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Analysis and Improvement of a Privacy-Aware Handover Authentication Scheme for Wireless Network

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To enable mobile device seamlessly and securely handover to different access points, a secure and efficient handover authentication scheme is desperately required. However, it is an arduous issue to design a secure handover scheme for wireless network because mobile nodes are limited in power and computational capability, handover latency is severely restricted and wireless network is opening and insecure. To deal the issue, we propose an improved privacy-aware handover authentication scheme for wireless network. We give the security proof to demonstrate our proposed scheme can provide mutual authentication and secure key agreement, and can resist all kinds of known security attacks. Compared with up-to-date similar handover schemes, our proposed scheme not only meets the security requirements of handover scheme, but also decreases computation cost and communication cost. Therefore, our proposed scheme is more suitable for wireless network than the similar schemes.

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This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61272112, 61472287, 61300237), Science and Technology Support Program of Hubei Province (No. 2013BAA004).

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  1. School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Yong Xie & Libing Wu

  2. School of Information and Engineering, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, China

    Yong Xie

  3. State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Libing Wu

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, India

    Neeraj Kumar

  5. School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

    Jian Shen

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Xie, Y., Wu, L., Kumar, N. et al. Analysis and Improvement of a Privacy-Aware Handover Authentication Scheme for Wireless Network. Wireless Pers Commun 93, 523–541 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3352-3

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