Exploring a Context-based Network Access Control for Mobile Devices

Yaser Mowafi, Dhiah el Diehn I. Abou-Tair, Ahmad Zmily, Tareq Al-Aqarbeh, Marat Abilov, Viktor Dmitriyevr
2015 Procedia Computer Science  
Significant advancement in mobile devices coupled with high speed networks have shifted personal computing towards pervasive environments. Mobile devices currently offer many value-added applications and services such as emailing, messaging, navigation, social networking, finance, and entertainment. Typically, such value-added applications have access to users' personal information and are capable of gathering and transmitting trust sensitive information, hence posing security risks and/or
more » ... cy concerns. In this paper, we propose a context-based analytic hierarchy process (AHP) framework for eliciting context information and adapting this information with network access control measures for mobile devices. The framework enforces the execution of mobile applications inside security incubators to control the communication between mobile applications and mobile device resources. Mobile applications' access requests are analyzed based on user's context information collected from the mobile device sensors and the application network access control configuration. We use the Facebook mobile application, as a test case, to evaluate our proposed framework. Evaluation results have demonstrated the efficacy of the framework in providing network access control measures based on real-time assessment of user's context.
doi:10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.530 fatcat:q6sbsc2ysjfmrbetlglg2lwi3i