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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, GPC 2007, held in Paris, France in May 2007. It covers all aspects of grid and pervasive computing and focuses on topics such as cluster computing, grid computing, semantic Web and semantic grid, service-oriented computing, peer-to-peer computing, mobile computing, as well as grid and pervasive related applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference, CPC 2010 , held in Hualien, Taiwan in May 2010. The 67 full papers are carefully selected from 184 submissions and focus on topics such as cloud and Grid computing, peer-to-peer and pervasive computing, sensor and moile networks, service-oriented computing, resource management and scheduling, Grid and pervasive applications, semantic Grid and ontologies, mobile commerce and services.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, GPC 2012, held in Hong Kong, China, in May 2012. The 9 revised full papers and 19 short papers were carefully revised and selected from 55 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on cloud computing, grid and service computing, green computing, mobile and pervasive computing, scheduling and performance, and trust and security. Also included are 4 papers presented at the 2012 International Workshop on Mobile Cloud and Ubiquitous Computing (Mobi-Cloud 2012) held in conjunction with GPC 2012.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, GPC 2008, held in Kunming, China, in May 2008. The 45 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 184 submissions. The papers cover all current issues of grid and pervasive computing and focus on topics such as cluster computing, grid computing, high performance computing, network storage, peer-to-peer computing, pervasive computing, the Semantic Web and the Semantic Grid, and service-oriented computing.

Explores practical advantages of Grid Computing and what is needed by an organization to migrate to this new computing paradigm This self-contained reference makes both the concepts and applications of grid computing clear and understandable to even non-technical managers Explains the underlying networking mechanism and answers such questions critical to the business enterprise as "What is grid computing?" "How widespread is its present/potential penetration?" "Is it ready for prime time?" "Are there firm standards?" "Is it secure?" "How do we bill this new product?" and "How can we deploy it (at a macro level)?"