ABSTRACT
In this paper, a protocol named as Mutual Authentication and Session Key Agreement (MASKA) has been proposed to overcome various network security attacks in the Global Mobility Network (GLOMONET). It is an essential criterion for identifying legitimate mobile users while they roam around from one region to another and make use of the services of different mobile networks. As mobile users avail services in the roaming network, they are prone to face different network security attacks. There are different mobile user authentication protocols already available in the literature on GLOMONET to secure data communication. Several researchers have suggested their protocols to minimize the effect of the attacks. Some of these protocols although resist most of the attacks but fail to overcome insider attack, impersonation attack, stolen smartcard attack and do not provide perfect forward secrecy. Further, Several security issues like mutual authentication, anonymity, resistance from impersonation attacks, the man in middle attacks, replay attacks, etc are taken care of while designing such protocols. In this paper, the Performance analysis of MASKA shows its efficiency concerning different security issues as compared to existing protocols already available in the literature. A trade-off has been made for communicational and computational overheads contrasted with other existing protocols.
