CARMA: Composable-Adaptive Resource Management Authorization for ubiquitous environments

The ever increasing diversity and mobility of devices have originated a marked rise in ubiquitous resources; a great number of collaborative applications could be exploited just by employing an efficient ubiquitous resource management mechanism. The CARM (Composable-Adaptive Resource Management) middleware-based architecture provides a flexible infrastructure where personal devices create seamlessly on demand interconnections links to share ubiquitous resources. In this article we address CARM´s security challenges and to overcome these we propose the CARM Authorization (CARMA) module; in CARMA each user acts as an Attribute Authority (AA) responsible of issuing Attribute Certificates (ACs) and defining for each resource a set of policy-based authorization decisions; CARMA´s Alerting System (AS) allows users to work in a collaborative mode by warning others of malicious nodes even when no infrastructure is available. This research mainly describes ongoing work towards a proof-of-concept implementation in the given scenarios. Our proposal enforces security considering the bandwidth efficiency and therefore enhancing the dynamic resource management experience in ubiquitous environments.