Adopting Attribute-Based Access Control to Data Distribution Service

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is characterized by heterogeneous protocols and technologies which co-operate to provide various innovative services in various application domains. In the last few years, several protocols and approaches have been developed and proposed to support the connectivity, interoperability, and security in the IoT. The Data Distribution Service (DDS), which is a standard for data-centric publish/subscribe communication, is introduced to address interoperability in the IoT. DDS defines its own access control model that can be adapted to Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for greater flexibility. In this work, we present a feasibility study on how Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) can be adopted to DDS.