2018/10/01 by Zhiyi Zhang, Yingdi Yu, Sanjeev Kaushik Ramani +3 · 55 citations
Computer Science · #Access control #Caching and Content Delivery #Computer network #Computer science #Computer security #Confidentiality #Cooperative Communication and Network Coding #Cryptography #Cryptography and Data Security #Data access #Database #Distributed computing #Encryption #Flexibility (engineering) #Key management #Namespace #Operating system #Scalability #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.1109/milcom.2018.8599774
published as IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2018, 626-633 · Originally published in MILCOM 2018. This version includes some writing improvements
openalex publication_date 2018/10/01 · arxiv created 2019/02/26 · arxiv updated 2021/06/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In this paper we present the design of Name-based Access Control (NAC) scheme, which supports data confidentiality and access control in Named Data Networking (NDN) architecture by encrypting content at the time of production, and by automating the distribution of encryption and decryption keys. NAC achieves the above design goals by leveraging specially crafted NDN naming conventions to define and enforce access control policies, and to automate the cryptographic key management. The paper also explains how NDN's hierarchically structured namespace allows NAC to support fine-grained access control policies, and how NDN's Interest-Data exchange can help NAC to function in case of intermittent connectivity. Moreover, we show that NAC design can be further extended to support Attribute-based Encryption (ABE), which supports access control with additional levels of flexibility and scalability.