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Hybrid Authentication Scheme for Mobile Multi-hop Relay in IEEE 802.16j  

Lee, Yong (Dept. of Electron. and Comm., ChungJu National University)
Lee, Goo-Yeon (Dept. of Computer Eng. Kangwon National University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC / v.44, no.10, 2007 , pp. 127-136 More about this Journal
Abstract
It is easy to install and maintain a mobile multi-hop wireless network due to its self-organizing characteristics. However it has security weakness of the authentication of mobile multi-hop relay stations. Specially, the mobile multi-hop relay network in the IEEE 802.16j has the additional security weakness caused by the requirement of backward compatibility for mobile stations of the conventional IEEE 802.16 system. In this paper, we propose a novel mutual authentication scheme applicable to IEEE 802.16j-based mobile multi-hop relay network architecture. The scheme is able to resolve the initial trust gain problem of a multi-hop node at its entry to the network, the problem of rogue mobile multi-hop node and the problem of hop-by-hop authentication between multi-hop nodes. Effectively, the scheme is a hybrid scheme of the distributed authentication method and the centralized authentication method which have been considered to be deployed in the wireless ad-hoc network and the wireless network connected to wired authentication servers, respectively. Also, we analyze the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid authentication method.
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IEEE 802.16j;
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