An pre-authentication protocol with symmetric keys for secure handover in mobile WiMAX networks

• Main Authors: Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc, Ma, Maode
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98542; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13428
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Mobile users expect quick and secured handovers to achieve seamless service connection. However, long delay due to the time-consuming authentication procedure is a well-known bottleneck of the mobile WiMAX handover schemes. In this paper, a pre-authentication based handover scheme using symmetric ke...