Congratulations to Ragib Hasan, Rasib Khan, Shams Zawoad, and Munirul Haque for having their work “WORAL: A Witness Oriented Secure Location Provenance Framework for Mobile Devices” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing.
Ragib Hasan, Rasib Khan, Shams Zawoad, Md Haque, “WORAL: A Witness Oriented Secure Location Provenance Framework for Mobile Devices”, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) SI on Cyber Security, 2015
Abstract
Location based services allow mobile device users to access various services based on the users’ current physical location information. Path-critical applications, such as supply chain verification, require a chronological ordering of location proofs. It is a significant challenge in distributed and user-centric architectures for users to prove their presence and the path of travel in a privacy-protected and secure manner. So far, proposed schemes for secure location proofs are mostly subject to tampering, not resistant to collusion attacks, do not offer preservation of the provenance, and are not flexible enough for users to prove their provenance of location proofs. In this paper, we present WORAL, a complete ready-to-deploy framework for generating and validating witness oriented asserted location provenance records. The WORAL framework is based on the Asserted Location Proof protocol [1] and the OTIT model [2] for generating secure location provenance on the mobile devices. WORAL allows user-centric, collusion resistant, tamper-evident, privacy protected, verifiable, and provenance preserving location proofs for mobile devices. The paper presents the schematic development, feasibility of usage, comparative advantage over similar protocols, and implementation of WORAL for Android device users including a Google Glass based client for enhanced usability.
Look at our videos online
1. Ragib Hasan, 2013 DHS S&T PI Meeting, VA, USA
2. WORAL Project Promo Video
References
[1] Rasib Khan, Shams Zawoad, Md Munirul Haque and Ragib Hasan, “Who, When, and Where? Location Proof Assertion for Mobile Devices“, DBSEC 2014 Vienna, Austria, July 14-16, 2014. [pdf]
[2] Rasib Khan, Shams Zawoad, Md. Haque, and Ragib Hasan, “OTIT: Towards Secure Provenance Modeling for Location Proofs“, in Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Kyoto, Japan, June 2014. [pdf]
