Secure communication in PCS

Author

Xu, Min ; Upadhyaya, Shambhii

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2193

Abstract

We present a new method to provide secure communication in PCS. Our method is based on Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption/decryption implemented on the mobile handset. It is shown that the proposed algorithm yields higher security compared to GSM authentication protocol at the expense of using more computational time at call setup, which is still negligible. However, in long run transmissions, the time taken to transmit data using our approach is less than that using GSM approach. Our approach is simple, easy to implement, and it can be very useful in present and future wireless communications

Keywords

authorisation; cryptography; data communication; personal communication networks; picocellular radio; telecommunication security; DES; Data Encryption Standard; PCS; call setup; data communications; encryption/decryption; long run transmissions; mobile handset; secure communication; wireless communications; Authentication; Communication system security; Data security; GSM; Mobile communication; Personal communication networks; Protocols; Public key; Telephony; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd

Conference_Location

Rhodes

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6728-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2001.945085

Filename

945085