A Design of Security Management Module for User Centered Home Network

摘要

In this paper, we consider the security of a user centered home network referred to as a pervasive home network. In this home network, a mobile agent, called LAP A, can migrate to unfamiliar home network and control the necessary devices. For this environment, we design security management module for authenticating user and home server that access some other home networks, and for protecting text, multimedia data, and mobile agent that are transferred between home networks. The security management module is composed of a key exchange management module and an access control management module. For key exchange management module, we propose a key exchange protocol, which provides multimode of authentication mode and key exchange mode. One of these two modes is selected according to the data type. The access control management module follows the hierarchical role based access control policy to grant users their roles and to control access to LAFs and devices.