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Chain authentication in mobile communication systems

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Digital mobile telecommunication systems have become a future trend in personal communications services (PCS) networks. To satisfy the demand for high quality services, security functions, including the authentications of communication parties and the confidentiality of communication channels, must be embedded into mobile communication systems. This work presents an authentication scheme to support the security functions. The proposed protocol significantly improves the performance of authentications and ensures the security of mobile communications in a large-scale communication network with multiple service providers.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 30050, Taiwan, ROC

    Chern-Tang Lin & Shiuh-Pyng Shieh

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Lin, CT., Shieh, SP. Chain authentication in mobile communication systems. Telecommunication Systems 13, 213–240 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019144106761

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