An efficient mobile authentication scheme for wireless networks

作者：Tang Caimu^*; Wu Dapeng Oliver

来源：IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2008, 7(4): 1408-1416.

DOI：10.1109/TWC.2008.061080

• mobile authentication
• denial-of-service attack
• message en route attack
• false base station attack
• elliptic-curve cryptosystems

This paper proposes an efficient authentication scheme, which is suitable for low-power mobile devices. It uses an elliptic-curve-cryptosystem based trust delegation mechanism to generate a delegation passcode for mobile station authentication, and it can effectively defend all known attacks to mobile networks including the denial-of-service attack. Moreover, the mobile station only needs to receive one message and send one message to authenticate itself to a visitor';s location register, and the scheme only requires a single elliptic-curve scalar point multiplication on a mobile device. Therefore, this scheme enjoys both computation efficiency and communication efficiency as compared to known mobile authentication schemes.

• 出版日期2008-4