A secure authentication scheme for MobiCloud

Donald, A. Cecil; Arockiam, L.

doi:10.1109/iccci.2015.7218101

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“…On the other hand, there are some authentication infrastructures, which focus on user authentication within the same trust domain, explicitly designed for edge paradigms. For example, Donald et al [77] defined a centralized infrastructure for MCC where a single trusted third party serves as the authentication server. However, this approach requires the authentication server to be accessible at all times, thus their applicability is limited.…”

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Mobile edge computing, Fog et al.: A survey and analysis of security threats and challenges

Román

López

Mambo

2018

Future Generation Computer Systems

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For various reasons, the cloud computing paradigm is unable to meet certain requirements (e.g. low latency and jitter, context awareness, mobility support) that are crucial for several applications (e.g. vehicular networks, augmented reality). To fulfil these requirements, various paradigms, such as fog computing, mobile edge computing, and mobile cloud computing, have emerged in recent years. While these edge paradigms share several features, most of the existing research is compartmentalised; no synergies have been explored. This is especially true in the field of security, where most analyses focus only on one edge paradigm, while ignoring the others. The main goal of this study is to holistically analyse the security threats, challenges, and mechanisms inherent in all edge paradigms, while highlighting potential synergies and venues of collaboration. In our results, we will show that all edge paradigms should consider the advances in other paradigms.

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Section: Identity and Authenticationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile edge computing, Fog et al.: A survey and analysis of security threats and challenges

Román

López

Mambo

2018

Future Generation Computer Systems

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“…Our findings are summarized in Table 2. Donald and Arockiam [14] propose third-party authentication through the cloud. There are also studies [15]- [19] that use blockchain, mutual key exchanges, Reinforcement learning (RL), and federated IDs to manage Multinetwork authentication.…”

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Federated 3GPP Mobile Edge Computing Systems: A Transparent Proxy for Third Party Authentication With Application Mobility Support

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Multi-Access or Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is being deployed by 4G/5G operators to provide computational services at lower latencies. Federating MECs across operators expands capability, capacity, and coverage but gives rise to two issues for continuous service during roaming without re-authentication-third-party authentication and application mobility. In this work, we propose a Federated State transfer and 3rd-party Authentication (FS3A) mechanism that uses a transparent proxy to transfer the information of both authentication and application state across operators to resolve these issues. The FS3A proxy is kept transparent with virtual counterparts to avoid any changes to existing MEC and cellular architectures. FS3A provides users with a token which, when authenticated by an MEC, can be reused across operators for faster authentication. Prefetching of subscription and state is also proposed to further reduce authentication and application mobility latencies. We evaluated FS3A on an OpenAirInterface (OAI)-based testbed and the results show that token reuse and subscription prefetching reduce the authentication latency by 53-65%, compared to complete re-authentication, while state prefetching reduces application mobility latency by 51-91%, compared to no prefetching. Overall, FS3A reduces the service interruption time by 33%, compared to no token reuse and prefetching.INDEX TERMS Mobile edge computing, multi-access edge computing, authentication, mobility, latency, 3GPP cellular networks.

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“…Our findings are summarized in Table 1. Some studies [14] propose third-party authentication through the cloud.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Federated 3GPP Mobile Edge Computing Systems: A Transparent Proxy for Third Party Authentication with Application Mobility Support

Ali,

Khan,

Sakib

et al. 2021

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Multi-Access or Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is being deployed by 4G/5G operators to provide computational services at lower latencies. Federating MECs across operators expands capability, capacity, and coverage but gives rise to two issues-third-party authentication and application mobility-for continuous service during roaming without re-authentication. In this work, we propose a Federated State transfer and 3rd-party Authentication (FS3A) mechanism that uses a transparent proxy to transfer the information of both authentication and application state across operators to resolve these issues. The FS3A proxy is kept transparent, with virtual counterparts, to avoid any changes to the existing MEC and cellular architectures. FS3A provides users with a token, when authenticated by an MEC, which can be reused across operators for faster authentication. Prefetching of subscription and state is also proposed to further reduce the authentication and application mobility latencies. We evaluated FS3A on an OpenAirInterface (OAI)based testbed and the results show that token reuse and subscription prefetching reduce the authentication latency by 53-65%, compared to complete re-authentication, while state prefetching reduces application mobility latency by 51-91%, compared to no prefetching. Overall, FS3A reduces the service interruption time by 33%, compared to no token reuse and prefetching.

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A secure authentication scheme for MobiCloud

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Mobile edge computing, Fog et al.: A survey and analysis of security threats and challenges

Mobile edge computing, Fog et al.: A survey and analysis of security threats and challenges

Federated 3GPP Mobile Edge Computing Systems: A Transparent Proxy for Third Party Authentication With Application Mobility Support

Federated 3GPP Mobile Edge Computing Systems: A Transparent Proxy for Third Party Authentication with Application Mobility Support

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