Analysis on mobile WiMAX security

Author

Rengaraju, Perumalraja ; Lung, Chung-Horng ; Qu, Yi ; Srinivasan, Anand

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2009

fDate

26-27 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

439

Lastpage

444

Abstract

Security support is mandatory for any communication networks. For wireless systems, security support is even more important to protect the users as well as the network. Since wireless medium is available to all, the attackers can easily access the network and the network becomes more vulnerable for the user and the network service provider. In the existing research, there is lack of integrated presentation of solutions to all the security issues of mobile WiMAX network, which is important for researchers and practitioners. This paper discusses all the security issues in both point-to-multipoint and mesh network and discusses their solutions. In addition, a new recommendation is also proposed for one of the security issues.

Keywords

WiMax; mobile radio; telecommunication security; communication networks; mesh network; mobile WiMAX network; mobile WiMAX security; network service provider; point-to-multipoint network; security support; wireless medium; wireless systems; Access protocols; Authentication; Communication system security; Computer security; Cryptography; Data security; Mesh networks; Portable media players; Public key; WiMAX; Security; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Science and Technology for Humanity (TIC-STH), 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3877-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3878-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TIC-STH.2009.5444459

Filename

5444459