Design of an Anonymity-Preserving Group Formation Based Authentication Protocol in Global Mobility Networks

Remote user authentication without compromising user anonymity is an emerging area in the last few years. In this paper, we propose a new anonymity preserving mobile user authentication scheme for the global mobility networks (GLOMONETs). We also propose a new anonymity preserving group formation phase for roaming services in GLOMONETs that meets the extended anonymity requirement without compromising any standard security requirements. We provide the security analysis using the widely-accepted Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic and informal analysis for the proposed scheme to show that it is secure against possible well-known attacks, such as replay, man-in-the-middle, impersonation, privileged-insider, stolen smart card, ephemeral secret leakage, and password guessing attacks. In addition, the formal security verification with the help of the broadly accepted automated validation of internet security protocols and applications software simulation tool is tested on the proposed scheme and the simulation results confirm that the proposed scheme is safe. Moreover, the comparative study of the proposed scheme with other relevant schemes reveals that it performs well as compared to other techniques.