Enhanced EAP-Based Pre-Authentication for Fast and Secure Inter-ASN Handovers in Mobile WiMAX Networks

Author

Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc ; Ma, Maode

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

11

Issue

6

fYear

2012

fDate

6/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2173

Lastpage

2181

Abstract

Mobile WiMAX is yet to meet the expectation from mobile users to provide secured and seamless services. Long delay in the time-consuming authentication procedure is a well-known bottleneck of the IEEE 802.16e handover scheme, causing service disruption when a mobile user moves between base stations. A pre-authentication-based handover scheme for mobile WiMAX networks aims to achieve fast and secure inter-ASN handovers. However, it is shown to be vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) and replay attacks. In this paper, we propose an Enhanced EAP-based pre-authentication (EEP) scheme to overcome the vulnerability of the above-mentioned scheme with much less requirements on the computation and communication resources.

Keywords

WiMax; mobility management (mobile radio); telecommunication security; DoS attack; EEP scheme; IEEE 802.16e handover scheme; base stations; denial-of-service attack; enhanced EAP-based pre-authentication; inter-ASN handover security; mobile WiMAX networks; mobile users; pre-authentication-based handover scheme; replay attack; seamless service; service disruption; time-consuming authentication procedure; Authentication; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Public key; WiMAX; Mobile WiMAX; formal verification; handover; pre-authentication; security;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1276

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TWC.2012.032712.110659

Filename

6177972