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      ENABLING ATTRIBUTE BASED ACCESS CONTROL WITHIN THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)

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      Date
      2016-11-08
      Author
      Hemdi, Marwah 1989-
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      With the wide-scale development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the usage of low-powered devices (sensors) together with smart devices, numerous people are using IoT systems in their homes and businesses to have more control over their technology. Unfortunately, some users of IoT systems that are controlled by a mobile application do not have a high level of data protection to respond in case the device is lost, stolen, or used by one of the owner’s friends or family members. The problem studied in this research is how to apply one of access control methods an IoT system whether they are stored locally on a sensor or on a cloud. To solve the problem, an attribute-based access control (ABAC) mechanism is applied to give the system the ability to apply policies to detect any unauthorized entry by evaluating some of the users’ attributes: the accessed time, the device media access control address (MAC address), the username, and password. Finally, a prototype was built to test the proposed solution in two ways; one is locally on a low-powered device, the second using cloud platform for the data storage. To evaluate both the prototype implementation, this research had an evaluation plan to mimic the real-world interactions by obtaining the response times when different numbers of requests sent from diverse numbers of users in different delays. The evaluation results showed that the first implementation was noticeably faster than the second implementation.
      Degree
      Master of Science (M.Sc.)
      Department
      Computer Science
      Program
      Computer Science
      Supervisor
      Deters, Ralph
      Committee
      Vassileva, Julita; Greer, Jim; Chen, Daniel
      Copyright Date
      October 2016
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/7569
      Subject
      IoT
      ABAC
      CoAP
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