Constraints for Attribute Based Access Control with Application in Cloud Iaas Approved by Supervising Committee:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv List of Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Chapter 1: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1.1 Attribute Based Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1.2 Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.3 Summary of Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.4 Organization of the Dissertation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 2: Background and Literature Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.1 Overview of Traditional and Existing Access Control Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.2 Attribute Based Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.2.1 Attribute Based Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.2.2 Attribute Based Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.3 Constraints Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.4 Policy Specification in cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.4.1 Related to Virtual Resources Mapping Configuration Management . . . . . 13 2.4.2 Related to Virtual Resource Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.5 Overview of OpenStack Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16