Toward Advance Resource Reservation in Mobile Grid Configurations Based on User-Centric Authentication

There has been growing interest in the use of mobile devices for providing access to the various applications, services and resources within grid computing environments. As is the case for most access to grid resources, the use of mobile devices requires user authentication. Given the limited amount of power available for mobile devices, the applications on these devices, including the authentication services used to access grid resources, must be designed to conserve power. In this paper, we present an authentication architecture utilizing a “lightweight” user-centric authentication approach. Specifically, we aim to provide mobile users with access to advance resource reservation within grid environments, and, consequently, our approach incorporates this objective. The approach, however, applies to user authentication with any grid resource or service. In attempting to overcome the limitations of mobile devices, such as limited battery power, mobile users can utilize grid environments in a transparent and secure way.