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A Relay-assisted Handover Pre-authentication Protocol in the LTE Advanced Network

Authors:
Ling Tie
Di He

Keywords: Long Term Evolution; relay; handover; security; strand space; ideal

Abstract:
With the help of relaying, The Long Term Evolution Advanced network is improved on the coverage and capacity. But relaying concept brings many problems on handover management. In this paper, a relay node is introduced in the system structure. We extend the handover procedure to support relaying and transmit security context. We design a relay assisted handover pre-authentication protocol, which happened before the mobile node handovers to the target cell. This article focuses on formal analysis of our proposed security protocol. Finally, an improved strand space and ideal formal analysis method, which includes message authentication code, is introduced. We use it to prove that our proposed protocol can meet the security and authentication proprieties.

Pages: 159 to 168

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: March 25, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4006

ISBN: 978-1-61208-186-1

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from March 25, 2012 to March 30, 2012