With increased use of mobile phones that support mobile commerce, there is a need to examine the authentication of users. The password-based authentication techniques are not reliable with many passwords being too simple. A biometric authentication system is becoming more commonplace and is widely used in security fields because of its special stability and uniqueness. Within this context, the researcher has developed a fuzzy logic based multi-modal biometric authentication system to verify the identity of a mobile phone user. The research presented in this thesis involves three parts of work. Firstly, a model to support the authentication of mobile commerce has been proposed. Within this model, a number of different authentication levels have been defined in the system which sought to achieve the balance between usability and security. Secondly, the researcher has developed a multi-modal biometric authentication system which involves typing behaviour recognition, face recognition and speaker recognition techniques to establish the identity of the user on the mobile phone. However, there are some issues with deterministic biometric authentication systems. Because of this, a fuzzy logic model which can determine the transaction risk in m-commerce and the recognition result from biometric authentication engine has been built. In the experimental stage, the researcher simulates a mobile commerce environment. At one extreme, users will just want to obtain the item and not enter any identity. They are prepared to accept the low level of risk when the transaction is of low value. On the other extreme for a high value transaction users will accept multiple levels of security and would not want the transaction to go through without any checking. The experimental results showed that the fuzzy logic based multi-modal authentication system can achieve a low equal error rate (EER) of 0.63%, and by using the fuzzy logic model, it can effectively reduce the false rejection rate (FRR). There is also a reduction in the environmental influence in the fuzzy logic based biometric authentication. There are three contributions of the thesis: firstly, this research has proposed a model to support the authentication in mobile commerce. Secondly, a multi-modal biometric authentication system was developed. Another major contribution is the development of a fuzzy logic based multi-modal biometric authentication system which is able to overcome the issues of deterministic biometric systems. Overall, the results gained in this thesis prove that using the multi-modal biometric authentication system, itis possible to establish the identity of the user on a mobile phone. The fuzzy logic based authentication model can make the multi-modal biometric system more accurate, and also reduce the influence of external environmental factors. A holistic interpretation of the research indicated that the mobile security and smart system can help mobile commerce become more secure and more flexible in future.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:704556 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Huang, Xuan |
| Contributors | Lund, Geoffrey |
| Publisher | Abertay University |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/ce2dec7b-fdcf-496e-81c4-fb98d0033c78 |
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