Applying quorum role in network management

  • Authors:
  • Edemilson da Silva;Altair Olivo Santin;Edgard Jamhour;Carlos Maziero;Emir Toktar

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate Program in Computer Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil;Graduate Program in Computer Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil;Graduate Program in Computer Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil;Graduate Program in Computer Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil;LIP6 Computing Laboratory, University of Paris VI, Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • IM'09 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Symposium on Integrated Network Management
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This work presents a proposal for extending the Role-Based Access control (RBAC) model to support activities that demand runtime mutability in their authorization attributes. Such activities cannot be subdivided in a set of subtasks executed sequentially neither can be accomplished by a single role. The approach presented allows the creation of quorum roles, which can only be activated in a session with the endorsement of a quorum of other roles. A prototype illustrates the application of our proposal in a network management scenario. In the illustrative scenario, a previously defined set of roles, by endorsement, activates a quorum role to perform a management task without the participation of the network administrator role.