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Towards secure resource sharing for impromptu collaboration in pervasive computing

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William Claycomb,

Dongwan ShinAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 940 - 946

https://doi.org/10.1145/1244002.1244208

Published: 11 March 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Access control in mobile and pervasive computing is a complex issue, with many aspects relating to the establishment, management, and enforcement of methods and policies that allow mobile devices to share resources with each other. Communication between mobile devices can arise spontaneously, involve the sharing of few resources between heterogeneous platforms, and only need to be maintained for a short time. Additionally, the devices often communicate with each other a single time, and have no pre-shared secret or a priori knowledge of the other device. In this paper we propose a secure solution for providing controlled access to local resources in mobile and pervasive computing environments. Our solution incorporates demonstrative verification of security credentials, a key-based capability delegation, and easy to use access control features in order to provide simple access with low maintenance costs. It is particularly designed for one-time-only communication between mobile-to-mobile or mobile-to-kiosk devices.

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Morales RSerna JMedina M(2011)A Policy-based Authorization Scheme for Resource Sharing in Pervasive EnvironmentsISSE 2010 Securing Electronic Business Processes10.1007/978-3-8348-9788-6_26(271-279)Online publication date: 2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-9788-6_26
Morales RSerna JMedina MLuna J(2010)CARMA: Composable-Adaptive Resource Management Authorization for ubiquitous environments2010 Sixth International Conference on Information Assurance and Security10.1109/ISIAS.2010.5604070(234-239)Online publication date: Aug-2010
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIAS.2010.5604070
Claycomb WDongwan Shin (2007)Enabling delegation for impromptu collaboration in pervasive computing2007 22nd international symposium on computer and information sciences10.1109/ISCIS.2007.4456898(1-6)Online publication date: Nov-2007
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCIS.2007.4456898

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SAC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing

March 2007

1688 pages

ISBN:1595934804

DOI:10.1145/1244002

Conference Chairs:
Yookun Cho
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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Roger L. Wainwright
University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Hisham M. Haddad
Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia
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Sung Y. Shin
South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota
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Program Chair:
Yong Wan Koo
The University of Suwon, Gyeongggi-do, Korea

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Morales RSerna JMedina M(2011)A Policy-based Authorization Scheme for Resource Sharing in Pervasive EnvironmentsISSE 2010 Securing Electronic Business Processes10.1007/978-3-8348-9788-6_26(271-279)Online publication date: 2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-9788-6_26
Morales RSerna JMedina MLuna J(2010)CARMA: Composable-Adaptive Resource Management Authorization for ubiquitous environments2010 Sixth International Conference on Information Assurance and Security10.1109/ISIAS.2010.5604070(234-239)Online publication date: Aug-2010
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIAS.2010.5604070
Claycomb WDongwan Shin (2007)Enabling delegation for impromptu collaboration in pervasive computing2007 22nd international symposium on computer and information sciences10.1109/ISCIS.2007.4456898(1-6)Online publication date: Nov-2007
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCIS.2007.4456898

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