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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTC.2007.14-C.6.537

Design and Safety Analysis of a Role-Based Access Control Framework for Mobile Agents in Home Network Environments  

Jung, Young-Woo (성균관대학교 전자전기컴퓨터공학과)
Ko, Kwang-Sun (성균관대학교 이동통신공학과)
Kim, Gu-Su (동양대학교 정보통신공학부)
Eom, Young-Ik (성균관대학교 정보통신공학부)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartC / v.14C, no.6, 2007 , pp. 537-544 More about this Journal
Abstract
A home network is a residential local area network in which digital home appliances are connected with each other. Applying the mobile agent technology to the home network is expected to provide a new computing model. In particular, mobility and asynchronous ability of mobile agent can be used to reduce network traffic generated for managing home appliances. However, in order to apply the mobile agent concept to the home network, access control for mobile agents is necessary. In the existing home network system, there is one special server, sometimes called home server This server generally has mapping tables to be updated periodically, which describes access control lists between users' authorities and corresponding devices. In this paper, we propose a role-based access control framework with mobile agents in home networks. This framework, called Secure KAgent framework, is designed and implemented based on KAgent system. It has two main characteristics: to control access permissions based on Role-Based Access Control(RBAC) scheme and to safety assign roles to mobile agents by role tickets.
Keywords
Mobile Agents; Home Networks; Role-Based Access Control; RBAC;
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