Australian Information Security Management Conference

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publisher

School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia

Comments

8th Australian Information Security Mangement Conference, Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia, 30th November 2010

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to provide a managed always best connected service to mobile entities over underlying heterogeneous wireless and mobile platforms while maintaining negotiated security and quality of service (QoS). This paper proposes a new model and its architecture which is based upon Policy-based Management but provides a new framework based on layered-approach for the centralised management of mobile clients. In particular, we propose and implement a new model of a policy-managed mobile client and its architecture to support seamless handoff across multiple access networks. The proposed mobile client supports multi-domain authentication, authorisation and security based on user profiles as well as the ability to negotiate management services over interconnected heterogeneous mobile platforms. We have also proposed a new handoff initiation algorithm to select an optimum time to handoff. This algorithm combines metrics in a novel way using standard deviations without resorting to other computationally intensive methods. Finally, this paper describes a proof-of-concept implementation based upon Microsoft Windows presenting a performance analysis to validate our architectural approach.

DOI

10.4225/75/57b670bb3477d

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