Predictive routing of contexts in an overlay network
IM'09 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Symposium on Integrated Network Management
Secure protocol for fast authentication in EAP-based wireless networks
ICCSA'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Computational science and Its applications - Volume Part II
Analysis of Handover Key Management schemes under IETF perspective
Computer Standards & Interfaces
Secure three-party key distribution protocol for fast network access in EAP-based wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A kerberized architecture for fast re-authentication in heterogeneous wireless networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
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As mobile users cross the border of two adjacent domains with on-going sessions, their re-authentication causes a significant impact on inter-domain handoff latency as it requires remote contact with the authentication server across domains, making it difficult to employ current authentication protocols. This paper focuses on the cross-domain authentication over wireless local area networks (WLANs) that minimizes the need for remote access. We analyze the security requirements suggested by the IEEE 802.11i authentication standard, and consider additional requirements to help reduce the authentication latency without compromising the level of security. We propose an enhanced protocol called the Mobility-adjusted Authentication Protocol (MAP) that performs mutual authentication and hierarchical key derivation with minimal handshakes, relying on symmetric cryptographic functions. We also present security context nodes (SCNs) that handle security contexts in conjunction with MAP, which allows for avoiding continuous remote contact with the home authentication server. In contrast to Kerberos which favors inter-realm authentication, MAP achieves a 26% reduction of authentication latency without degrading the level of security.