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SEIP: Secure and seamless IP communications for group-oriented machine to machine communications

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The main requirements of machine to machine (M2M) communication in 5G include support of a massive number of low-data-rate devices and very-low-latency data transfer. Addressing these requirements in 5G requires new methods and in this paper we focus on one of the paramount issues, i.e., secure and seamless IP communications for group-oriented M2M communications. We consider a heterogeneous network architecture based on 3GPP standard, in which the handover occurs between E-UTRAN and Non-3GPP access network. We first propose an improved Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) protocol, and further implement the improved PMIPv6 associated with the group-based lightweight authentication scheme to achieve secure and seamless IP communications, named SEIP, which improves handover latency, packet loss, and signaling overhead. Particularly, SEIP performs access authentication process before IP layer (L3) and link layer (L2) handover to reduce handover delay. In addition, it uses packet buffering and forwarding mechanisms to reduce packet loss during the handover period. SEIP can not only fulfill security requirements in previous protocols, but also can successfully resist some sophisticated attacks, such as redirection, DoS attacks, etc. The results of performance analysis illustrate that SEIP achieves better performance in terms of signaling cost on wireless link, handover latency and packet loss compared to several other schemes.

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  1. M2M D l e a d e r can be selected based on the communication capability, storage status and battery status of each M2MD or can be assigned in advance according to the requirement of applications.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Research Grant (61502386, 61472472, 61402354, 61402354), the International Science and Technology Cooperation and Exchange Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (2015KW-010).

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    Chengzhe Lai

  2. National Engineering Laboratory for Wireless Security, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an, China

    Wenlong Guo, Yafei Li & Dong Zheng

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Lai, C., Guo, W., Li, Y. et al. SEIP: Secure and seamless IP communications for group-oriented machine to machine communications. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 11, 821–836 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-017-0568-2

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