Security analysis and enhancements of 3GPP authentication and key agreement protocol

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 734-742

  Zhang, Muxiang ^a   Fang, Yuguang ^b  

^a Verizon Laboratories   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Authentication; Privacy; Security; Third generation (3G); Wireless

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA PRIVACY; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO; SECURITY OF DATA; SYNCHRONIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; VECTORS;

AUTHENTICATION; PRIVACY; SECURITY; THIRD GENERATION (3G);

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 17144430885     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2004.842941     Document Type: Article

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