Scalable and efficient mobile authentication scheme preserving user privacy. (1st March 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pu, Qiong; Wang, Jian; Wu, Shuhua
• Is Part Of: International journal of ad hoc and ubiquitous computing. Volume 12:Number 2(2013)
• Page Start: 65
• Page End: 74
• Publication Date: 2013-03-01
• Subjects: roaming service -- mobile authentication -- unlinkability -- anonymity -- user mobility -- user privacy -- privacy preservation -- privacy protection -- network security -- wireless networks; Ubiquitous computing -- Periodicals; Embedded computer systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Computer architecture -- Periodicals; 004.2
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8225

Abstract

User privacy is a notable security issue in wireless communications support roaming. However, the mobile authentication schemes existing in the literature cannot achieve this goal in an efficient way. In this paper, we propose a novel lightweight authentication scheme with anonymity and unlinkability for roaming service in large–scale wireless networks. Moreover, we formally analyse our proposed scheme with the BAN–logic and show that it can withstand the several possible attacks.