Title : 
A Light-Size AKA Mechanism for Optimal Distributed AAA authorization Architecture
         
        
            Author : 
Ma, Wenjing ; Song, Mei
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Personal Commun. Networks Comput. Aided Design, Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
According to the different identities of end users and attributes and roles that they have been granted, this paper presents an optimal distributed AAA authorization architecture to assign them different network resources or services. To improve the performance, this paper thus gives a detailed analysis about its security issues and proposes a light-size key agreement mechanism, including three kinds of keys in different domains and anonymous identity verification to ensure communication security between Pac and NAS in wireless network. Final tests prove the feasibility of optimal authorization mechanism and good performance of this light-size key agreement mechanism.
         
        
            Keywords : 
authorisation; message authentication; mobile computing; radio networks; telecommunication security; NAS; Pac; communication security; light-size AKA mechanism; light-size key agreement mechanism; optimal distributed AAA authorization architecture; Authentication; Authorization; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Network servers; Personal communication networks; Telecommunication computing; Testing; Wireless networks;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2010-Spring), 2010 IEEE 71st
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Taipei
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2518-1
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
1550-2252
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/VETECS.2010.5493668