Authorised domain management using location based services
Imad M. Abbadi · 2007
This paper focuses on creating a secure domain consisting of all devices owned by a single owner. This domain allows secure content sharing between devices in each domain and prevents the illegal copying of content to devices outside the domain. This paper proposes a novel solution for binding a domain to a single owner, ensuring that only a single consumer owns and manages each domain. This enables binding of domain licences to a domain owner, thereby limiting illicit content proliferation. Our novel idea involves the use of location based services, ensuring that devices, when joining a consumer domain, are located in physical proximity to the domain registered addresses. This restricts domain membership to devices in predefined geographical locations, helping to ensure that a single consumer owns and manages each domain. In addition, the proposed scheme helps to protect consumer privacy; location-based service is only required for managing domain membership, and it is not required for creating, downloading or exchanging content; in addition, the proposed scheme uses the Geographic location/privacy protocol (Geopriv), which enables domain owners to control the precision or resolution of location data, and when, in which location, and by whom their location can be retrieved.