Securing Mobile Cloud Using Finger Print Authentication

Abstract

Mobile cloud computing becomes part of mobile users daily life transactions. Mobile devices with Internet capabilities have increased the use of mobile clouding computing. Due to hardware limitations in mobile devices, these devices can't install and run applications require heavy CPU processing or extensive memory. Cloud computing allows mobile users to synchronize their data with remote storage and utilize applications require heavy CPU processing or extensive memory such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Photoshop, as they run in a desktop computer. The combination of cloud computing and mobile computing introduces mobile cloud computing, which also present new issues of security threats such as unauthorized access to resources exist in mobile cloud. Protecting mobile cloud computing from illegitimate access becomes an important concern to mobile users. This paper proposes and implements a new user authentication mechanism of mobile cloud computing using fingerprint recognition system. Fingerprint images of mobile users can be captured and processed using mobile phone camera to access mobile cloud computing . The implementation of the proposed solution in different mobile operating systems and devices show security enhancement in mobile cloud computing with accepted performance level.