Title :
Fast and simple NEMO authentication via random number
Author :
Tan, Tat Kin ; Samsudin, Azman
Author_Institution :
Univ. Sains Malaysia, Penang
Abstract :
Network Mobility (NEMO), derived from Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (MIPv6) technology, has been evolving and expanding in very rapidity manner across very short period of time. In MIPv6 technology, the Access Router (AR) plays important roles such as provide sessions connectivity and safe-guarding communications protocol. Whereas in NEMO, the routers in the communication chains are essentially the moving targets and hence the Mobile Router (MR). The MR too, inherits the basic functionalities of AR. In the basic MIPv6 and NEMO modus operandi, when the Mobile Network Notes (MNN) roamed away from home link and attached to some other foreign link, the MNNs are also addressable via a secondary address named as Care-of Address (CoA). The MNN essentially registered its primary CoA to the router on its own home link and thus registering the router to be its Home Agent (HA). These communication sets, and the ingredients of the communication will be managed via Binding Updates (BU) and the Binding Acknowledgement (BAck). Since the NEMO is using MIPv6 as the backbone, NEMO also inevitably inherits many design difficulties and problems that the MIPv6 seen. Such as using the Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) with end-to-end tunneling and using nonce value within the BU to serve as part of the authentication process and many more. In this paper, we illustrate the scenario of authentication problems involving NEMO movements and the flaw in security design. With the aim of succeeding IPSec we then propose a much better solution which is the use of Random Number, coupled with PKI concept.
Keywords :
Internet; message authentication; mobile radio; public key cryptography; routing protocols; telecommunication security; transport protocols; CoA secondary address; Internet Protocol security; MIPv6 technology; NEMO authentication; PKI concept; access router; binding acknowledgement; binding updates; care-of address; communication protocol; end-to-end tunneling; home agent; mobile Internet Protocol version 6; mobile network notes; mobile router; network mobility; random number; session connectivity; Access protocols; Authentication; Bidirectional control; Communication standards; Encapsulation; Internet; Mobile communication; Multi-layer neural network; Security; Telecommunication computing; Acknowledgement (BAck); Binding Updates (BU); Care-of Address (CoA); Home Agent (HA); Mobile Network Notes (MNN); Mobile Router (MR); Network Mobility (NEMO);
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications and Malaysia International Conference on Communications, 2007. ICT-MICC 2007. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Penang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1094-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1094-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICTMICC.2007.4448643