Location-based authentication protocol for first cognitive radio networking standard

  • Authors:
  • Hyun Sung Kim

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Engineering, Kyungil University, Kyungbuk 712-701, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The developing IEEE 802.22 standard will allow broadband access to be provided in sparsely populated areas by using cognitive radio techniques with operations on a non-interfering basis over television broadcast bands. Such non-interfering basis operation will increase the efficiency of utilisation of that spectrum, and provide large economic and societal benefits. However, the security mechanisms supported by IEEE 802.22 security sub-layer are insufficient to ensure robust security due to the fact that the designers of the standard attempted to reuse the security sub-layer designed for IEEE 802.16 networks, which does not consider the unique security features from IEEE 802.22 networks. This paper proposes a location-based authentication protocol for IEEE 802.22, which can be integrated with the extensible authentication protocol. The proposed protocol uses location information as a key factor to be authenticated each other. Furthermore, it could provide the privacy and confidentiality.