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Group-Based Authentication and Key Agreement

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This paper presents an authentication and key agreement protocol to streamline communication activities for a group of mobile stations (MSs) roaming from the same home network (HN) to a serving network (SN). In such a roaming scenario, conventional schemes require the SN to interact with the HN for authenticating respective MSs, at the cost of repeated message exchanges and communication delay. Instead, in our design, when the first MS of a group visits, the SN performs full authentication with the concerned HN and thereby obtains authentication information for the MS and other members. Thus when any other MS of the same group visits, the SN can authenticate locally without subsequent involvement of the HN, so as to simplify protocol operations. We will show that our scheme does not trade performance for security and robustness to the extent that security requirements are unduly weakened. Both qualitative and quantitative discussions indicate that our proposed scheme lends itself to pragmatic settings.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Yu-Wen Chen & Chien-Chao Tseng

  2. Information and Computer Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Jui-Tang Wang

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan

    Kuang-Hui Chi

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This work has been supported by the National Science Council, ROC, under grants NSC 98-2220-E-009-047 and NSC 97-2221-E-009-051-MY3, and by the ministry of Economics, ROC, under the grant 9301 × S2210.

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Chen, YW., Wang, JT., Chi, KH. et al. Group-Based Authentication and Key Agreement. Wireless Pers Commun 62, 965–979 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-010-0104-7

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