Secured macro/micro-mobility protocol for multi-hop cellular IP

  • Authors:
  • Bin Xie;Anup Kumar;Dharma P. Agrawal;S. Srinivasan

  • Affiliations:
  • Mobile Information Network and Distributed Systems (MINDS) Lab, Department of CECS, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, United States;Mobile Information Network and Distributed Systems (MINDS) Lab, Department of CECS, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, United States;OBR Center for Distributed and Mobile Computing, Department of ECECS, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221, United States;Computer Information Systems Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, United States

  • Venue:
  • Pervasive and Mobile Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A Multi-hop Cellular IP (MCIP) network differentiates global and local domains in terms of macro/micro-mobility in heterogeneous multi-hop communication. However, a MCIP network is vulnerable to various attacks and compromises during macro/micro-mobility processes in an adversarial environment. Existing MCIP protocol does not provide macro/micro-mobility security protection for mobile stations. In this paper, we introduce and evaluate a secure macro/micro-mobility protocol (SM^3P). In the proposed SM^3P, mobile IP security has been extended for supporting macro-mobility across local domains through the process of multi-hop registration and authentication. In a MCIP local domain, a certificate-based authentication achieves the effective routing and micro-mobility protection from a range of potential security threats. Our evaluation and simulation demonstrates the effectiveness of the SM^3P.