An Efficient Authentication Protocol for 5G Heterogeneous Networks

Idrissi, Younes El Hajjaji El; Zahid, Noureddine; Jedra, Mohamed

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68179-5_43

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“…5G AKA protocol enhances the AKA protocol of 4G LTE [14] [15] by providing the next party and channel with proof of successful authentication of the UE from the visited network [16]. Idrissi et al [17] proposed enhancement of AKA protocol in order to meet the requirements of authentication and authorization in 5G networks by using a new key framework, which not only improved performance, but also enabled fast re-authentication during handover. Basin et al [18] analyzed the 5G AKA algorithms and demonstrated that the protocol failed in meeting several security goals, which were explicitly required, and then made explicit recommendations for the attacks and weaknesses with finding.…”

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Dependability Analysis of 5G-AKA Authentication Service From Server and User Perspectives

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The fifth generation (5G) technology offers a set of security services in order to provide secure communication to a large number of various devices. 5G Authentication and Key Agreement (5G-AKA) authentication service acts as the first step of securing the 5G network communication. This paper aims to quantitatively analyze the dependability of 5G-AKA authentication service. We develop the continuoustime Markov chain (CTMC) models to capture the operational details of the 5G-AKA authentication services when facing the service failure. We also derive formulas for calculating metrics of interest, including Defects Per Million (DPM), authentication service's first restoration time from failure and total cost of ownership (TCO). Extensive numerical analysis is applied to investigate the impact of parameters on the evaluation metrics. INDEX TERMS 5G-AKA protocol, availability, defects per million, first restoration time, total cost of ownership.

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“…The mean number n ba22 of authentication request loss due to the SEAF entity failure is computed in Eq. (17).…”

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Dependability Analysis of 5G-AKA Authentication Service From Server and User Perspectives

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“…The successful authentication process can ensure that the access to the network is limited to legitimate users only [3]. In recent years, various authentication protocols were proposed [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] based on different cryptographic mechanisms. The schemes [15][16][17][18] are based on lightweight symmetric key primitives, as per the criteria laid down by Wang and Wang [21], the symmetric key mechanisms cannot provide privacy except for keeping a very large number of pseudo identities in smart-card with low memory or getting dynamic identity from home network at each login request.…”

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“…The schemes [4][5][6][7][12][13][14] based on bilinear pairing/modular exponentiation operations consume much more computation and in turn drains more battery power of already limited power wireless/mobile devices. Some of such schemes [8][9][10][11] are based on public but still low resource sucker Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC).…”

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A Privacy Preserving Authentication Scheme for Roaming in IoT-Based Wireless Mobile Networks

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The roaming service enables a remote user to get desired services, while roaming in a foreign network through the help of his home network. The authentication is a pre-requisite for secure communication between a foreign network and the roaming user, which enables the user to share a secret key with foreign network for subsequent private communication of data. Sharing a secret key is a tedious task due to underneath open and insecure channel. Recently, a number of such schemes have been proposed to provide authentication between roaming user and the foreign networks. Very recently, Lu et al. claimed that the seminal Gopi-Hwang scheme fails to resist a session-specific temporary information leakage attack. Lu et al. then proposed an improved scheme based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) for roaming user. However, contrary to their claim, the paper provides an in-depth cryptanalysis of Lu et al.’s scheme to show the weaknesses of their scheme against Stolen Verifier and Traceability attacks. Moreover, the analysis also affirms that the scheme of Lu et al. entails incorrect login and authentication phases and is prone to scalability issues. An improved scheme is then proposed. The scheme not only overcomes the weaknesses Lu et al.’s scheme but also incurs low computation time. The security of the scheme is analyzed through formal and informal methods; moreover, the automated tool ProVerif also verifies the security features claimed by the proposed scheme.

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“…al. [46] proposed an efficient authentication protocol for the 5G heterogeneous network. In the proposal, the existing EAP-AKA protocol is improved by adding Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH).…”

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Design of access authentication schemes in 5G wireless networks

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The futuristic 5G network is designed to accommodate the increasing number of connected devices with higher speed, lower latency, and better security. To achieve these goals, two major strategies have been proposed recently: First, building the cellular network with many tiny base stations, 5G reduces the wireless transmission delays and improves spectral efficacy. Second, by allowing device-to-device (D2D) communication in the cellular network, it offloads the heavy network traffic among mobile devices in a distributed manner. However, due to the wireless nature of 5G communication, there will be many security challenges such as mutual authentication, device anonymity, end-to-end data secrecy, free-riding attack prevention, and so on. Although the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has recently standardized the 5G-AKA protocol for mutually authenticating user equipment (UE), base stations, and the core network, we found that there are still some security issues yet to resolve in the protocol. Furthermore, 3GPP has not standardized the authentication protocol for 5G-D2D communication, making D2D communication remain vulnerable in the 5G networks. In view of these issues, there is a need to develop authentication protocols that address all these security requirements in the 5G and 5G-D2D networks. The designed protocols should be computationally lightweight, such that all mobile devices including low-end smartphones and 5G-IoT connected devices can also enjoy 5G and 5G-D2D safely.To fill these research gaps, in this thesis, we first provide the background and a comprehensive literature survey to the security in 3GPP 5G and 5G-D2D network. We list out the security architecture of the 5G Core network and 5G D2D network, define their security requirements based on the current architecture, and then discuss the existing solutions by evaluating both their advantages and shortcomings. Next, we propose two security schemes, namely the Secure Blockchain-based Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme (5GSBA), and the Lightweight Traceable D2D authentication and Key Agreement Scheme (LT-AKA). 5GSBA aims to improve security in 5G, and LT-AKA aims to improve 5G-D2D.After that, for each proposal, we evaluate their security and logical correctness using formal verification tools. Performance evaluations for each scheme also show that the proposed schemes are computationally and spatially efficient while maintaining a high level of security.

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An Efficient Authentication Protocol for 5G Heterogeneous Networks

Cited by 9 publications

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Dependability Analysis of 5G-AKA Authentication Service From Server and User Perspectives

Dependability Analysis of 5G-AKA Authentication Service From Server and User Perspectives

A Privacy Preserving Authentication Scheme for Roaming in IoT-Based Wireless Mobile Networks

Design of access authentication schemes in 5G wireless networks

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