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Integrated Authentication and Key Management Method among Heterogeneous Wireless Mobile Networks  

Park Hyung-Soo (Graduate School of Information Security, Korea University)
Lee Hyung-Woo (Div. of Computer Information and Software, Hanshin University)
Lee Dong-Hoon (Graduate School of Information Security, Korea University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC / v.43, no.7, 2006 , pp. 50-59 More about this Journal
Abstract
The new communication paradigm is rapidly shifted from wireless mobile networks to an All-IP(Internet Protocol) network, led by service industry leaders and communication manufacturers. In this paradigm, providing authentication and session keys of a subscriber becomes one of the critical tasks because of IP open accessibility among heterogeneous networks. In this paper, we introduce authentication process procedure of heterogeneous wireless mobile networks and develop so-called IMAS(Integrated Mobile Authentication Server) which can securely inter-work among all mobile networks and support the legacy networks with backward compatibility. Especially, in designing IMAS, mobile authentication inter-working mechanism, key management technique, and other issues to be overcome are presented. We analyze and evaluate the performance of authentication algorithm which creates session key. A simulation environment of IMAS is established, and a performance(TPS; Transaction Per Second) result is analyzed and evaluated. It turned out that IMAS works among heterogeneous wireless mobile networks without compensating efficiency and functionalities of the legacy networks and decrease the entropy of data redundancy and data inconsistency among networks because of the integrity of the distributed Data Base(DB).
Keywords
All-IP Network; Authentication Inter-Working; Heterogeneous Wireless Mobile Networks;
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