Policy based access for home contents and services

Authors:
Mohammad M. R. Chowdhury;Sarfraz Alam;Josef Noll
Affiliations:
University Graduate Center, Kjeller, Norway;University Graduate Center, Kjeller, Norway;University Graduate Center, Kjeller, Norway
Venue:
CSTST '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Soft computing as transdisciplinary science and technology
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Policies are familiar approach to preserve security and privacy of the Web contents and services. This paper is going to address the policy based constrained access to the home contents and services but in the context of distributed but connected devices. A community concept equipped with trust metric is introduced to facilitate such restricted access. The community structure is maintained through a knowledge base exploiting Web Ontology Language and the policies are formulated using Semantic Web Rule Language. Reasoner then executes the policies to derive the access authorization results. In this paper, we provide a prototypical implementation of the whole scenario where a community member can download videos from the owner's home devices through a Web application. Besides, this paper critically investigates several challenges of the proposed approach with regard to various implementation issues.