Quality of Security Service

Abstract

We examine the concept of security as a dimension of Quality of Service in distributed systems. Implicit to the concept of Quality of Service is the notion of choice or variation. Security services also offer a range of choice both from the user perspective and among the underlying resources. We provide a discussion and examples of user-specified security variables and show how the range of service levels associated with these variables can support the provision of Quality of Security Service, whereby security is a constructive network management tool rather than a performance obstacle. We also discuss various design implications regarding security ranges provided in a QoS-aware distributed system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA484594

Entities

People

  • Cynthia E. Irvine
  • Timothy E. Levin

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Communication Channels
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Cryptography
  • Detection
  • High Resolution
  • Information Security
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Intrusion Detectors
  • Low Resolution
  • Operating Systems
  • Reliability
  • Resource Management
  • Security

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Systems Analysis and Design