SEAI: Secrecy and Efficiency Aware Inter-gNB Handover Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol in 5G Communication Network

Abstract

Recently, the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has initiated to work in the Fifth Generation (5G) network to fulfill the security characteristics of IoT-based services. 3GPP has proposed the 5G handover key structure and framework in a recently published technical report. In this paper, we evaluate the handover authentication methodologies available in the literature and identify the security vulnerabilities such as violation of global base-station, failure of key forward/backward secrecy, de-synchronization attack, and huge network congestion. Also, these protocols suffer from high bandwidth consumption that doesn't suitable for energy efficient mobile devices in 5G network. To overcome these concerns, we introduce Secrecy and Efficiency Aware Inter-gNB (SEAI) handover Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) protocol. The formal security proof of the protocol is carried out by random oracle model to achieve the session key secrecy, confidentiality, and integrity. For the protocol correctness and achieve the mutual authentication property, simulation is performed using the AVISPA tool. Also, the informal security evaluation represents that the protocol defeats all

A Novel Authentication Protocol for 5G gNodeBs in Service Migration Scenarios of MEC

“…This section presents the security features verification as mentioned in II-C. We conduct the informal as well as the formal (Syther and GNY logic) security verification to show the proposed protocol's robustness against the identified attacks. The research carried out in [28], [29] shows that [1] is vulnerable to various attacks such as confidentiality and MiTM. [1], [30] shows that [31] does not offer the perfect forward secrecy, no formal verification, and confidentiality.…”