Paper Info
Title
A Private, Secure, and User-Centric Information Exposure Model for Service Discovery Protocols
Abstract
Service Discovery as an essential element in pervasive computing environments is widely accepted. Much research on service discovery has been conducted, but privacy and security have been ignored and may be sacrificed. While it is essential that legitimate users should be able to discover services, it is also necessary that services be hidden from illegitimate users. Since service information, service provider's information, service requests, user presence information, and user's identities may be sensitive, we may want to keep them private during service discovery processes. There appears to be no existing service discovery protocols that solve these problems. We present a user-centric model, called PrudentExposure, which exposes minimal information privately and securely. Users and service owners exchange code words in an efficient and scalable form to establish mutual trust. Based on the trust, secure service discovery sessions are set up. The model is further improved to counter attacks. We analyze the mathematical properties of our model, formally verify our security protocol, and measure the performance of our prototype system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/TMC.2006.1599409
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Protocols,Pervasive computing,Digital audio players,Bluetooth,Privacy,Cellular phones,Headphones,Student members,Information security,Counting circuits
Service design,Internet privacy,Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Service catalog,Service provider,Differentiated service,Security service,Service level requirement,Service discovery,Service delivery framework
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
4
1536-1233
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
30
2.07
15
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Feng Zhu116211.68
Matt Mutka22514361.75
Lionel M. Ni39462802.67