Role-based access management for ad-hoc collaborative sharing

  • Authors:
  • Jing Jin;Gail-Joon Ahn

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of North Carolina at Charlotte;The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the eleventh ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Under scientific collaborations, resource sharing tends to be highly dynamic and often ad hoc. The dynamic characteristics and sharing patterns of ad-hoc collaborative sharing impose a need for comprehensive and flexible approaches to reflect and cope with the unique access control requirements associated with the ad-hoc collaboration. In this paper, we propose a role-based access management framework to enable secure resource sharing,especially focusing on the digital information sharing in the heterogeneous scientific collaboration environments.Our framework incorporates role-based approach to address distributed access control, delegation and dissemination control involved in the resource sharing within such environments. A set of XACML-based policy schemas is proposed to specify policies on our framework. To demonstrate the feasibility of our framework, we design and implement a proof-of-concept prototype system called ShareEnabler, which is based on a peer-to-peer information sharing toolkit developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.