A Fast Handover Authentication Mechanism Based on Ticket for IEEE 802.16m

Author

Fu, Anmin ; Zhang, Yuqing ; Zhu, Zhenchao ; Liu, Xuefeng

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Comput. Networks & Inf. Security of the Minist. of Educ., Xidian Univ., Xi´´an, China

Volume

14

Issue

12

fYear

2010

fDate

12/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1134

Lastpage

1136

Abstract

IEEE 802.16 m is now under consideration by the ITU to become the IMT-Advanced standard. However, handover authentication is a critical issue in this area. In this letter, we propose a fast handover authentication mechanism based on ticket for IEEE 802.16 m. The credential ticket of Mobile Station (MS) is issued by the access Base Station (BS) using a multi-BS group key during the initial authentication. When the MS moves from the service BS to a target BS, it can show its ticket to the target BS and this BS can authenticate the MS without communicating with any other third party (e.g., previous BS and authentication server). Our analysis shows that the proposed scheme meets the security requirements in handover authentication semantics and provides robust efficiency in terms of communication overhead and computational cost.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; WiMax; authorisation; mobility management (mobile radio); telecommunication security; telecommunication standards; telecommunication transmission lines; IEEE 802.16m; IMT-advanced standard; ITU; access base station; authentication server; communication overhead; computational cost; handover authentication semantics; mobile station; security requirements; Authentication; Cryptography; IEEE 802 standards; Mobile communication; Protocols; Servers; EAP; IEEE 802.16m; handover; ticket;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2010.12.100818

Filename

5610981