A WPKI-Based Security Mechanism for IEEE 802.16e

Author

Liu, Fuqiang ; Lu, Lei

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Tongji Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2006

fDate

22-24 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

IEEE 802.16e standard will enhance broadband wireless access solutions by taking advantage of the inherent mobility of wireless media. As the mobile services supported in the standard, new security problems may be coming and becoming a serious obstacle to develop the WMAN (wireless metropolitan access network). In this paper, security principles used in 802.16e is analyzed to find the vulnerabilities and threats to mobile WiMAX. A security mechanism against the threats is proposed based on WPKI (wireless public key infrastructure) technology to solve both security problems and the problems caused by the poor ability of the mobile terminal. By simulating the complete WPKI-based security process, the mechanism is proved to be competent for providing data privacy, integrity and non-repudiation protection between BS (base station) and MS (mobile station)

Keywords

WiMax; mobile radio; public key cryptography; radio access networks; telecommunication security; IEEE 802.16e; WPKI-based security mechanism; broadband wireless access; data privacy; mobile WiMAX; mobile services; mobile terminal; nonrepudiation protection; wireless metropolitan access network; wireless public key infrastructure; Access protocols; Authorization; Base stations; Communication system security; Data privacy; Data security; Information security; Protection; WiMAX; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2006. WiCOM 2006.International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0517-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCOM.2006.298

Filename

4149475