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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Kang, I.E.a | Keefe, T.F.b
Affiliations: [a] GTE Laboratories Inc., 40 Sylvan Rd, Waltham, MA 02254, U.S.A. | [b] Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A.
Abstract: A multilevel secure (MLS) replicated database system consists of a set of untrusted databases, one at each security level. Each database contains object replicas from dominated levels. To ensure consistency, the transaction scheduler at each level must produce a serializable schedule with a serialization order compatible with those of all dominated databases, a property we call downward compatibility. For some security label orderings, however, such a mechanism without additional synchronization can result in a nonserializable global schedule. In this paper, we identify a class of partially ordered sets (posets) we call multilevel-acyclic, which is sufficient to guarantee a serializable global order when only downward compatibility is enforced. We present a basic protocol and show it is correct for multilevel-acyclic posets. To deal with posets outside this class, we propose a timestamp-based protocol. Our timestamp-based protocol works for all posets by a carefule timestamp assignment and commiting transactions in timestamp order. We also present an untrusted (distributed) method of timestamp generation for the timestamp-based protocol.
Keywords: Transaction processing, Multilevel security, Database system, Replicated database
DOI: 10.3233/JCS-1994/1995-32-303
Journal: Journal of Computer Security, vol. 3, no. 2-3, pp. 115-145, 1995
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