Title :
Application Based Meta Tagging of Network Connections
Author :
Wallis, Mark ; Henskens, Frans ; Hannaford, Michael
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Newcastle, Newcastle
Abstract :
Modern operating systems offer a large array of features in their network subsystems that support fine-grained access control, monitoring and accounting. Such features allow a system administrator to account and filter outgoing network connections based on attributes such as the destination IP address and port number of the connection. With the increase in multi-user systems such as grid networks and shared Web hosting, the complexity of these tasks has increased. Current operating systems lack the ability to determine the intent of a network connection based on the connection´s technical characteristics alone. This paper presents a new mechanism by which applications themselves are given the ability to pass meta information to the network subsystem, allowing it to take advantage of application specific data.
Keywords :
authorisation; grid computing; network operating systems; access control; destination IP address; grid networks; meta tagging; multiuser systems; network subsystems; operating systems; outgoing network connection filtering; port number; shared Web hosting; Application software; Data security; Distributed computing; Grid computing; Information security; Information technology; Operating systems; Routing; Sockets; Tagging; Accounting; Connection; Security; Socket; Tagging;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: New Generations, 2008. ITNG 2008. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-3099-0
DOI :
10.1109/ITNG.2008.209