Title :
Maintaining consistency of the security policy using timestamp ordering
Author :
Ngamsuriyaroj, Sudsanguan ; Hurson, A.R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper we propose an invalidation-based consistency protocol using timestamp ordering for concurrency control. The protocol works for a system composed of a security server and object managers located on different machines. The security server defines the security policy in a small database and object managers enforce the policy replicated on each machine. Thus, the system can be modeled as a replicated database. Since transient inconsistency among replicas may lead to unauthorized accesses, our goal of consistency is one-copy serializability (1SR) because it guarantees a one-copy view of the security policy regardless of which copy is accessed. However the requirement for good performance is also desirable. We evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol and compare it with the performance of the transactional consistency protocol, an invalidation-based consistency protocol based on a locking mechanism. Both protocols guarantee 1SR consistency. The results show that both protocols demonstrate compatible performance. However the proposed protocol offers 1SR consistency with less overhead.
Keywords :
concurrency control; data integrity; protocols; replicated databases; security of data; concurrency control; invalidation-based consistency protocol; locking mechanism; object managers; one-copy serializability; performance evaluation; replicated database; security policy; security server; small database; timestamp ordering; unauthorized accesses; Access protocols; Computer architecture; Computer science; Computer security; Concurrency control; Control systems; Data security; Databases; Maintenance engineering; System recovery;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2002. Proceedings. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1506-1
DOI :
10.1109/ITCC.2002.1000381