A Novel Biometric Approach for Authentication In Pervasive Computing Environments

The paradigm of embedding computing devices in our surrounding environment has gained more interest in recent days. Along with contemporary technology comes challenges, the most important being the security and privacy aspect. Keeping the aspect of compactness and memory constraints of pervasive devices in mind, the biometric techniques proposed for identification should be robust and dynamic. In this work, we propose an emerging scheme that is based on few exclusive human traits and characteristics termed as ocular biometrics, promising utmost security and reliability. Complex iris recognition and retinal scanning algorithms have been discussed which promises achievement of accurate results. The performance and vast applications of these algorithms on pervasive computing devices is also addressed.