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On Optimizing Compatible Security Policies in Wireless Networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking volume 2006, Article number: 023728 (2006)
Abstract
This paper deals with finding the maximum number of security policies without conflicts. By doing so we can remove security loophole that causes security violation. We present the problem of maximum compatible security policy and its relationship to the problem of maximum acyclic subgraph, which is proved to be NP-hard. Then we present a polynomial-time approximation algorithm and show that our result has approximation ratio
for any integer
with complexity
.
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Huang, S.CH., Makki, K. & Pissinou, N. On Optimizing Compatible Security Policies in Wireless Networks. J Wireless Com Network 2006, 023728 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1155/WCN/2006/23728
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