Seamless And Secure Communications Over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Author : Vamsi Krishna Gondi
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Download or read book Seamless Secured Roaming Over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks written by Vamsi Krishna Gondi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future telecom ecosystem will be composed by a set of heterogeneous wireless and cellular networks and user terminal capable to connect and communicate with any of these networks. This thesis contributes for evolution of convergence of wireless heterogeneous networks and to propose novel mechanisms to support low latency handover at authentication level using network selection, security context management and mobility in future telecom ecosystem to allow ubiquitous access to the Internet and services to any individual on the move. This access should be possible anytime anywhere while ensuring the right level of security to the end users as well to the networks. One main objective of the thesis is to define seamless secured roaming mechanisms to enable subscribers or users to roam along different access networks indifferent of access technologies, operators and accessing mechanisms. The proposed thesis provides a roaming & interworking solution using intermediary entity, called Roaming Interworking Intermediary (RII), which enable the secure handover across different access systems and different operator domains without service interruption. RII acts like a broker in the RII architecture between home and visited operator networks. RII provides mobility management, context transfer between service providers, security architecture for authentication and associations of users while roaming, network and presence management. The thesis also defines new mechanisms to enable low latency during handovers and roaming by optimizing and introducing new authentication and mobility models (post handover techniques) in heterogeneous networks. We have provided new methods to solve ever longing issue of user identity and routing of user authentication information from visiting access networks with or without a direct SLA with the home network. We have introduced dynamic authentication model with the proposed RII architecture where a user or subscriber gets authenticated at the visiting network without re-routing authentication information to home networks. The thesis also propose a new mobility mechanisms based on Proxy Mobile IP and extending AAA infrastructure to obtain very low latency during handover in WLAN, WIMAX and 3G networks. Testbeds and comparative studies between proposed and existing models for authentication and mobility are provided. This thesis also provides novel pre handover techniques in heterogeneous networks to ensure seamless handover during mobility and roaming. This method is a network centric approach where the access networks controls whole procedures of network selection, security, mobility etc... with the help of mobile terminals and visiting networks. Therefore, new models for location prediction based Network selection, security context management for authentications, context based mobility models are proposed in this thesis. New supporting protocols and extensions of existing protocol to achieve seamless handovers are proposed in this work. A full testbed is built with the implementation of the proposed protocols to evaluate the proposed of the efficiency of the proposed mechanisms.