Improved Adaptive Protocol for authentication and key agreement

Author

Shalmany, Nasibeh Alijanpour ; Rahbar, Akbar Ghaffar Pour

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Sahand Univ. of Technol., Tabriz

fYear

2008

fDate

27-28 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We explain the authentication and key agreement protocols for third-generation (3G) wireless communications. This protocol is known as 3GPP-AKA. We show this protocol is vulnerable to false base station attacks, and therefore, it needs synchronization between MS (mobile station) and HN (home network) that increases the complexity of system. Then, we analyze two techniques which are called adaptive protocol for AKA and extension of AKA. Any of these techniques eliminate some of the weaknesses of 3GPP-AKA. We combine these two techniques and propose a new technique, called improved adaptive protocol for AKA (IAP-AKA). We show this technique can be a good successor for 3GPP-AKA by eliminating synchronization, bandwidth wastage, and vulnerability to false base station attacks.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; protocols; telecommunication security; 3G wireless communications; 3GPP-AKA; IAP-AKA; authentication-key agreement protocols; base station attacks; home network; improved adaptive protocol; mobile station; third generation wireless networks; Authentication; Base stations; Counting circuits; Cryptography; GSM; Home automation; Information security; Protocols; Tin; Wireless networks; 3GPP; AKA; authentication; false base station attacks; security; synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications, 2008. IST 2008. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2750-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2751-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISTEL.2008.4651262

Filename

4651262