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An effective authentication mechanism for ubiquitous collaboration in heterogeneous computing environment

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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.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the MKE (Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the “Employment Contract based Master’s Degree Program for Information Security” supervised by the KISA (Korea Internet Security Agency) and by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology(No. 2012R1A1A1010667).

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  1. Graduate School of Information and Communications, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea

    Soobok Shin & Hongjin Yeh

  2. Division of Information Computer Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea

    Taeshik Shon

  3. Graduate School of Department of Knowledge Information Engineering, Suwon, Korea

    Kangseok Kim

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Shin, S., Shon, T., Yeh, H. et al. An effective authentication mechanism for ubiquitous collaboration in heterogeneous computing environment. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 7, 612–619 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-013-0220-8

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