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Design and Validation of an Efficient Authentication Scheme with Anonymity for Roaming Service in Global Mobility Networks

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Designing a user authentication protocol with anonymity for the global mobility network (GLOMONET) is a difficult task because wireless networks are susceptible to attacks and each mobile user has limited power, processing and storage resources. In this paper, a secure and lightweight user authentication protocol with anonymity for roaming service in the GLOMONET is proposed. Compared with other related approaches, our proposal has many advantages. Firstly, it uses low-cost functions such as one-way hash functions and exclusive-OR operations to achieve security goals. Having this feature, it is more suitable for battery-powered mobile devices. Secondly, it uses nonces instead of timestamps to avoid the clock synchronization problem. Therefore, an additional clock synchronization mechanism is not needed. Thirdly, it only requires four message exchanges between the user, foreign agent and home agent. Further, the security properties of our protocol are formally validated by a model checking tool called AVISPA. We also demonstrate that this protocol enjoys important security attributes including prevention of various attacks, single registration, user anonymity, no password table, and high efficiency in password authentication. Security and performance analyses show that compared with other related authentication schemes, the proposed scheme is more secure and efficient.

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  1. College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Daojing He, Chun Chen, Jiajun Bu & Rong Fan

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Sammy Chan

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He, D., Chan, S., Chen, C. et al. Design and Validation of an Efficient Authentication Scheme with Anonymity for Roaming Service in Global Mobility Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 61, 465–476 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-010-0033-5

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