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Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.
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Turing machine
Telecommunications; General telecom
A mathematical model of a device that changes its internal state and reads from, writes on, and moves a potentially infinite tape, all in accordance with its present state, thereby constituting a ...
Security model
Telecommunications; General telecom
A mathematical or conceptual representation for specifying and proving system security. Examples: Non-interference model, Information Flow model, Bell-LaPadula model.
Correctness proof
Telecommunications; General telecom
A mathematical proof of consistency between a specification and its implementation.
Poisson distribution
Telecommunications; General telecom
A mathematical statement of the probability that exactly k discrete events will take place during an interval of length t, expressed by where k is a non-negative integer, e is the base of the natural ...
Digital loopback
Telecommunications; General telecom
A mechanism incorporated into a terminal or into equipment in the network whereby a duplex communication path may be connected back upon itself so that the digits sent on the transmit path are ...
Critical mechanism
Telecommunications; General telecom
A mechanism within a Target of Evaluation whose failure would create a security weakness.
Machine-readable medium
Telecommunications; General telecom
A medium capable of storing data in a form that can be accessed by an automated sensing device. Note: Examples of machine-readable media include (a) magnetic disks, cards, tapes, and drums, (b) ...