Secure handoff protocol in 3GPP LTE networks

Author

Bouabidi, I.E. ; Daly, Ikbel ; Zarai, Faouzi

Author_Institution

LETI Lab., Univ. of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

fYear

2012

fDate

March 29 2012-April 1 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

To provide secure 3GPP LTE-WLAN interworking, Extensible Authentication Protocol-Authentication and Key Agreement (EAP-AKA) is used. However, EAP-AKA has several vulnerabilities such as disclosure of user identity, man-in-the-middle attack, Sequence Number (SQN) synchronization, and additional bandwidth consumption. Therefore, in this paper, we propose new re-authentication protocol for wireless 3GPP LTE. The proposed protocol guarantees stronger security, mutual authentication, and resistance against many attacks. The suggested solution proves its effectiveness following the studies of simulation which carried out according to different criteria handoff latency, loss and blocking rate.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; cryptographic protocols; mobility management (mobile radio); synchronisation; telecommunication security; 3GPP LTE-WLAN interworking; EAP-AKA; SQN synchronization; bandwidth consumption; blocking rate; extensible authentication protocol-authentication; handoff latency; handoff protocol security; man-in-the-middle attack; mutual authentication; reauthentication protocol; sequence number synchronization; user identification; wireless 3GPP LTE; Authentication; Mobile communication; Protocols; Servers; Vectors; Wireless LAN; 3GPP LTE; Authentication; Handoff; Handoff Latency; Quality of Service; Security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Networking (ComNet), 2012 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hammamet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1007-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-1006-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ComNet.2012.6217746

Filename

6217746