@article {NL-COMCOM15, title = {Contextualising Heterogeneous Information in Unified Communications with Security Restrictions}, journal = {Computer Communications}, volume = {68}, year = {2015}, month = {09/2015}, pages = {33-46}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {

The lack of abstraction in a growing semantic, virtual and abstract world poses new challenges for assessing security and QoS tradeoffs. For example, in Future Internet scenarios, where Unified Communications (UC) will take place, being able to predict the final devices that will form the network is not always possible. Without this information the analysis of the security and QoS tradeoff can only be based on partial information to be completed when more information about the environment is available. In this paper, we extend the description of context-based parametric relationship model, providing a tool for assessing the security and QoS tradeoff (SQT) based on interchangeable contexts. Our approach is able to use the heterogeneous information produced by scenarios where UC is present.

}, keywords = {Context, QoS, security, Tradeoff}, issn = {0140-3664}, doi = {10.1016/j.comcom.2015.07.015}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140366415002534}, author = {Ana Nieto and Javier Lopez} } @article {nieto2013mone, title = {A Model for the Analysis of QoS and Security Tradeoff in Mobile Platforms}, journal = {Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal}, volume = {19}, year = {2014}, month = {02/2014}, pages = {64-78}, publisher = {Springer US}, abstract = {

Today, mobile platforms are multimedia devices that provide different types of traffic with the consequent particular performance demands and, besides, security concerns (e.g. privacy). However, Security and QoS requirements quite often conflict to a large degree; the mobility and heterogeneous paradigm of the Future Internet makes coexistence even more difficult, posing new challenges to overcome. Probably, one of the main challenges is to identify the specific reasons why Security and QoS mechanisms are so related to each other. In this paper, we present a Parametric Relationship Model (PRM) to identify the Security and QoS dependencies, and to elaborate on the Security and QoS tradeoff. In particular, we perform an analysis that focus on the mobile platform environment and, consequently, also considers subjective parameters such user{\textquoteright}s experience, that is crucial for increasing the usability of new solutions in the Future Internet. The final aim of our contribution is to facilitate the development of secure and efficient services for mobile platforms.

}, keywords = {Dependencies, Parameters, PRM, QoS, Relationships, security, Tradeoff}, issn = {1383-469X}, doi = {10.1007/s11036-013-0462-y}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11036-013-0462-y}, author = {Ana Nieto and Javier Lopez} }