Distributed authentication protocol for the security of binding updates in mobile IPv6

  • Authors:
  • Andrew Georgiades;Yuan Luo;Aboubaker Lasebae;Richard Comley

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing Science, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom;Department of Computing Science, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom;Department of Computing Science, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom;Department of Computing Science, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • ICCOM'05 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Communications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Improvements have been seen with a jump from 2G to 3G in terms of security. Yet security issues persist and will continue to plague mobile communications into the leap to 4G if not addressed. 4G will use an architecture known as mobile IP. One particular security issue involves the route optimisation technique, which deals with binding updates. This paper introduces a distributed authentication protocol. It attempts to solve the security vulnerabilities of binding updates and at the same time over come the short falls of other security solutions by using currently existing technology without introducing any new hardware. The introduction of distributed authentication is aimed at alleviating mobile devices from processor intensive calculations while maintaining a high level of security.