Paper Info
Title
Geo-Social-RBAC: A Location-Based Socially Aware Access Control Framework.
Abstract
The ubiquity of low-cost GPS-enabled mobile devices and the proliferation of online social networks have enabled the collection of rich geo-social information that includes the whereabouts of the users and their social connections. This information can be used to provide a rich set of access control policies that ensure that resources are utilized securely. Existing literature focuses on providing access control systems that control the access solely based on either the location of the users or their social connections. In this paper, we argue that a number of real-world applications demand an access control model that effectively captures both the geographic as well as the social dimensions of the users in a given location. We propose, Geo-social-RBAC, a new role based access control model that allows the inclusion of geo-social constraints as part of the access control policy. Our model, besides capturing the locations of a user requesting access and her social connections, includes geo-social cardinality constraints that dictate how many people related by a particular social relation need to be present in the required locations at the time of an access. The model also allows specification of geo-social and location trace constraints that may be used to dictate if an access needs to be granted or denied.
Year
Venue
Field
2014
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Social relation,Computer access control,World Wide Web,Social network,Computer science,Computer security,Social dimension,Cardinality,Role-based access control,Mobile device,Access control
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
8792
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
16
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nathalie Baracaldo111112.47
Balaji Palanisamy240036.26
James B. D. Joshi32321143.10