Homomorphic Handover Authentication Technique for Mobile Cloud Computing

Mobile Cloud Computing has brought the IT industry to a new level by providing an innovative technique with the help of which one can access anything, anytime from anywhere. It is an industry buzz word since 2009 and a relatively new concept that combines cloud computing, mobile computing and wireless networking. This technology has uplifted the usability experience of mobile users. Over the past few years with huge increase in number of mobile users the requirement of mobile computing technology i.e. cloud computing in mobile devices has also increased enormously. With the gain of popularity in industry this technology faces many challenges in terms of security, bandwidth, mobility, storage capacity, performance, reliability etc. Amongst all these challenges, security challenges remain the prominent one. Secure and efficient handover of mobile nodes is required when mobile nodes move from one access point to the other. The main objective of this paper is to provide efficient and secure homomorphic handover approach to the mobile nodes in cloud environment. Keywords— Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC), Security, Handover authentication, Efficiency