Title
Enforcing role based access control model with multimedia signatures
Abstract
Recently ubiquitous technology has invaded almost every aspect of the modern life. Several application domains, have integrated ubiquitous technology to make the management of resources a dynamic task. However, the need for adequate and enforced authentication and access control models to provide safe access to sensitive information remains a critical matter to address in such environments. Many security models were proposed in the literature thus few were able to provide adaptive access decisions based on the environmental changes. In this paper, we propose an approach based on our previous work [B.A. Bouna, R. Chbeir, S. Marrara, A multimedia access control language for virtual and ambient intelligence environments, In Secure Web Services (2007) 111-120] to enforce current role based access control models [M.J. Moyer, M. Ahama, Generalized role-based access control, in: Proceedings of International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 2001, pp. 391-398] using multimedia objects in a dynamic environment. In essence, multimedia objects tend to be complex, memory and time consuming nevertheless they provide interesting information about users and their context (user surrounding, his moves and gesture, people nearby, etc.). The idea behind our approach is to attribute to roles and permissions, multimedia signatures in which we integrate conditions based on users' context information described using multimedia objects in order to limit role activation and the abuse of permissions in a given environment. We also describe our architecture which extends the known XACML [XACML, XACML Profile for Role Based Access Control (RBAC), , 2008] terminology to incorporate multimedia signatures. We provide an overview of a possible implementation of the model to illustrate how it could be valuable once integrated in an intelligent environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1016/j.sysarc.2008.10.003
Journal of Systems Architecture - Embedded Systems Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
multimedia signature,xacml profile,adaptive access decision,ambient intelligence environment,safe access,multimedia signatures,multimedia access control language,access control model,multimedia object,generalized role-based access control,enforcing role,ubiquitous technology,environmental change,role based access control,ambient intelligence,web service,security model,access control
Intelligent environment,Computer access control,World Wide Web,Computer science,Ambient intelligence,Role-based access control,XACML,Access control,Web service,Multimedia,Computer security model
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
55
4
Journal of Systems Architecture
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
19
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Béchara Al Bouna14511.20
Richard Chbeir269182.42
Stefania Marrara317121.05
BounaBechara Al420.41