Abstract—Authentication of mobile subscriber is a challenge of future researchers due to increasing security threats and attacks with the enhanced population of wireless traffic. 3G mobile communication system has been developed to speed up the data communication. In general the authentication technique in 2G mobile communication is solely dependent on checking the authenticity of MS (Mobile Station or Subscriber) by challenge/response mechanism. Here authenticity is one-way for which MSC (Mobile or Main Switching Center) checks the validity of MS. 3G mobile communication works on two different switching techniques. One is circuit switching for voice and low speed data communications. The other one is packet switching mainly for data communication, but can afford voice communication like VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol), video telephony, multimedia service etc. Generally high speed data communication is established by packet switching process through PDSN (Packet Data Serving Node) servers. In circuit switching (3G network) authentication is mutual where both MS and MSC or network authenticate each other, but in packet switching only network (servers in PDSN) examines the authenticity of MS. In this paper, we enlighten different new approaches that can be effectively used as an authentication tool in 3G mobile communications.
Index Terms—Authenticity of Mobile Station or Subscriber, Challenge/Response Mechanism, Circuit Switching, Identifier, Packet Switching, PDSN, Password.
Chandan Koner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bengal Institute of Technology and Management, Santiniketan, P.O. Doranda, West Bengal, Pin-731236, India. He is pursuing PhD course. He is member of IACSIT and IAENG (phone: +91-9434535556).
Pijush Kanti Bhattacharjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bengal Institute of Technology and Management, Santiniketan, P.O. Doranda, West Bengal, Pin-731236, India. He was an Ex Asssitant Director in the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India, India. He has possessed vast working experience in the field of Telecommunications including Mobile Communications, Image Processing, VLSI etc during last 29 years. (phone: +91-33-25954148, +91-9432166768; fax: +91-3463-271354; ).
Chandan Tilak Bhunia is a Director, Bengal Institute of Technology and Management, Santiniketan, P.O. Doranda, West Bengal, Pin-731236, India. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, FIE (I) and FIETE.(phone: +91-9434033157).
Ujjwal Maulik is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and FIE(I). (phone: +91-33-24131766).
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Cite: C. Koner, P. K. Bhattacharjee, C. T. Bhunia, and U Maulik , "A Novel Approach for Authentication Technique in Mobile Communications,"
International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 216-221, 2009.
