Design and evaluation of access control model based on classification of users' network behaviors

Abstract

Nowadays, the rapid development of the Internet brings great convenience to people's daily life and work, but the existence of pornography information seriously endangers the health of youngsters. So researches on network access control model, aiming at preventing youngsters from accessing pornography information, have become a hotspot. However, existing models usually don't distinguish between adults and youngsters, and they block all the accesses to pornography information, which does not meet the actual demand. So preventing youngsters from accessing pornography information, while not affecting the freedom of expressions in adults, has become a reasonable yet challenging alternative. In this paper, an access control model based on classification of users' network behaviors is proposed, and this model can effectively make a decision whether to allow one's access to pornography information according to its age. Besides, an evaluation framework is also proposed, through which the model's controllability, cost-effectiveness and users' accessibility are analyzed respectively. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.