Authenticated distributed device network

Demand of today´s globalized business world is to join different kind of data & communication sources and cross-border collaborations have led to work with distributed environments across multiple organizational and geographical boundaries. The new requirements of portability, configurability and interoperability of distributed device networks put forward new challenges and security risks to the system´s design and implementation. There are critical demands on highly secured collaborative control environments and security enhancing mechanisms for distributed device control, configuration, monitoring, and interoperation. This paper addresses the collaborative control issues of distributed device networks with entity authentication. The security challenges of authenticity, integrity, confidentiality, and execution safety are considered as primary design constraints. By adopting policy-based network security technologies, a technique of passing secret key is designed in this paper to provide high authenticity in distributed network, more over modules of Secure Device Control Gateway and Security Agent are modified into regular distributed device control networks to provide security and safety enhancing mechanisms. The main architectures, applied mechanisms, and implementation considerations are presented in detail in this paper.