-in-the-middle attacks; network security; users privacy and anonymity; location privacy; voting protocols and anonymous communication; private computation in cloud systems; formal security models; identity based encryption and group signature; authentication; encryption key and password security; malware and phishing; and software security.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, held in Seoul, Korea, in November/December 2011. The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 126 submissions during two rounds of reviewing. The conference provides a forum for the presentation of new results in research, development, and applications in the field of information security and cryptology. The papers are organized in topical sections on hash function, side channel analysis, public key cryptography, network and mobile security, digital signature, cryptanalysis, efficient implementation, cryptographic application, and cryptographic protocol.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2012, held in Leuven, Belgium, in September 2012. The 32 papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: intrusive attacks and countermeasures; masking; improved fault attacks and side channel analysis; leakage resiliency and security analysis; physically unclonable functions; efficient implementations; lightweight cryptography; we still love RSA; and hardware implementations.

In System-on-Chip Architectures and Implementations for Private-Key Data Encryption, new generic silicon architectures for the DES and Rijndael symmetric key encryption algorithms are presented. The generic architectures can be utilised to rapidly and effortlessly generate system-on-chip cores, which support numerous application requirements, most importantly, different modes of operation and encryption and decryption capabilities. In addition, efficient silicon SHA-1, SHA-2 and HMAC hash algorithm architectures are described. A single-chip Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) architecture is also presented that comprises a generic Rijndael design and a highly efficient HMAC-SHA-1 implementation. In the opinion of the authors, highly efficient hardware implementations of cryptographic algorithms are provided in this book. However, these are not hard-fast solutions. The aim of the book is to provide an excellent guide to the design and development process involved in the translation from encryption algorithm to silicon chip implementation.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption, held in Washington, DC, USA, in March 2012. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on block ciphers, differential cryptanalysis, hash functions, modes of operation, new tools for cryptanalysis, new designs and Keccak.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.4, 8.9, TC 5 International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop on Availability, Reliability and Security, CD-ARES 2012, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in August 2012. The 50 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the volume. The papers concentrate on the many aspects of information systems bridging the gap between research results in computer science and the many application fields. They are organized in the following topical sections: cross-domain applications: aspects of modeling and validation; trust,security, privacy, and safety; mobile applications; data processing and management; retrieval and complex query processing; e-commerce; and papers from the colocated International Workshop on Security and Cognitive Informatics for Homeland Defense, SeCIHD 2012.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2012, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in August 2012. The 34 regular papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The volume also contains the papers or extended abstracts of 4 invited lectures, as well as a special memorial presentation in honor of Sheng Yu. The topics covered include grammars, acceptors and transducers for words, trees and graphs; algebraic theories of automata; algorithmic, combinatorial and algebraic properties of words and languages; variable length codes; symbolic dynamics; cellular automata; polyominoes and multidimensional patterns; decidability questions; image manipulation and compression; efficient text algorithms; relationships to cryptography, concurrency, complexity theory and logic; bio-inspired computing; quantum computing.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW 2011) held in Atlantic City, NJ, USA, during October 23-26, 2011. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 59 submissions. Conference papers are organized in 6 technical sessions, covering the topics of steganography and steganalysis, watermarking, visual cryptography, forensics, anti-forensics, fingerprinting, privacy and security.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Trusted Systems, INTRUST 2011, held in Beijing, China, in November 2011. The 21 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions for inclusion in the book. Except these contributed papers the program of INTRUST also consisted of a workshop titled Asian Lounge on Trust, Security and Privacy consisting of six keynote speeches. The papers are organized in topical sections on trusted services, mobile trusted systems, security analysis, cryptographic aspects, trusted networks, implementation, and direct anonymous attestation.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Theoretic Security, ICITS 2012, held in Montreal, Canada, in August 2012. The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. In addition 11 papers were selected for the workshop track, abstracts of 7 of these contributions are also included in this book. Topics of interest are: physical layer security; multiparty computations; codes, lattices and cryptography; authentication codes; randomness extraction; cryptography from noisy channels; wiretap channels; bounded-storage models; information-theoretic reductions; quantum cryptography; quantum information theory; nonlocality and nonsignaling; key and message rates; secret sharing; physical models and assumptions; network coding security; adversarial channel models; information-theoretic tools in computational settings; implementation challenges; and biometric security.

This volume presents the refereed proceedings of the 8th International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2012, held in Padua, Italy, in September 2012. The 21 revised papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. Topics covered include crypto and electronic money; wireless security; web security; intrusion detection and monitoring; and anonymity and privacy.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2013, held in Cairo, Egypt, in June 2013. The 26 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. They cover the following topics: secret-key and public-key cryptography and cryptanalysis, efficient implementation, cryptographic protocols, design of cryptographic schemes, security proofs, foundations and complexity theory, information theory, multi-party computation, elliptic curves, and lattices.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2012), held in Kralendijk, Bonaire, February 27-March 1, 2012. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and reviewed from 88 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of securing transactions and systems, including information assurance in the context of finance and commerce.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2012, held in Singapore, in June 2012. The 33 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 192 submissions. They are organized in topical sessions on authentication, key management, block ciphers, identity-based cryptography, cryptographic primitives, cryptanalysis, side channel attacks, network security, Web security, security and privacy in social networks, security and privacy in RFID systems, security and privacy in cloud systems, and security and privacy in smart grids.

Security is probably the most critical factor for the development of the "Information Society". E-government, e-commerce, e-healthcare and all other e-activities present challenging security requirements that cannot be satisfied with current technology, except maybe if the citizens accept to waive their privacy, which is unacceptable ethically and socially. New progress is needed in security and privacy-preserving technologies. On these foundations, the IFIP/SEC conference has been established from the eighties as one of the most important forums for presenting new scientific research results as well as best professional practice to improve the security of information systems. This balance between future technology improvements and day-to-day security management has contributed to better understanding between researchers, solution providers and practitioners, making this forum lively and fruitful. Security and Protection in Information Processing Systems contains the papers selected for presentation at the 19th IFIP International Conference on Information Security (SEC2004), which was held in August 2004 as a co-located conference of the 18th IFIP World Computer Congress in Toulouse, France. The conference was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).This volume is essential reading for scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in keeping pace with the ever-growing field of information security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 International Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security, CMS 2012, held in Canterbury, UK, in September 2012. The 6 revised full papers presented together with 8 short papers, 8 extended abstracts describing the posters that were discussed at the conference, and 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image and handwriting analysis, authentication and performance, biometrics, forensics and watermarking, and communications security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business, TrustBus 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2012 in conjunction with DEXA 2012. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 12 presentations of EU projects were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Web security; secure management processes and procedures; access control; intrusion detection - trust; applied cryptography; secure services, databases, and data warehouses; and presentations of EU projects.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Field, WAIFI 2012, held in Bochum, Germany, in July 2012. The 13 revised full papers and 4 invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on coding theory and code-based cryptography, Boolean functions, finite field arithmetic, equations and functions, and polynomial factorization and permutation polynomial.