Selective Role Assignment on Dynamic Location-Based Access Control

Rapid progress of wireless communication and mobile computing has enabled people to gain resource access almost from everywhere. Location of the user now becomes a factor to be considered when granting access. Role based access control (RBAC) has been extended to include context information (i.e. location information) into the process of granting access to user. RBAC model does not give strict instruction on how to determine which roles have to be granted to the user when she loges into the system. So, in this paper, we propose a new model for location-based access control and show detailed mechanism on how to use underlying location structure information to select appropriate roles for user in a specific session.