GIT-CERCS-09-15
Yun Li, Ling Liu,
Mobile Identity Management: Concepts, Issues, and Techniques
This paper takes a systematic approach to examining the basic concepts,
the research issues and the state of art technologies in mobile identity
management. We examine the concept of mobile identity and argue that
mobile identity should be defined by combining mobile device identity
and mobile user identity in a location-aware computing environment. Thus
mobile identity management deals with the management of user identity
and mobile device identity, as well as the management of the linking of
human, devices, and locations in different mobile contexts. Based on
this understanding, we review the state of art research on techniques
for mobile user identity support, techniques for mobile device identity
support, techniques for linking of a human and her mobile devices, and
techniques and issues of linking a mobile device and its location. The
survey ends with a summary and an outlook of the future research and
technology development trends.