INTEGRATED IDENTITY MECHANISM FOR UBIQUITOUS SERVICE ACCESS
Author(s):
Mohammad M. R. Chowdhury,
Josef Noll
Paper abstract: Ubiquitous access and pervasive computing enable innovative services and provide the service access in
every situation. People currently rely on numerous forms of identities to access remote or proximity
services. The inconvenience of possessing and using these identities creates significant security
vulnerability. This paper proposes an architecture that integrates the identities required to access various
remote and proximity services. In the mechanism, identities are distributed into the user’s personal
device and a secure network space. Third party identity providers along with the mobile network provide
the underlying secure infrastructure for identity information exchange. In this regard, the use of multifactor
authentication contexts meets different levels of service access security requirements. At the end, a
prototypical implementation demonstrates a service access scenario based on the proposed mechanism.
