Research Article
Re-authentication Protocol for Vertical Handoff in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-29479-2_17, author={Ikbel Daly and Faouzi Zarai and Lotfi Kamoun}, title={Re-authentication Protocol for Vertical Handoff in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks}, proceedings={Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems. Third International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2011, Bilbao, Spain, May 9-10, 2011, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MOBILIGHT}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={Re-authentication protocol Heterogeneous Wireless Networks 3GPP LTE Mesh networks Handoff Security}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-29479-2_17} }- Ikbel Daly
Faouzi Zarai
Lotfi Kamoun
Year: 2012
Re-authentication Protocol for Vertical Handoff in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
MOBILIGHT
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29479-2_17
Abstract
The Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (HWN) is a type of framework which includes different varieties of wireless technologies. To ensure a robust management and a reliable behavior of HWN, it is necessary to well manage the interworking between its technologies and in particular to secure interworking and roaming between the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)/Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Wireless Local Mesh Networks. A whole of solutions has been proposed to solve this problem; we quote mainly Extensible Authentication Protocol-Authentication and Key Agreement (EAP-AKA) which still suffers from some vulnerabilities such as, man-in-the-middle attack, Sequence Number (SQN) synchronization, and disclosure of user identity. In this paper, we propose new re-authentication protocol. The suggested solution proves its effectiveness following the studies of simulation which carried out according to different criteria handoff latency, loss and blocking rate.