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Efficient Hierarchical Multi-Server Authentication Protocol for Mobile Cloud Computing
Jiangheng Kou1, Mingxing He1, *, Ling Xiong1, Zihang Ge2, Guangmin Xie1
1 School of Computer and Software Engineering, Xihua University, Chengdu, 610039, China.
2 Illinois Institute of Technology, Miles (Main) Campus, Chicago, 60616, USA.
* Corresponding Author: Mingxing He. Email: .
Computers, Materials & Continua 2020, 64(1), 297-312. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.09758
Received 17 January 2020; Accepted 04 March 2020; Issue published 20 May 2020
Abstract
With the development of communication technologies, various mobile devices
and different types of mobile services became available. The emergence of these services
has brought great convenience to our lives. The multi-server architecture authentication
protocols for mobile cloud computing were proposed to ensure the security and
availability between mobile devices and mobile services. However, most of the protocols
did not consider the case of hierarchical authentication. In the existing protocol, when a
mobile user once registered at the registration center, he/she can successfully authenticate
with all mobile service providers that are registered at the registration center, but real
application scenarios are not like this. For some specific scenarios, some mobile service
providers want to provide service only for particular users. For this reason, we propose a
new hierarchical multi-server authentication protocol for mobile cloud computing. The
proposed protocol ensures only particular types of users can successfully authenticate
with certain types of mobile service providers. The proposed protocol reduces computing
and communication costs by up to 42.6% and 54.2% compared to two superior protocols.
The proposed protocol can also resist the attacks known so far.
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Cite This Article
J. Kou, M. He, L. Xiong, Z. Ge and G. Xie, "Efficient hierarchical multi-server authentication protocol for mobile cloud computing,"
Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 64, no.1, pp. 297–312, 2020.
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