A Fast and Efficient Authentication Protocol for a Seamless Handover between a WLAN and WiBro

Author

Sun-Hee Lim ; Okyeon Yi ; Chang-Hoon Jung ; Ki-Seok Bang

Author_Institution

Center for inf. Security Technol., Korea Univ. Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2007

fDate

7-12 Jan. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

A wireless network has a handover problem between heterogeneous or homogeneous network entitles. We describe in this paper a handover scenario between a WLAN and a WiBro network and propose a fast and efficient authentication scheme for the handover between a WLAN and a WiBro. In the scheme, a Serving Network(SN) plays a key distribution center role so that the Mobile Node (MN) can be quickly associated to a Target Nerwork(TN) before starting a full authentication scheme where a remote Authentication Center (AC) is involved.

Keywords

cryptography; mobile radio; protocols; radio access networks; telecommunication security; wireless LAN; WLAN network; WiBro network; authentication protocol; key distribution; mobile node; remote authentication center; seamless handover; security; serving network; target nerwork; wireless network; Authentication; Communication system security; Costs; Educational institutions; Information security; Mathematics; Tin; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks; Handover; Security; WLAN; WiBro; Wireless Network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems Software and Middleware, 2007. COMSWARE 2007. 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0613-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382495

Filename

4268138