A Secure Context-aware Content Sharing Kiosk for Mobile Devices in Low-Resourced Environments
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Date
2020
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SAIEE Africa Research Journal
Abstract
Despite the explosion of mobile subscribers in Sub-
Saharan Africa, there is still a challenge of delivering the
appropriate content to the users taking into account of various
Internet connectivity constraints and emerging security requirements.
Although technologies for information sharing are steadily
growing, the communication infrastructure that provides the
backbone of third or fourth generation connectivity requires
a lot of capital and is often limited by geographical coverage.
Motivated by these challenges and constraints, this paper presents
a design of the Secure Context-aware Content Sharing Kiosk, an
enhancement to the previous Content Sharing Kiosk approaches
with support for secure online and offline content distribution and
sharing. A hybrid of a role and lease-based security and privacy
model was embedded in the design to control distribution of
information across different recipients. The lease-based security
and privacy model combines the strengths of the role-based
security and privacy models by allowing mobile content users
to have control over the content sharing through pre-defined
conditions of content leasing. Such conditions include time and
location thereby enabling users able to lease out information
to other users on the network. Upon expiry or violation, the
leased information expires. In order to renew access to such
information, users are able to request for the renewal of the
lease from the content owner. The designed Kiosk was validated
using a case study for content sharing in a hospital setting. The
research results of this paper, contributes new knowledge in the
line of design and development, and can be re-used in other
settings with minimal customization
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Keywords
Mobile kiosk, Content sharing, Context-aware, Low-resourced environments, Open sharing toolkit, Lease-based
Citation
Ssebwana, A. K., & Bainomugisha, E. (2020). A Secure Context-aware Content Sharing Kiosk for Mobile Devices in Low-Resourced Environments. SAIEE Africa Research Journal, 111(3), 102-110.