Authors:
Ana-Maria Pricochi
;
Andreea Salinca
;
Sorin Mircea Rusu
and
Bogdan Ivascu
Affiliation:
SOFTWIN, Romania
Keyword(s):
Authentication System, Biometrics, Distributed Computing, Dynamic Signature, Load Balancing, Online Signature, Service-Level-Agreement, Task Scheduling.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Access Control
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Data Security
;
Distributed and Parallel Applications
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Internet Technology
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Biometrics are a nowadays trend in developing secure systems. Biometric authentication systems must provide a higher processing capacity, as biometric verifications are complex. Distributed computing relieves the computational burden, but the efficient scheduling of biometric authentication requests is still an open problem. This paper presents a distributed system for handling handwritten signature authentication requests, with a dynamic load balancer ensuring service-level-agreement compliance, low response times, fair use of resources and high availability. The load balancing method uses the service-level-agreements information, the classification of processing nodes and the classification of authentication tasks.