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An efficient authentication and key agreement scheme with user anonymity for roaming service in smart city

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Smart city improves quality of life for urban residents by using multiple information and communication technologies. As the network infrastructure of smart city, GLObal MObility NETwork (GLOMONET) can offer seamless network connection service for mobile subscribers. Whereas, because of the opening characteristics of wireless channel and various attacks, security becomes a vital issue in GLOMONET. Recently, Karuppiah and Saravanan proposed an enhanced user authentication for roaming service in GLOMONET. Unfortunately, their scheme lacks the features of session key update and perfect forward secrecy, and the session key can be revealed by home agent. Besides, their scheme faces clock synchronization problem and efficiency problem. In order to provide secure authentication service, a novel ECC (elliptic curve cryptosystem)- based user authentication scheme for roaming service in smart city is proposed in this manuscript. The security features of the proposed scheme are formally evaluated by using provable security method under random oracle model and also present informal analysis. In addition, comparative analysis is given among our scheme and relevant protocols. The results of comparative analysis illustrate that the proposed protocol provides robust and efficient for roaming service in smart city.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant nos. 61300220 & 61572013 & 61572188 & 61672295, and the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department under grant no. 16B089. Besides, it is also supported by PAPD, CICAEET, the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for funding this work through Research Group Number (RG-288), Fujian Education and Scientific Research Program for Young and Middle-aged Teachers under grant no. JA14369, and University Distinguished Young Research Talent Training Program of Fujian Province (Year 2016).

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, 411201, China

    Xiong Li

  2. School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, 632014, Tamil Nadu, India

    Arun Kumar Sangaiah

  3. Department of Mathematics, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, 250004, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Saru Kumari

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Xiamen Institute of Technology, Xiamen, 361021, China

    Fan Wu

  5. School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Jian Shen

  6. Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11653, Saudi Arabia

    Muhammad Khurram Khan

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Li, X., Sangaiah, A.K., Kumari, S. et al. An efficient authentication and key agreement scheme with user anonymity for roaming service in smart city. Pers Ubiquit Comput 21, 791–805 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-1054-9

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