ICICS '97 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information and Communication Security
A Hierarchy of Authentication Specifications
CSFW '97 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE workshop on Computer Security Foundations
An empirical analysis of the IEEE 802.11 MAC layer handoff process
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
LTE: the evolution of mobile broadband
IEEE Communications Magazine
Building femtocell more secure with improved proxy signature
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
A handover authentication using credentials based on chameleon hashing
IEEE Communications Letters
Capauth: a capability-based handover scheme
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
LTE key management analysis with session keys context
Computer Communications
Proactive key distribution using neighbor graphs
IEEE Wireless Communications
GHAP: An Efficient Group-based Handover Authentication Mechanism for IEEE 802.16m Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
SE-AKA: A secure and efficient group authentication and key agreement protocol for LTE networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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There are two types of base stations in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless networks, Home eNodeB (HeNB) and eNodeB (eNB). To achieve seamless handovers between the HeNB and the eNB is critical to support mobility in the LTE networks. A handover from an eNB/HeNB to a new eNB/HeNB, suggested by the third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), requires distinct procedures for different mobility scenarios with a complex key management mechanism, which will increase the system complexity. Besides, it cannot achieve backward security in handover procedures. Furthermore, the existing handover schemes for other wireless networks are not suitable for the mobility scenarios in the LTE networks due to their inherent features. In this paper, we propose a fast and secure handover authentication scheme, which is to fit in with all of the mobility scenarios in the LTE networks. Compared with other handover schemes, our scheme cannot only achieve a simple authentication process with desirable efficiency, but also provide several security features including Perfect Forward/Backward Secrecy (PBS/PFS), which has never been achieved by previous works. The experimental results and formal verification by using the AVISPA tool show that the proposed scheme is efficient and secure against various malicious attacks.