Authenticating Devices in Ubiquitous Computing Environment

The deficient of a good authentication protocol in a ubiquitous application environment has made it a good target for adversaries. As a result, all the devices which are participating in such environment are said to be exposed to attacks such as identity impostor, man-in-the-middle attacks and also unauthorized attacks. Thus, this has created skeptical among the users and has resulted them of keeping their distance from such applications. For this reason, in this paper, we are proposing a new authentication protocol to be used in such environment. Unlike other authentication protocols which can be adopted to be used in such environment, our proposed protocol could avoid a single point of failures, implements trust level in granting access and also promotes decentralization. It is hoped that the proposed authentication protocol can reduce or eliminate the problems