The key management mechanism in the handover, performances related to an advanced mobile network

Author

Barba, A. ; Melus, J.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Math. & Telematics, Polytechnic Univ. of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

1995

fDate

3-7 Jul 1995

Firstpage

411

Lastpage

415

Abstract

Mobile communication systems with increasing complexity have been developed, introducing the specification of mobile terminal networks and personal telephony services within a world environment (for instance, the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) according to the ETSI or the Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication System (FPLMTS) according to the ITU-T). The article describes the key management mechanism that has to be implemented over the mobility procedure, called handover, in order to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of services in the transmission of control/user information over the radiolink in the macrocells environment. The successful integration of these security services in the handover procedure will be determined by the selected protocol which permits early execution of key management in every macrocell in which the mobile terminal is roaming

Keywords

cellular radio; personal communication networks; protocols; radio links; radio networks; security of data; telecommunication network management; telephony; ETSI; FPLMTS; Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication System; ITU-T; UMTS; Universal Mobile Telecommunication System; control/user information transmission; handover; key management mechanism; macrocells environment; mobile communication systems; mobile network performance; mobile terminal networks; mobility procedure; personal telephony services; protocol; radiolink; roaming; security services; service confidentiality; service integrity; 3G mobile communication; Environmental management; Information security; Macrocell networks; Mobile communication; Radio control; Radio spectrum management; Telecommunication control; Telecommunication standards; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 1995. Theme: Electrotechnology 2000: Communications and Networks. [in conjunction with the] International Conference on Information Engineering., Proceedings of IEEE Singapore International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2579-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICON.1995.526319

Filename

526319