Novel Security Model for Pervasive Systems

Abstract

As portable devices have become a part of our everyday life, more people are unknowingly participating in a pervasive computing environment. People might engage in many computational devices simultaneously without even the awareness of their existence. The idea of pervasive computing is that almost every device we see today will be capable of communication and function in collaboration with one another in the near future. Due to lack of a fixed infrastructure for authentication and authorization, devices in pervasive computing are more susceptible to malicious snoopers. In this paper, we cover different pervasive computing-based projects that have adopted pervasive middleware as an integral part of the security enforcement in their projects. We then move on to identify security requirements especially inherent to pervasive computing which makes it a smart security system. Finally, a security model for pervasive system is proposed that compose the required pervasive security functions to be smart.

Towards an Integrated Platform for Adaptive Socio-technical Systems for Smart Spaces

“…Although technology offers many different solutions to support the communication and the interaction at component level, it still lacks an effective support at system level, where the overall functionalities of the system have to be designed and then developed in terms of coordination of socio-technical components and global adaptation policies. Similarly, pervasive applications accumulate information from multiple parties and sources, raising critical issues as concerns people's privacy and personal (possibly sensitive) data, which cannot be addressed by existing models and techniques [22], [23].…”