Efficiency of the Single Sign On mechanism in a tactical network environment

Abstract

The article describes tests of efficiency of Web Single Sign On (SSO) solution used to provide authentication and authorization of user requests and responses during web portal invocation in a tactical radio network environment. The software solution was based on Fediz Apache CXF and WS-Federation standard configured with Passive Requestor Profile. There has been created tactical network environment with real PR4G radios configured to work in the IP PASS mode. The article discusses the scenario used for the experiment, results of the response times and success rate of secure web portal invocations on the tactical level. The results of tests may be also important for the Federated Mission Network (FMN) deployment since the solution tested follows FMN configuration template for Web Authentication Services. Keywords-SSO, WS-Federation, web portal, tactical network environmentI.