A Genetic Algorithms-Based Approach for Optimized Self-protection in a Pervasive Service Middleware

  • Authors:
  • Weishan Zhang;Julian Schütte;Mads Ingstrup;Klaus M. Hansen

  • Affiliations:
  • Aarhus University,;Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology,;Aarhus University,;Aarhus University, and University of Iceland,

  • Venue:
  • ICSOC-ServiceWave '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Service-Oriented Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

With increasingly complex and heterogeneous systems in pervasive service computing, it becomes more and more important to provide self-protected services to end users. In order to achieve self-protection, the corresponding security should be provided in an optimized manner considering the constraints of heterogeneous devices and networks. In this paper, we present a Genetic Algorithms-based approach for obtaining optimized security configurations at run time, supported by a set of security OWL ontologies and an event-driven framework. This approach has been realized as a prototype for self-protection in the Hydra middleware, and is integrated with a framework for enforcing the computed solution at run time using security obligations. The experiments with the prototype on configuring security strategies for a pervasive service middleware show that this approach has acceptable performance, and could be used to automatically adapt security strategies in the middleware.