Title: Scalable and efficient mobile authentication scheme preserving user privacy

Authors: Qiong Pu; Jian Wang; Shuhua Wu

Addresses: CIMS Research Center, Tongji University, Shanghai, China; State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Department of Electronics, Institute of Science, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, China ' CIMS Research Center, Tongji University, Shanghai, China ' Department of Networks Engineering, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, China; State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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.

Keywords: roaming service; mobile authentication; unlinkability; anonymity; user mobility; user privacy; privacy preservation; privacy protection; network security; wireless networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2013.052345

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2013 Vol.12 No.2, pp.65 - 74

Received: 17 May 2011
Accepted: 30 Sep 2011

Published online: 28 Feb 2013 *

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