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Design and analysis of secure host-based mobility protocol for wireless heterogeneous networks

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Mobility protocols allow hosts to change their location or network interface while maintaining ongoing sessions. While such protocols can facilitate vertical mobility in a cost-efficient and access agnostic manner, they are not sufficient to address all security issues when used in scenarios requiring local mobility management. In this paper, we propose a new scheme that makes Host Identity Protocol (HIP) able to serve as an efficient and secure mobility protocol for wireless heterogeneous networks while preserving all the advantages of the base HIP functions as well. Our proposal, called Heterogeneous Mobility HIP (HMHIP), is based on hierarchical topology of rendezvous Servers (RVSs), signaling delegation, and inter-RVS communication to enable secure and efficient network mobility support in the HIP layer. Formal security analysis using the AVISPA tool and performance evaluation of this method are provided; they confirm the safety and efficiency of the proposed solution. HMHIP reduces handover latency and packet overhead during handovers by achieving registration locally.

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  1. University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Imen El Bouabidi, Faouzi Zarai & Lotfi Kamoun

  2. Monmouth University, Monmouth, USA

    Mohammad S. Obaidat

  3. Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Mohammad S. Obaidat

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El Bouabidi, I., Zarai, F., Obaidat, M.S. et al. Design and analysis of secure host-based mobility protocol for wireless heterogeneous networks. J Supercomput 70, 1036–1050 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-013-1080-y

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