Reducing communication overhead for wireless roaming authentication: Methods and performance evaluation

International Journal of Network Security

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 331-341

  Long, Men ^a   Wu, Chwan Hwa John ^b   Irwin, J David ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authentication and key agreement (AKA); Roaming authentication; Security; Wireless LAN; Wireless roaming

Indexed keywords

3G CELLULAR NETWORKS; AUTHENTICATION AND KEY AGREEMENTS; AUTHENTICATION LATENCY; AUTHENTICATION METHODS; BETTER PERFORMANCE; COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; PUBLIC KEY CERTIFICATES; SECURITY;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER TERMINALS; COST REDUCTION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOBILE PHONES; NETWORK SECURITY; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

AUTHENTICATION;

EID: 73149084743     PISSN: 1816353X     EISSN: 18163548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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