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The federation is a special case of open system where the resources are controlled and accessed by cooperation of one or more roles in the federation. The federation system needs a few special treatments like a subset ownership (i.e. multiple user ownership) of the objects, dynamic access right allocation etc. The treatments can not be handled by any combination of mandatory, discretionary and role-based access control models (i.e. MAC, DAC and RBAC). This paper gives a theoretical study on an access control model in federating systems by analysing the nature of subjects, objects and their relationships; and then proposes a generic access control model for any federation system. The safety proof shows that the federation system always remains in a safe state using the proposed federation access control model.
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Nimkar, A.V., Ghosh, S.K. (2014). A Theoretical Study on Access Control Model in Federated Systems. In: MartÃnez Pérez, G., Thampi, S.M., Ko, R., Shu, L. (eds) Recent Trends in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Security. SNDS 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 420. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54525-2_28
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