Towards secure resource sharing for impromptu collaboration in pervasive computing

  • Authors:
  • William Claycomb;Dongwan Shin

  • Affiliations:
  • New Mexico Tech, Socorro, New Mexico;New Mexico Tech, Socorro, New Mexico

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Access control in mobile and pervasive computing is a complex issue, with many aspects relating to the establishment, management, and enforcement of methods and policies that allow mobile devices to share resources with each other. Communication between mobile devices can arise spontaneously, involve the sharing of few resources between heterogeneous platforms, and only need to be maintained for a short time. Additionally, the devices often communicate with each other a single time, and have no pre-shared secret or a priori knowledge of the other device. In this paper we propose a secure solution for providing controlled access to local resources in mobile and pervasive computing environments. Our solution incorporates demonstrative verification of security credentials, a key-based capability delegation, and easy to use access control features in order to provide simple access with low maintenance costs. It is particularly designed for one-time-only communication between mobile-to-mobile or mobile-to-kiosk devices.