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Lightweight Secure Roaming Mechanism Between GPRS/UMTS and Wireless LANs

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The third generation partner project (3GPP) has standardized general packet radio service (GPRS) and the universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) to provide cell phone communications and wireless Internet services. Although the data transmission rate is lower than that of wireless local area networks (WLANs), GPRS/UMTS covers larger areas. Hence, to achieve higher speed ubiquitous access, we propose a lightweight secure roaming mechanism (LSRM) that integrates GPRS/UMTS and WLAN. Taking advantage of these two technologies, LSRM offers anonymous roaming and friendly subscriber management. Besides, we give a formal security analysis to LSRM based on BAN authentication logic.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Jung-San Lee & Chin-Chen Chang

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, 621, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Pei-Yu Lin & Chin-Chen Chang

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Lee, JS., Lin, PY. & Chang, CC. Lightweight Secure Roaming Mechanism Between GPRS/UMTS and Wireless LANs. Wireless Pers Commun 53, 569–580 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-009-9703-6

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