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Architecture Patterns for a Ubiquitous Identity Management System

Authors:
Anders Fongen

Keywords: identity management

Abstract:
The design of an Identity Management System (IdM) must strike a balance between protocol overhead, software footprint and security level in order to operate successfully under the resource constraints found in mobile and wireless systems. But, what is good for a constrained system is also good for everyone else, in the sense that reduced overhead benefits all business application processing. This paper contributes to the discussion of IdM construction by suggesting patterns that preserves existing investments, maintains adaptability, scalability and modularity of the IdM. It also provides a discussion where security level is balanced with other non-functional requirements, which is seen less often in security research. A prototypical IdM systems built upon the proposed principles is also presented to some detail.

Pages: 66 to 71

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: January 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4243

ISBN: 978-1-61208-114-4

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from January 23, 2011 to January 28, 2011