A new signature scheme based on the DSA giving message recovery
CCS '93 Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on Computer and communications security
ICICS '97 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information and Communication Security
Security analysis of a femtocell device
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Security of information and networks
A simple and robust handover authentication between HeNB and eNB in LTE networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Eliminating rouge femtocells based on distance bounding protocol and geographic information
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Demand for the femtocell is largely credited to the surge in a more always best connected communication conscious public. 3GPP define new architecture and security requirement for Release 9 to deal with femtocell, Home eNode B referred as HeNB. In this paper, we analyze the HeNB security with respect to mutual authentication, access control, and secure key agreement. Our analysis pointed out that a number of security vulnerabilities have still not been addressed and solved by 3GPP technical specification. These include eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle attack, compromising subscriber access list, and masquerading as valid HeNB. To the best of our knowledge, any related research studying HeNB security was not published before. Towards this end, this paper proposes an improved authentication and key agreement mechanism for HeNB which adapts proxy-signature and proxy-signed proxy-signature. Through our elaborate analysis, we conclude that the proposed not only prevents the various security threats but also accomplishes minimum distance from user-tolerable authentication delay.