A universal handover authentication protocol for 5G heterogeneous network
Recent increase in the usage of mobile data and demand for high data rate to support wireless internet and multimedia service have driven the motivation to move into the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication network. It’s believed that the 5G network will adapts heterogeneous network st...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/75999 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Recent increase in the usage of mobile data and demand for high data rate to support
wireless internet and multimedia service have driven the motivation to move into the
fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication network. It’s believed that the 5G
network will adapts heterogeneous network structure, which consists of smaller cells
with different technical specifications and service types. One of the challenges brought
by 5G heterogeneous network is that as cell size becomes smaller, users are expected
to come across the borders of cells of different service more frequently, and handover
process will be intensively involved. However, the existing authentication schemes
either display certain vulnerability against malicious attacks, or suffer from great delay
and computational complexity. Therefore, a fast, secured and reliable handover
authentication protocol address the challenge.
To achieve fast and reliable authentication between different network, we proposed a
universal handover authentication protocol to be used between cellular network and
wireless local area network (WLAN). The proposed protocol adapts directauthentication
method with authentication server integrated with access point. The
proposed protocol is proved to be logical correct with Burrows-Abadi-Needham (BAN)
logic. Formal verification using Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols
and Applications (AVISPA) tool shows that the proposed protocol is secure against
malicious attacks. Simulation result of the proposed protocol shows that compared to
conventional 3G-WLAN integration protocol, the proposed protocol has a better
performance in terms of average delay per authentication under attacks. |
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