NDLI: A chain calling in coordination for multi-tenant collaborative cloud services

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Danai Thongsang Temtanapat, Y.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Thammasat Univ., Pathum Thani, Thailand (Danai Thongsang; Temtanapat, Y.)
Abstract	Currently, a cloud service is widely available but its access control is usually limited and tied only to its tenancy in isolation. To take full advantage from cloud services, multiple tenancies with some level of mutual trust would seek to collaborate and share their resources. However, building a collaborative application from inter-related chain callings to various services on a single or multiple cloud systems encounters an access control challenge and it becomes a big barrier to its adoption. To provide an appropriate fine grained chain calling authorization, this paper proposes an extension to Multi-Tenant Authorization System Model (MTAS), named “Chain Calling Coordination in MTAS” (C-MTAS). In the MTAS, a service with several chain callings would require the model to break a tenant's role into too many sub-roles with a limited trust scope. This would increase unintentional number of roles that could lead to breaches. It would be also hard to maintain. We, instead, propose to separate a tenant element to make a non-redundant, clear and simplified set of roles and permissions. The benefit of our model to the MTAS is shown by applying both models to the same concrete scenario. We found that our model gives a cleaner and smaller set of rules as compared to the MTAS's. We also illustrate how to use our model via a practically feasible example policy in the XACML format. The prototype system is built as an Authorization as a Service (AaaS) platform, a middle layer on the part of the cloud services, which can be used by the same or across providers. Finally, it is tested on different hardware sets. The results showed that the model could be scalable.
Starting Page	302
Ending Page	307
File Size	1158847
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479949632
DOI	10.1109/ICSEC.2014.6978212
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-07-30
Publisher Place	Thailand
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Authorization Computer science Cloud computing Computational modeling Collaboration Prototypes Multi-tenancy Permission Collaboration service MTAS Trust
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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