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Dartmouth College

2005

Distributed computing

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Secure Context-Sensitive Authorization, Kazuhiro Minami, David Kotz Mar 2005

Secure Context-Sensitive Authorization, Kazuhiro Minami, David Kotz

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There is a recent trend toward rule-based authorization systems to achieve flexible security policies. Also, new sensing technologies in pervasive computing make it possible to define context-sensitive rules, such as “allow database access only to staff who are currently located in the main office.” However, these rules, or the facts that are needed to verify authority, often involve sensitive context information. This paper presents a secure context-sensitive authorization system that protects confidential information in facts or rules. Furthermore, our system allows multiple hosts in a distributed environment to perform the evaluation of an authorization query in a collaborative way; we …

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Policy-Driven Data Dissemination For Context-Aware Applications, Guanling Chen, David Kotz Mar 2005

Policy-Driven Data Dissemination For Context-Aware Applications, Guanling Chen, David Kotz

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Context-aware pervasive-computing applications require continuous monitoring of their physical and computational environment to make appropriate adaptation decisions in time. The data streams produced by sensors, however, may overflow the queues on the dissemination path. Traditional flow-control and congestion-control policies either drop data or force the sender to pause. When the data sender is sensing the physical environment, however, a pause is equivalent to dropping data. Instead of arbitrarily dropping data that may contain important events, we present a policy-driven data dissemination service named PACK, based on an overlay-based infrastructure for efficient multicast delivery. PACK enforces application-specified policies that define how …

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