4th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness

Research Article

VICSDA: Using Virtual Communities to Secure Service Discovery and Access

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1577222.1577276,
        author={Shudong Chen and Johan Lukkien and Igor Radovanovic and Melissa Tjiong and Remi Bosman and Richard Verhoeven and Goran Petrovic},
        title={VICSDA: Using Virtual Communities to Secure Service Discovery and Access},
        proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and  Robustness},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={QSHINE},
        year={2007},
        month={8},
        keywords={Security Service discovery and access Virtual community 3D video streaming Design Security Experimentation},
        doi={10.1145/1577222.1577276}
    }
    
  • Shudong Chen
    Johan Lukkien
    Igor Radovanovic
    Melissa Tjiong
    Remi Bosman
    Richard Verhoeven
    Goran Petrovic
    Year: 2007
    VICSDA: Using Virtual Communities to Secure Service Discovery and Access
    QSHINE
    ACM
    DOI: 10.1145/1577222.1577276
Shudong Chen1,*, Johan Lukkien1,*, Igor Radovanovic1,*, Melissa Tjiong1,*, Remi Bosman1,*, Richard Verhoeven1,*, Goran Petrovic2,*
  • 1: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands +31 40 247 8204
  • 2: Department of Electrical Engineering Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands +31 40 247 3708
*Contact email: shudong.chen@tue.nl, j.j.lukkien@tue.nl, i.radovanovic@tue.nl, m.tjiong@tue.nl, r.p.bosman@tue.nl, p.h.f.m.verhoeven@tue.nl, g.petrovic@tue.nl

Abstract

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is emerging as an enabling technology for sharing distributed heterogeneous resources on the network. Consequently, securing services is an increasing concern. Research issues include privacy protection for service providers, transparent access control for service consumers, secure service discovery and composition. In this paper, we present an access control approach which uses virtual communities to secure service discovery and access (VICSDA). Services grouped in virtual communities can only be discovered and accessed by authenticated community members. Meanwhile, services are autonomous to define their local access control policy. Moreover, behavior of these autonomous services is monitored in order to guarantee a better QoS provision. Using a virtual community overlay network on top of a SOA infrastructure, VICSDA can provide authentication, message confidentiality and integrity to secure service discovery and access. Better application performance can be achieved through VICSDA. We integrated VICSDA with a 3D video streaming application. This example provides us with some initial evidence that VICSDA is a viable solution to our target problems.