Authentication Schemes Based on the EAP-SIM Mechanism in GSM-WLAN Heterogeneous Mobile Networks

Author

Lin, Shen-Ho ; Chiu, Jung-Hui ; Shen, Sung-Shiou

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Chang Gung Univ., Taoyuan, Taiwan

fYear

2009

fDate

25-27 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

2089

Lastpage

2094

Abstract

In the architecture of GSM-WLAN interworking, there are drawbacks related to authentication efficiency for processing loads in the RADIUS server. Therefore, this paper presents two authentication schemes, based on the EAP-SIM mechanism, to improve the authentication efficiency by balancing the processing loads among the RADIUS server and APs. The performance evaluation on the average authentication session time and the processing time for the conventional EAP-SIM authentication schemes and the proposed authentication schemes shows the efficiency improvement of the proposed schemes. It can save about 19% authentication processing time for the proposed full authentication, and about 75% authentication processing time for the proposed iterative fast authentication scheme.

Keywords

authorisation; cellular radio; cryptography; mobile communication; network servers; telecommunication security; wireless LAN; EAP-SIM mechanism; GSM-WLAN; RADIUS server; heterogeneous mobile networks; iterative fast authentication scheme; 3G mobile communication; Authentication; Data communication; Data security; GSM; Network servers; Radio access networks; WiMAX; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks; Access Point; Authentication; EAP-SIM; GSM-WLAN interworking; RADIUS Server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INC, IMS and IDC, 2009. NCM '09. Fifth International Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5209-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3769-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCM.2009.259

Filename

5331838