Title :
A security architecture for application session handoff
Author :
Skow, Erik ; Kong, Jiejun ; Phan, Thomas ; Cheng, Fred ; Guy, Richard ; Bagrodia, Rajive ; Gerla, Mario ; Lu, Songwu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
Ubiquitous computing across a variety of wired and wireless connections still lacks an effective security architecture. In our research work, we address the specific issue of designing and building a security architecture for application session handoff, a functionality which we envision will be a key component enabling ubiquitous computing. Our architecture incorporates a number of proven approaches into the new context of ubiquitous computing. We employ the Bell-LaPadula (1976) and capability models to realise access control and adopt public key infrastructure (PKI)-based approaches to provide efficient and authenticated end-to-end security. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our design, we implemented an application enabled with this security architecture and showed that it incurred low latency.
Keywords :
land mobile radio; message authentication; mobile computing; telecommunication security; wide area networks; Bell-LaPadula model; Internet; access control; application session handoff; authenticated end-to-end security; capability models; efficient security; iMASH; interactive mobile application support for heterogeneous clients; low latency; mobile computing; public key infrastructure; security architecture; ubiquitous computing; wide-area network; wired connections; wireless connections; Application software; Ash; Communication system security; Computer architecture; Computer science; Computer security; Data security; Mobile computing; Pervasive computing; Ubiquitous computing;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2002. ICC 2002. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7400-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2002.997210