An effective authentication mechanism for ubiquitous collaboration in heterogeneous computing environment

作者：Shin Soobok; Shon Taeshik; Yeh Hongjin; Kim Kangseok^*

来源：Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, 2014, 7(4): 612-619.

DOI：10.1007/s12083-013-0220-8

• Ubiquitous collaboration
• Authentication
• Ubiquitous convergence networks
• Mobile device

With the advent of new generation of mobile access devices such as smartphone and tablet PC, there is coming a need for ubiquitous collaboration which allows people to access information systems with their disparate access devices and to communicate with others in anytime and in anywhere. As the number of collaborators with a large number of disparate access devices increases in ubiquitous collaboration environment, the difficulties for protecting secured resources from unauthorized users as well as unsecured access devices will increase since the resources can be compromised by inadequately secured human and devices. Therfore, authentication mechanism for access of legitimate participants is essential in ubiquitous collaboration environment. In this paper we present an efficient authentication mechanism in ubiquitous collaboration environment. We show that proposed scheme is secure through security analysis and is efficient through the experimental results obtained from the practical evaluation of the scheme in ubiquitous collaboration environment.

• 出版日期2014-12