Title: RBACA: role-based access control architecture for multi-domain cloud environment

Authors: Chaitali Uikey; D.S. Bhilare

Addresses: School of Computer Science & IT, Devi Ahilya University, Khandwa Road, 452017 Indore, MP, India ' School of Computer Science & IT, Devi Ahilya University, Khandwa Road, 452017 Indore, MP, India

Abstract: Cloud computing is an emerging area as a new arrangement of wide-area distributed computing. Sharing of resources and services over the network are heterogeneous, dynamic, and multi-domain. Security issue is also a serious problem in a cloud computing environment. Similarly, access control and authorisation are an important aspect of the security. The paper proposes a scalable access control architecture and authorisation, for cloud computing environment. A new access control architecture is proposed which is based on traditional access control, role-based access control (RBAC) model. The paper provides a flexible framework for policy announcement management approach for a multi-domain cloud environment. A policy language (XACML) is used for the demonstration of access control policies. This provides a general and standard provision of different resources and services.

Keywords: cloud computing; multi-domain architecture; role based access control; control architecture.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2018.091160

International Journal of Business Information Systems, 2018 Vol.28 No.1, pp.1 - 17

Received: 07 Aug 2015
Accepted: 22 Aug 2016

Published online: 13 Apr 2018 *

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