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Autonomous Decentralized Tenant Access Control Model for Sub-tenancy Architecture in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

  • Qiong Zuo
  • , Meiyi Xie
  • , Wei Tek Tsai
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • Arizona State University

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Abstract

Sub-Tenancy Architecture (STA), is an extension of Multi-Tenancy Architecture (MTA), allows tenants to offer services for subtenant developers to customize their applications in the SaaS infrastructure [1]. In a STA system, tenants are autonomous decentralized entities who can create subtenants, and grant their resources (including private services and data) to their subtenants. The isolation and sharing relations between parent-child tenants, sibling tenants or non-related tenants are more complicated than those between tenants in MTA. It is important to keep resource private, and at the same time, allow them to be shared, and support application customizations for tenants. This paper provides a formal definition of a new tenant-based access control model based on Administrative Role-Based Access Control (ARBAC) for STA in SaaS. Autonomous Areas (AA) and AA-tree are proposed to describe the autonomy of tenants, including their isolation and sharing relationships. Different resource sharing methods are given out to create and deploy the access control scheme in STA models.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE 12th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages211-216
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479982615
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Apr 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event2015 12th IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2015 - Taichung, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 25 Mar 201527 Mar 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2015 IEEE 12th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2015

Conference

Conference2015 12th IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2015
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaichung
Period25/03/1527/03/15

Keywords

  • Multi-Tenancy Architecture (MTA)
  • Rolebased Access Control (RBAC) Model
  • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
  • Sub-Tenancy Architecture (STA)
  • Tenant-based Access Control Model

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