A survey of key management for secure group communication
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
On the security of wireless network access with enhancements
WiSe '03 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Wireless security
A man-in-the-middle attack on UMTS
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on Wireless security
Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for UMTS with Low Bandwidth Consumption
AINA '05 Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Volume 1
A new authentication protocol for UMTS mobile networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Group Authentication Protocol for Mobile Networks
WIMOB '07 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications
A cocktail protocol with the Authentication and Key Agreement on the UMTS
Journal of Systems and Software
Security analysis of a cocktail protocol with the authentication and key agreement on the UMTS
IEEE Communications Letters
Group-Based Authentication and Key Agreement
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
A simple and robust handover authentication between HeNB and eNB in LTE networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Security analysis and enhancements of 3GPP authentication and key agreement protocol
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
A survey of security issues in multicast communications
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
New privacy issues in mobile telephony: fix and verification
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Extension of an Efficient 3GPP Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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To support Evolved Packet System (EPS) in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has proposed an authentication and key agreement (AKA) protocol, named EPS-AKA, which has become an emerging standard for fourth-generation (4G) wireless communications. However, due to the requirement of backward compatibility, EPS-AKA inevitably inherits some defects of its predecessor UMTS-AKA protocol that cannot resist several frequent attacks, i.e., redirection attack, man-in-the-middle attack, and DoS attack. Meanwhile, there are additional security issues associated with the EPS-AKA protocol, i.e., the lack of privacy-preservation and key forward/backward secrecy (KFS/KBS). In addition, there are new challenges with the emergence of group-based communication scenarios in authentication. In this paper, we propose a secure and efficient AKA protocol, called SE-AKA, which can fit in with all of the group authentication scenarios in the LTE networks. Specifically, SE-AKA uses Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) to realize KFS/KBS, and it also adopts an asymmetric key cryptosystem to protect users' privacy. For group authentication, it simplifies the whole authentication procedure by computing a group temporary key (GTK). Compared with other authentication protocols, SE-AKA cannot only provide strong security including privacy-preservation and KFS/KBS, but also provide a group authentication mechanism which can effectively authenticate group devices. Extensive security analysis and formal verification by using proverif have shown that the proposed SE-AKA is secure against various malicious attacks. In addition, elaborate performance evaluations in terms of communication, computational and storage overhead also demonstrates that SE-AKA is more efficient than those existing protocols.