A Global Ticket-Based Access Scheme for Mobile Users

  • Authors:
  • Hua Wang;Yanchun Zhang;Jinli Cao;Yahiko Kambayahsi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Maths & Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba QLD 4350, Australia. wang@usq.edu.au;School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Victoria University, Melbourne VIC 8001, Australia. yzhang@csm.vu.edu.au;Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia. jinli@cs.latrobe.edu.au;Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. yahiko@db.soc.i.kyoto.ac.jp

  • Venue:
  • Information Systems Frontiers
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This article presents a ticket-based access model for mobile services. The model supports efficient authentication of users, services and service providers over different domains. Tickets are used to verify correctness of the requested service as well as to direct billing information to the appropriate user. The service providers can avoid roaming to multiple service domains, only contacting a Credential Centre to certify the user's ticket since tickets carry all authorization information needed for the requested services. The user can preserve anonymity and read a clear record of charges in the Credential Centre at anytime. Furthermore, the identity of misbehaving users can be revealed by a Trusted Centre.