A Proposed Mechanism for Cross-Domain Authorization in Grid Computing Environment
Kaustav Roy, Avijit Bhowmick · 2012
Abstract — Authorization in Grid computing environment involves primarily the technique of providing the access control to the users for the resources. Lack of proper authorization process leads towards great loss and damage of vital data and information. The matter is more complicated in Grid environment because of the interior concept of virtual organization (VO). Role Based Access Control (RBAC) has gained significance for authorization and for providing RBAC, some sets of policies are to be created for the Grid computing environment with the corresponding virtual organizations. In this paper we have developed a novel architecture and cross-domain policy mechanism for authorization in Grid which is based on RBAC, where access control is attained through global-local role of users and resources providers. Keywords—Grid authorization, Security, RBAC, Crossdomain framework.