A Versatile Roaming Service Framework with Billing Support for WLAN/Cellular Integrated Networks

Minghui Shi; Xuemin (Sherman) Shen; Jon W. Mark; Dongmei Zhao

4th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness

Research Article

A Versatile Roaming Service Framework with Billing Support for WLAN/Cellular Integrated Networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1577222.1577275,
    author={Minghui Shi and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen and Jon W. Mark and Dongmei Zhao},
    title={A Versatile Roaming Service Framework with Billing Support for WLAN/Cellular Integrated Networks},
    proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and  Robustness},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={QSHINE},
    year={2007},
    month={8},
    keywords={Authentication billing agent WLAN/cellular inte-grated service anonymity.},
    doi={10.1145/1577222.1577275}
}

Minghui Shi
Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
Jon W. Mark
Dongmei Zhao
Year: 2007
A Versatile Roaming Service Framework with Billing Support for WLAN/Cellular Integrated Networks
QSHINE
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1577222.1577275

Minghui Shi¹^,*, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen¹^,*, Jon W. Mark¹^,*, Dongmei Zhao²^,*

1: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
2: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

*Contact email: mshi@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca, xshen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca, jwmark@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca, dzhao@mail.ece.mcmaster.ca

Abstract

In this paper, a versatile WLAN/cellular networks integrated roaming service framework with billing support is proposed, which can lift off the requirement of peer-to-peer roaming agreements to provide seam-less user roaming between WLAN hotspots and cellu-lar networks operated by independent wireless net-work service providers. Within the framework, an adaptive authentication and an event-tracking scheme have been developed considering the anonymity of the mobile users and allowing the integrated billing service to be applied to cellular network if it still uses a traditional authentication scheme. Security analysis and overhead evaluation demonstrate that the pro-posed roaming service framework is secure and effi-cient.

Keywords: Authentication billing agent WLAN/cellular inte-grated service anonymity.

Published: 2007-08-17
Publisher: ACM
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1577222.1577275