A flexible privacy and trust based context-aware secure framework

Pierre Abi-Char (1) , Abdallah M'Hamed (1) , Bachar El Hassan (2) , Mounir Mokhtari (1)

1 TSP - RST - Département Réseaux et Services de Télécommunications
2 LaSTRe - Laboratoire des Systèmes électroniques, Télécommunications et Réseaux (Université Libanaise)

Ubiquitous and pervasive technologies contribute significantly to the quality of life of dependent people by providing personalized services in context aware environments. The deployment of these services within indoor and outdoor environments still require security, privacy and trust issues for dependent persons. Considering the strong links between these three issues, our challenging task was to integrate them in a common and flexible framework using contextual information. In this paper, we propose a security framework that integrates context awareness to perform authentication and access control in a very flexible and scalable model while ensuring both privacy and trust. The framework focuses on the authentication of users who request access to the resources of smart environment system through static devices (i.e. smart card, RFID, etc.), or dynamic devices (i.e. PDA, mobile phones, etc.)

Mots clés: Authentication; Quality of privacy; Context-aware; Access control; Smart spaces; Privacy control; Trust management; Risk assessment

Domaines: Informatique ubiquitaire

Pierre Abi-Char, Abdallah M'Hamed, Bachar El Hassan, Mounir Mokhtari. A flexible privacy and trust based context-aware secure framework. ICOST 2010 : 8th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, Jun 2010, Seoul, South Korea. pp.17 - 23, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-13778-5_3⟩. ⟨hal-01314803⟩