An experiment scheduler and federated authentication solution for remote laboratory access

Abstract

This paper addresses the needs involved in authentication and authorization when target engineering experiments are exported from the remote experimental server to an end-user experiment scheduler web server (SWS). A solution is discussed based on using a novel unified framework for engineering experiments and integrating MD5 encryption and decryption algorithm-based security management engine for a federated authentication and authorization uniform resource locator (URL). The established remote engineering laboratory at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) demonstrates the efficiency of the proposed SWS and authentication method.