Title
A privacy-preserving group authentication protocol for machine-type communication in LTE/LTE-A networks.
Abstract
Machine-type communication MTC is a very important application of the Internet of things. It has a vast market and application scenarios. However, supporting a large number of low-power devices transmission is an important issue in long-term evolution/long-term evolution advanced LTE/LTE-A networks. Specifically, when a large number of machine-type communication devices MTCDs with low-power consumption requirements simultaneously request access to the LTE/LTE-A networks, each MTCD needs an independent complete access authentication process with core network, which may cause a serious signaling congestion in the core network. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a novel group authentication protocol with privacy-preserving for MTC in the LTE/LTE-A networks. The proposed protocol cannot only simultaneously authenticate a group of MTCDs and minimize the signaling overhead but also provide robust privacy-preserving for each MTCD including anonymity, unlinkability, and traceability. In particular, our scheme can avoid denial of service attack by filtering some illegal devices in the first four procedures of the mutual authentication. Moreover, our scheme fulfills all the security requirements of the MTC in LTE/LTE-A networks. In addition, the formal verification by the ProVerif tool shows that the proposed scheme is secure against various malicious attacks, and the performance evaluation indicates that it achieves outstanding results in terms of signaling and computation overhead. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1002/sec.1455
Security and Communication Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
MTC,LTE,LTE-A,group authentication,privacy protection
Mutual authentication,Authentication,Denial-of-service attack,Computer science,Core network,Computer security,Computer network,Authentication protocol,Anonymity,LTE Advanced,Formal verification
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
13
1939-0114
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.49
15
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anmin Fu180.49
Jianye Song280.49
Shuai Li311221.86
Gongxuan Zhang49419.89
Yuqing Zhang553558.99