Access-controlled resource discovery for pervasive networks

This paper describes the design and implementation of an architecture for access controlled resource discovery. This system achieves this goal by integrating access control with the Intentional Naming System (INS), a resource discovery and service location system. The integration is scalable, efficient, and fits well within a proxy-based security framework designed for dynamic networks. We provide performance experiments that show how our solution outperforms existing schemes. The result is a system that provides secure, Access controlled resource discovery that can scale to large numbers of resources and users.