Paper Info
Title
A Survey of Android Mobile Phone Authentication Schemes
Abstract
The Android operating system is the most popular mobile operating system resulting in a great number of applications being developed for the platform. This makes them vulnerable to security threats such as social engineering, shoulder surfing and Malware. Therefore, Android devices require a secure authentication scheme in order to control access to the device. This paper briefly discusses the mobile security threats, the authentication protocols and Android Security. Then the paper presents an analysis of some of the authentication schemes that are used in mobile devices and some of the threats and technical issues faced. Authentication schemes discussed include password/pin, pattern based authentication, fingerprint recognition, facial recognition, vocal recognition and iris based authentication. In discussing the various authentication methods, it was observed that while biometric based authentication schemes offered the greatest level of security, there was always a trade-off between computational complexity and ease of use/implementation/cost that ensured that more traditional authentication schemes, while not as secure as biometric schemes, are still widely used in mobile devices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/s11036-018-1099-7
Mobile Networks and Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Authentication schemes, Mobile devices, Mobile security, Biometric recognition
Journal
26
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1572-8153
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
20
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
D Kunda1515.25
Mumbi Chishimba200.68