Title
QoS aware descriptions for RESTful service composition: security domain
Date Issued
27 July 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Sepulveda C.
Alarcon R.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Publisher(s)
Springer New York LLC
Abstract
Current research on QoS aware service composition focuses on a WSDL/RPC service paradigm, characterized by a centralized, synchronous, and stateful approach. In this paper, we explore QoS aware RESTful services composition, which is characterized by a decentralized, stateless and hypermedia-driven environment. We focus particularly on the security domain since current security practices on the Web illustrate the differences between both the centralized, function-based approach and the decentralized, hypermedia and resource-based approach. We rely on ReLL (a REST service description) that can be processed by machine-clients in order to interact with RESTful services. Our approach identifies key security domain elements as an ontology. Elements serve to model hypermedia-based, decentralized security descriptions supporting simple and complex interaction such as protocols and callbacks. In this paper, we propose an extension to ReLL that considers security constraints (ReLL-S) and allows a machine-client to interact with secured resources, where security conditions may change dynamically. A case study illustrates our approach.
Start page
767
End page
794
Volume
18
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84933181898
Source
World Wide Web
ISSN of the container
1386145X
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