Paper Info
Title
Connectivity and security in a D2D communication protocol for public safety applications
Abstract
Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is an important feature for many kinds of mobile networks and in particular for the UMTS Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) cellular technology, where an underlay network can be created between User Equipments (UEs) without the support of an evolved Node B (eNB). The possibility to allow direct links between UEs plays an important role when the commercial LTE infrastructure is subject to failures or becomes unavailable after a disaster. Project ABSOLUTE, in scenarios for public safety, proposes raising in the sky a balloon with attached a 4G eNB (AeNB) to restore temporarily connectivity. In all cases in which UEs are out-of-coverage of the AeNB like in indoors, D2D becomes crucial. In this work, we propose to establish direct links employing a communication protocol that relies on the transmission of beacon frames sent in broadcast mode by selected UEs. We delve security aspects of this D2D protocol suitable for Public Safety (PS) users with out-of-coverage UEs based on sharing encryption keys. We pursue a network connectivity analysis of the secure protocol whereby we are able to show the existence of tradeoff points between connectivity and the increased overhead added by security for different values of the system parameters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ISWCS.2014.6933414
Wireless Communications Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
3G mobile communication,4G mobile communication,Long Term Evolution,protocols,4G eNB,ABSOLUTE project,D2D communication protocol,LTE-A cellular technology,PS users,UE,UMTS Long Term Evolution advanced cellular technology,commercial LTE infrastructure,device-to-device communication,evolved node B,public safety applications,temporarily connectivity,user equipments
Mobile technology,Broadcasting,Wireless,UMTS frequency bands,Computer security,Computer science,Computer network,Encryption,Underlay,Cellular network,Communications protocol
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.63
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leonardo Goratti133437.38
Gary Steri213310.49
Karina Mabell Gomez328023.87
Gianmarco Baldini446549.94