Design of a USIM and ECC based handover authentication scheme for 5G-WLAN heterogeneous networks

摘要

A variety of wireless communication technologies have been developed to provide services to a large number of users.The future integrated 5G-WLAN wireless networks will support seamless and secure roaming,and various types of real-time applications and services,which will be the trend of next-generation computing paradigm.In this paper,we discuss the privacy and security problems in 5G-WLAN heterogeneous networks and present a logical 5G-WLAN integrated architecture.We also propose a novel USIM and ECC based design of handover authentication for next-generation 5G-WLAN heterogeneous networks that can provide secure and seamless Internet connectivity.Our scheme has the features of strong security and better performance in terms of computation cost,energy cost,and storage cost as compared with the state-of-the-art schemes.