Towards Scalability for Federated Identity Systems for Cloud-Based Environments
| Title | Towards Scalability for Federated Identity Systems for Cloud-Based Environments |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2014 |
| Authors | Albino Pereira, A., Bosco M.Sobral, J., Merkle Westphall, C. |
| Conference Name | New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), 2014 6th International Conference on |
| Date Published | March |
| Keywords | authentication, authorisation, CAS, central authentication protocols, central authentication service, cloud based environments, cloud computing, cryptographic protocols, federated identity management systems, federated identity system scalability, multitenant authorization, Proposals, Scalability, Servers, Shibboleth architecture, sticky session mechanism, Virtual machining |
| Abstract | As multi-tenant authorization and federated identity management systems for cloud computing matures, the provisioning of services using this paradigm allows maximum efficiency on business that requires access control. However, regarding scalability support, mainly horizontal, some characteristics of those approaches based on central authentication protocols are problematic. The objective of this work is to address these issues by providing an adapted sticky-session mechanism for a Shibboleth architecture using CAS. This alternative, compared with the recommended shared memory approach, shown improved efficiency and less overall infrastructure complexity. |
| DOI | 10.1109/NTMS.2014.6814055 |
| Citation Key | 6814055 |
- Scalability
- central authentication service
- cloud based environments
- Cloud Computing
- Cryptographic Protocols
- federated identity management systems
- federated identity system scalability
- multitenant authorization
- Proposals
- central authentication protocols
- Servers
- Shibboleth architecture
- sticky session mechanism
- Virtual machining
- authentication
- authorisation
- CAS