An authentication framework for roaming service in global mobility networks

Abstract

In global mobility networks (GLOMONET), to provide secure and privacy-preserving communication among authorized mobile users in roaming services is not an easy task. To achieve authorized communication, mutual authentication is performed among legal users in GLOMONET. Therefore, security as well as privacy should be addressed in designing the security protocols for GLOMONET. In recent years, most of the research work is focused on one-way authentication and does not have desirable security attributes. In this paper, we discuss the development of authentication protocol for GLOMONET. To address security and privacy issues in authorized communication, we proposed a provably secure authentication protocol for GLOMONET. To identify the resistance against known attacks, we have analyzed the scheme against all known attacks. The comparative study on the security and performance with the related results manifests that the proposed scheme addresses the security and privacy challenges and avails comparable performance.