ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
IEEE Internet Computing
Single Sign-On Using Cookies for Web Applications
WETICE '99 Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Enabling Technologies on Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Seamless User-Level Handoff in Ubiquitous Multimedia Service Delivery
Multimedia Tools and Applications
MobiDesk: mobile virtual desktop computing
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Enhancing mobility management protocols to minimise AAA impact on handoff performance
Computer Communications
Ubiquitous device personalization and use: The next generation of IP multimedia communications
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Load-Balancing SSL Cluster Using Session Migration
AINA '07 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Networking and Applications
Live migration of virtual machines
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
Resilient connections for SSH and TLS
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
Towards transport-layer mobility: Evolution of SCTP multihoming
Computer Communications
An application of the context transfer protocol: IPsec in a IPv6 mobility environment
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Handling mobility over the network
CFI '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Future Internet Technologies
Automatic multimedia session migration by means of a context-aware mobility framework
Mobility '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Technology, Application & Systems
Stateful session handoff for mobile WWW
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A SIP-based web client for HTTP session mobility and multimedia services
Computer Communications
Strong authentication with mobile phone
ISC'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Information Security
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Consumers increasingly access services with different devices such as desktop workstations, notepad computers and mobile phones. When they want to switch to another device while using a service, they have to re-authenticate. If several services and authenticated sessions are open, switching between the devices becomes cumbersome. Single Sign-on (SSO) techniques help to log in to several services but re-authentication is still necessary after changing the device. This clearly violates the goal of seamless mobility that is the target of much recent research. In this paper, we propose and implement migration of authentication session between a desktop computer and a mobile device. The solution is based on transferring the authentication session cookies. We tested the session migration with the OpenID, Shibboleth and CAS single sign-on systems and show that when the authentication cookies are transferred, the service sessions continue seamlessly and do not require re-authentication. The migration requires changes on the client web browsers but they can be implemented as web browser extensions and only minimal configuration changes on server side are sometimes required. The results of our study show that the client-to-client authentication session migration enables easy switching between client devices in online services where the service state is kept in the cloud and the web browser is acting as the user interface.