A user friendly authentication scheme with anonymity for wireless communications

  • Authors:
  • Eun-Jun Yoon;Kee-Young Yoo;Keum-Sook Ha

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyuk-Dong, Buk-Gu, Daegu 702-701, South Korea;Department of Computer Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyuk-Dong, Buk-Gu, Daegu 702-701, South Korea;Division of Computer Information and Electronics, Kumi College, 407 Bugok-Dong, Gumi-City, Gyungbook 730-711, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Electrical Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Secure user authentication is an important issue for wireless environment such as GSM, CDPD, and 3G and 4G wireless systems. Especially, anonymity of the mobile users should be guaranteed to protect the privacy of the mobile users. This paper proposes a user friendly authentication scheme with anonymity for wireless communications that not only can overcome the weaknesses of the previous related schemes, but also can provide efficiency and security to suitable for battery-powered mobile devices in wireless communication systems.