A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MOBILE WEB SERVICES SECURITY

Satish Narayana Srirama, Matthias Jarke, Wolfgang Prinz

2007

Abstract

It is now feasible to host basic web services on a smart phone due to the advances in wireless devices and mobile communication technologies. The market capture of mobile web services also has increased significantly, in the past years. While the applications are quite welcoming, the ability to provide secure and reliable communication in the vulnerable and volatile mobile ad-hoc topologies is vastly becoming necessary. Even though a lot of standardized security specifications like WS-Security, SAML exist for web services in the wired networks, not much has been analyzed and standardized in the wireless environments. In this paper we give our analysis of adapting some of the security standards, especially WS-Security to the cellular domain, with performance statistics. The performance latencies are obtained and analyzed while observing the performance and quality of service of our Mobile Host.

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Narayana Srirama S., Jarke M. and Prinz W. (2007). A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MOBILE WEB SERVICES SECURITY . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-77-1, pages 386-392. DOI: 10.5220/0001276603860392


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@conference{webist07,
author={Satish Narayana Srirama and Matthias Jarke and Wolfgang Prinz},
title={A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MOBILE WEB SERVICES SECURITY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2007},
pages={386-392},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001276603860392},
isbn={978-972-8865-77-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MOBILE WEB SERVICES SECURITY
SN - 978-972-8865-77-1
AU - Narayana Srirama S.
AU - Jarke M.
AU - Prinz W.
PY - 2007
SP - 386
EP - 392
DO - 10.5220/0001276603860392