A management framework for secure home network applications

Home network is a residential local area network where digital home appliances are connected with each other. In a home network, access control is an essential factor to provide a proper service to an authorized user. In this environment, there is a home server, which manages user´s accesses to external sources. It prevents unauthorized users from accessing home appliances on the network. In this paper, we propose a role-based access control (RBAC) framework using mobile agents in home network environments. This framework controls the users´ authorities based on RBAC so that it manages the access control list in each device independently. Also, it guarantees secure role assignment using the role tickets introduced in the proposed framework.