Attribute-Based Anonymous Handover Authentication Protocol for Wireless Networks

Abstract

Mobile wireless networks are widely used in our daily lives. Seamless handover occurs frequently and how to guarantee security and efficiency during handover procedure is a major challenge. A handover authentication protocol with nice properties can achieve goals. Protocols proposed in recent years more or less have some security vulnerability. In this paper, we outline security requirements for handover authentication protocols and then propose an anonymous protocol based on a new attribute-based signature scheme. The proposed protocol realizes conditional privacy preserving, user revocation, and session key update as well as mutual authentication and anonymity. Besides, it achieves fine-grained access control due to attributes representing real identity.What is more, experiment shows the proposed protocol has a superior performance.

Is 5G Handover Secure and Private? A Survey

“…This feature makes it appropriate to be applied in anonymous authentication. Zeng et al [109] proposed an ABSbased anonymous handover scheme. However, its computation overhead is too heavy to be applied in practice.…”

“…2) Signature-based Methods: AAnother classic method to preserve user identity privacy is applying cryptography, especially some digital signatures, e.g., group signature and proxy signature could achieve authentication with some special anonymous features [109], [112].…”

“…In [109], the authors designed a lightweight ABS-based handover scheme. On one hand, MEs authenticate APs based on a challenge-response pair, message, and normal signature, i.e., Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm.…”

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