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OpenAmbient: A Pervasive Access Control Architecture

Overview For a long time, lack of reliable security and privacy solutions has been considered to be a major hurdle toward the development of pervasive computing applications for critical domains such as secure workplace, healthcare and assisted living. Today, an advanced security infrastructure for context-aware and personalized authentication and authorization services in heterogeneous networks is gradually taking shape. This infrastructure will enable large-scale mobility using a variety of mobile devices supporting authentication modules like SIMs. This paper briefly presents the Web Service-based architecture, named OpenAmbient that incorporates a security language supporting ambient predicates.

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Publisher	RWTH Aachen University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2006	Downloads	12
Format	White Papers
Topics	SLA, Infrastructure Management

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