Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4
SAC '01 Revised Papers from the 8th Annual International Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography
Pre-Authenticated Fast Handoff in a Public Wireless LAN Based on IEEE 802.1x Model
PWC '02 Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/WG6.8 Working Conference on Personal Wireless Communications
Proactive key distribution using neighbor graphs
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Mutual authentication in self-organized VANETs
Computer Standards & Interfaces
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With the growing popularity of vehicle-based mobile devices, vehicular networks are becoming an essential part of wireless heterogeneous networks. Therefore, vehicular networks have been widely studied in recent years. Because of limited transmission range of wireless antennas, mobile vehicles should also switch their access points to maintain the connections as conventional mobile nodes. Considering the inherent characteristics of vehicular networks such as dynamic topology and high speed, the question of how to implement handoff protocol under real-time scenarios is very important. IEEE 802.11p protocol is designed for vehicular networks for the long distance transmission. To reduce handoff latency for 802.11p protocol, the authentication phase is waived during the handoff. However, security is also very important for wireless communications, and authentication can forbid access from malicious nodes and prevent wireless communications from potential attacks. Thus, in this paper, a lightweight authentication scheme is introduced to balance the security requirements and the handoff performance for 802.11p vehicular networks. In our scheme, the access points are divided into different trust groups, and the authentication process is completed in a group-based method. Once a vehicle is authenticated by an access point group, during the handoff within the same group, few extra authentication operations are needed. As a result, there is no extra overhead introduced to the authentication servers. Simulation results demonstrate that our authentication scheme only introduces small handoff latency and it is ideal for vehicular networks.