The number of industrial applications relying on the Machine to Machine (M2M) services
exposed from physical world has been increasing in recent years. Such M2M services …

There is a method of generating a token required to transfer an access authority to a
cooperating system to a cooperation asking system. In this method, a refresh token is issued …

A system for establishing an encrypted multicast communication session over a
communications network can include a client means (eg, a radio, laptop, workstation, phone …

Multicasting, as an operational paradigm, has not been widely adopted until now, in spite of
the advantages of its lower resource utilization and bandwidth conservation. This is due to …

IP multicast is best known for its bandwidth conservation and lower resource utilization. The
classical model of multicast makes it difficult to permit access only to authorized end users or …

Over the past years, the deployment of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) into industrial
environments attracted a lot of business domains (eg, defence, public security, energy …

Abstract Source Specific Multicast (SSM) promises a wider dissemination of group
distribution services than Any Source Multicast, as it relies on simpler routing strategies with …

The Internet research community has proposed many routing protocols to support efficient
multicast application. However, these protocols were developed for multicast parties whose …

With the rapid increase of network users and services, the breadth and depth of Internet
have greatly changed. The mismatch between current network requirements and original …

IP multicast is best-known for its bandwidth conservation and lower resource utilization. The
present service model of multicast makes it difficult to restrict access to authorized End Users …