A Generic Framework for Device Pairing in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Secure Device Pairing: A Usability Study

“…The registration, discovery and proof of physical proximity are integrated into Co-Location (CoLoc) protocol, which is core part of the proposed system. The details of CoLoc protocol can be found in [1], however we are presenting the overview of the overall system as below:…”

“…al. [1] have proposed a generic framework for secure device pairing. Authors [1] advocated that a common pairing infrastructure for ubiquitous computing environments can improve the usability and security of the pairing process.…”

“…[1] have proposed a generic framework for secure device pairing. Authors [1] advocated that a common pairing infrastructure for ubiquitous computing environments can improve the usability and security of the pairing process. The proposed system integrates device discovery, several pairing schemes and a protocol selection mechanism into a single model that facilitates association of any pair of devices in a wide range of scenarios by using the devices' existing capabilities and user preferences, and also assists the user to select an appropriate pairing protocol and relieves him/her from choosing between more than two dozen of pairing schemes.…”

“…The proposed system integrates device discovery, several pairing schemes and a protocol selection mechanism into a single model that facilitates association of any pair of devices in a wide range of scenarios by using the devices' existing capabilities and user preferences, and also assists the user to select an appropriate pairing protocol and relieves him/her from choosing between more than two dozen of pairing schemes. The interested readers can find the detailed analysis of these existing schemes in [32][33] and the detailed system architecture of the proposed system in [1]. The focus of this paper is the usability study of eight pairing schemes as well as the proposed system, which integrates them.…”

“…It is carried out in order to evaluate the proposed system and to support the argument that the integration of discovery mechanism and several proof-of-proximity protocols into a single device pairing system is an effective approach for ordinary users from both security and usability points of view. The remaining part of this paper is organised as follows: section 2 presents brief summary of the proposed system [1], section 3 discusses the implementation, section 4 presents the details of usability study, section 5 describes the results and presents the evaluation of the proposed system, and finally section 6 concludes the paper.…”