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An efficient and secure authentication for inter-roaming in wireless heterogeneous network

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There has been a tremendous growth in wireless communications in the recent years. It allows a user to access telecommunication services at any wireless terminal based on unique user identity and security information. To enable users to utilize the services of various providers for such multimedia services, some kind of interaction is required between foreign provider and home provider of users. These inter-domain exchanges are subject to degradations such as packet loss and network delays, which increase the overall authentication time. In this paper, we develop an efficient and secure automated key management scheme that can securely inter-work among all types of mobile networks. The proposed protocol performs well in terms of computational and communication cost, and synchronization efficiency.

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  1. Department of Information and Communications Engineering, University Of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran

    Mir-Kamran Mahshid

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

    Reza Eslamipoor

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Mahshid, MK., Eslamipoor, R. An efficient and secure authentication for inter-roaming in wireless heterogeneous network. Soc. Netw. Anal. Min. 4, 222 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-014-0222-4

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