Key Management in Mobile WiMAX Networks

Gilanian-Sadeghi, Mohammad-Mehdi; Ali, Borhanuddin Mohd; Manan, Jamalul-lail Ab

doi:10.5772/56154

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“…First, the MS sends the (PKM-REQ) with his: X.509 certificate, a depiction of the supported cryptographic algorithms. Then the BS approves the identity of the MS, decides the encryption algorithm used, and sends an authentication response (PKM-RSP) that contains the (AK) key material to enable the encryption of data [11].…”

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An Efficient and Secure Initial Network Entry Protocol (ESINEP) for IEEE 802.16

Kahya

Ghoualmi

2023

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The most important phase to established communication between mobile station and base station is the Initial Network Entry Process. This process has vulnerabilities against malicious attacks that affect communication efficiency. Although several Initial Network Entry protocols are proposed, however most of them suffer from several weaknesses like vulnerabilities to varied attacks, low communication efficiency with using a high complexity of protocol structure. In order to overcome these shortcomings, we propose astrong mechanism and new method of authentication scheme using the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm. The proposed security protocol, named ESINEP “An Efficient and Secure Initial Network Entry Protocol”, used to share a secure key between mobile station and base station to authenticate each other and to secure communication. While designing ESINEP our main aims are assure: message integrity, source authentication, low communication cost, the fast verification and efficient exchange of messages. Finally, a formal security verification using Scyther tools concludes that ESINEP is secure against the existing attacks.

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Section: A-architecture Of the Initial Network Entrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It supports Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) [10]. Second, the MAC layer is subdivided into three sub-layers: -The service specific Convergence Sub-layer, it receives packets from higher layers and then performs a set of functions [11]:…”

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An Efficient and Secure Initial Network Entry Protocol (ESINEP) for IEEE 802.16

Kahya

Ghoualmi

2023

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A Novel Energy Efficient Key Distribution Scheme for Mobile WiMAX Networks

Gilanian-Sadeghi

Ali

Manan

2016

Wireless Pers Commun

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In Mobile WiMAX, a Base Station (BS) delivers security keys to Mobile Stations (MSs) through a key distribution scheme to guarantee security and access control. The MSs need to perform ciphering operations to access the keys upon rekeying process. In this way, the MSs consume energy to receive and decrypt the keys for further communication with a BS, while the BS consumes energy to encrypt and transmit the keys. In current key distribution schemes, any member join or leave event results in a key updating, and the duration of the MSs stay in the cell is not important, but on average low speed MSs tend to stay longer in the cell, while fast MSs will leave the cell faster. This paper proposes an Efficient Key Distribution scheme to decrease the number of exchanged keys which results in minimizing energy consumption of the network by grouping the MSs into the different subgroups based on their speeds using complete binary tree. Analysis shows that the proposed scheme reduces energy consumption during key updating process.

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