Negotiating Access Control Policies Between Autonomous Domains

Abstract

Autonomous policy domains often need to share resources to accomplish a common task. To do this they must negotiate a common access control policy to the shared resources. We use mathematical techniques from game theory to show that the outcome of such negotiations can often be predicted from the distribution of power among the participants, independent of the actual mechanics of negotiation. We discuss the axiomatic derivation of some game theoretic solution concepts, and illustrate our techniques with examples.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA439714

Entities

People

  • John Baras
  • Vijay G. Bharadwaj

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Bandwidth
  • Bargaining
  • Computer Access Control
  • Cooperative Games
  • Department Of Defense
  • Game Theory
  • Language
  • Linear Programming
  • Military Research
  • Negotiations
  • Networks
  • Probability
  • Teamwork

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Theoretical Analysis.