Secure universal mobility for wireless Internet

  • Authors:
  • Ashutosh Dutta;Tao Zhang;Sunil Madhani;Kenichi Taniuchi;Kensaku Fujimoto;Yasuhiro Katsube;Yoshihiro Ohba;Henning Schulzrinne

  • Affiliations:
  • Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, NJ;Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, NJ;Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, NJ;Toshiba America Research Inc., Piscataway, NJ;Toshiba America Research Inc., Piscataway, NJ;Toshiba America Research Inc., Piscataway, NJ;Toshiba America Research Inc., Piscataway, NJ;Columbia University, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The advent of the mobile wireless Internet has created the need for seamless and secure communication over heterogeneous access networks such as IEEE 802,11, WCDMA, cdma2000, and GPRS. An enterprise user desires to be reachable while outside one's enterprise networks and requires minimum interruption while ensuring that the signaling and data traffic is not compromised during one's movement within the enterprise and between enterprise and external networks. We describe the design, implementation and performance of a Secure Universal Mobility (SUM) architecture. It uses standard protocols, such as SIP and Mobile IP, to support mobility and uses standard virtual private network (VPN) technologies (e.g., IPsec) to support security (authentication and encryption.) It uses pre-processing and make-before-break handoff techniques to achieve seamless mobility across heterogeneous radio systems. It separates the handlings of initial mobility management and user application signaling messages from user application traffic so that VPNs can be established only when needed, thus reducing the interruptions to users.