Secure and efficient uniform handover scheme for LTE-A networks

Haddad, Zaher; Mahmoud, Mohamed; Saroit, Imane Aly; Taha, Sanaa

doi:10.1109/wcnc.2016.7564916

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“…The system is used to enable any two entities in the 5G network to verify their public keys which is an essential step for mutually authenticating each other without the need for involving HN [18]. As will be explained in the next section, our proposals are efficient and scalable because the HN is not involved due to the use of blockchain [19].…”

Section: ) When the Target Ap Receives The Handover Response Itmentioning

confidence: 99%

Secure and Efficient AKA Scheme and Uniform Handover Protocol for 5G Network Using Blockchain

Haddad

Baza

Mahmoud

et al. 2021

IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.

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The fifth generation (5G) cellular network provides users with high-quality services due to its high transmission rate and low latency. It will support Internet of Things (IoT) devices and enable new applications in health, banking, education, etc. Security is essential in this network because vulnerabilities may be exploited to disrupt these applications which may directly impact our life. Authentication and key agreement (AKA) and handover (HO) are usually the target of cyberattacks in any cellular network. On the other hand, blockchain is a peer-to-peer network that aims to maintain an immutable and secure ledger. This new technology will be used widely to secure many applications. This paper aims to develop an efficient and secure AKA scheme and uniform handover protocol for 5G network using blockchain. The home network (HN) is not involved in the AKA scheme and HO protocol to protect the HN from attacks, such as denial of service (DoS) attacks, and also lower the communication and computation overhead. Moreover, our HO protocol is uniform in the sense that it can be used for all HO scenarios. The protocol is also efficient because it requires exchanging a few amount of data. It can also achieve forward/backward secrecy. Furthermore, the blockchain is used to verify the public keys of the network nodes which is necessary to secure our AKA scheme and HO protocol. It also records the locations of the users which is necessary for the functionality of the network. Our evaluations demonstrate that the proposed HO protocol is secure, uniform, and can achieve the forward/backward secrecy. Furthermore, our AKA scheme requires lower computation and computation overhead comparing to the existing schemes, and preserves the energy of the limited-energy mobile devices.

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Section: ) When the Target Ap Receives The Handover Response Itmentioning

confidence: 99%

Secure and Efficient AKA Scheme and Uniform Handover Protocol for 5G Network Using Blockchain

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Baza

Mahmoud

et al. 2021

IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.

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“…Encryption based handovers help to protect the user data as well as the control information which is passed between the entities laying off from a zone of one entity and moving into the zone of other entity [146], [297], [298]. • Uniform: Such types of handovers authentication are more prominent in LTE and LTE-A networks as these can be used for all types of networks [299], [300]. This is one of the most suitable handovers procedures for smart M-IoT networks.…”

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Security, Privacy and Trust for Smart Mobile- Internet of Things (M-IoT): A Survey

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With an enormous range of applications, the Internet of Things (IoT) has magnetized industries and academicians from everywhere. IoT facilitates operations through ubiquitous connectivity by providing Internet access to all the devices with computing capabilities. With the evolution of wireless infrastructure, the focus from simple IoT has been shifted to smart, connected and mobile IoT (M-IoT) devices and platforms, which can enable low-complexity, low-cost and efficient computing through sensors, machines, and even crowdsourcing. All these devices can be grouped under a common term of M-IoT. Even though the positive impact on applications has been tremendous, security, privacy and trust are still the major concerns for such networks and insufficient enforcement of these requirements introduces non-negligible threats to M-IoT devices and platforms. Thus, it is important to understand the range of solutions which are available for providing a secure, privacy-compliant, and trustworthy mechanism for M-IoT. There is no direct survey available, which focuses on security, privacy, trust, secure protocols, physical layer security and handover protections in M-IoT. This paper covers such requisites and presents comparisons of statethe-art solutions for IoT which are applicable to security, privacy, and trust in smart and connected M-IoT networks. Apart from these, various challenges, applications, advantages, technologies, standards, open issues, and roadmap for security, privacy and trust are also discussed in this paper.

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“…However, even though this scheme simplified the process of authentication, it would cost much since more technologies related to cryptology are concerned with this process. Meanwhile, in order to erase the existence of AAA servers in the process of authentication, the scheme designed by Cai et al [21] and Haddad et al [22] was proposed based on the security context. By adopting this scheme, a predetermined alternative target AP should be selected, and authentication information should be sent to the target AP.…”

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Fast and Universal Inter-Slice Handover Authentication with Privacy Protection in 5G Network

Ren

Jiang

et al. 2021

Security and Communication Networks

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In a 5G network-sliced environment, mobility management introduces a new form of handover called inter-slice handover among network slices. Users can change their slices as their preferences or requirements vary over time. However, existing handover-authentication mechanisms cannot support inter-slice handover because of the fine-grained demand among network slice services, which could cause challenging issues, such as the compromise of service quality, anonymity, and universality. In this paper, we address these issues by introducing a fast and universal inter-slice (FUIS) handover authentication framework based on blockchain, chameleon hash, and ring signature. To address these issues, we introduce an anonymous service-oriented authentication protocol with a key agreement for inter-slice handover by constructing an anonymous ticket with the trapdoor collision property of chameleon hash functions. In order to reduce the computation overhead of the user side in the process of authentication, a privacy-preserving ticket validation with a ring signature is designed to finish in the consensus phase of the blockchain in advance. Thanks to the edge computing capabilities in 5G, distributed edge nodes help to store the anonymous ticket information, which guarantees that the legal users can finish authentication swiftly during handover. Our scheme's performance is evaluated through simulation experiments to testify the efficiency and feasibility in a 5G network-sliced environment. The results show that compared to other authentication schemes of the same type, the overall inter-slice handover delay has been reduced by 97.94%.

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Secure and efficient uniform handover scheme for LTE-A networks

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

Secure and Efficient AKA Scheme and Uniform Handover Protocol for 5G Network Using Blockchain

Secure and Efficient AKA Scheme and Uniform Handover Protocol for 5G Network Using Blockchain

Security, Privacy and Trust for Smart Mobile- Internet of Things (M-IoT): A Survey

Fast and Universal Inter-Slice Handover Authentication with Privacy Protection in 5G Network

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