Title
Deploying Pervasive Secure Knowledge Management Infrastructures
Abstract
Pervasive environments are mostly based on the ad hoc networking paradigm and are characterized by ubiquity in both users and devices and artifacts. In these inherently unstable conditions and bearing in mind the resource's limitations that are attributed to participating devices, the deployment of Knowledge Management techniques is considered complicated due to the particular requirements. Security considerations are also very important since the distribution of knowledge information to multiple locations over a network, poses inherent problems and calls for advanced methods in order to mitigate node misbehaviour and in order to enforce authorized and authenticated access to this information. This paper addresses the issue of secure and distributed knowledge management applications in pervasive environments. We present a prototype implementation after having discussed detailed design principles as far as the communications and the application itself is regarded. Robustness and lightweight implementation are the cornerstones of the proposed solution. The approach we have undertaken makes use of overlay networks to achieve efficiency and performance optimization, exploiting ontologies. The work presented in this paper extends our initial work to tackle this problem, as this was described in [28].
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1108/17427370580000130
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PERVASIVE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile ad hoc networks, pervasive environments, communication and information security and distributed knowledge management
Software deployment,Authentication,Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Knowledge management,Robustness (computer science),Wireless ad hoc network,Distributed computing,Ontology (information science),Design elements and principles,Distributed knowledge management,Overlay network
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
1
4
1742-7371
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.78
14
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Apostolos Malatras114215.18
George Pavlou21903157.00
Petros Belsis36713.17
Stefanos Gritzalis41194122.43
Christos Skourlas57618.73
Ioannis Chalaris6103.55