| Title | UFAP: Ultra-fast handoff authentication protocol for wireless mesh networks |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Alamri, N., Chow, C. E., Aljaedi, A., Elgzil, A. |
| Conference Name | 2018 Wireless Days (WD) |
| Keywords | authentication, Communication system security, composability, cryptographic protocols, cryptography, delays, EAP-PEAP, EAP-TLS, extensible authentication protocol, Handoff, handoff authentication protocol, id-based, IEEE 802.11s, Metrics, mobile devices, mobile radio, mobility management (mobile radio), Protocols, pubcrawl, resilience, Servers, telecommunication security, ticket-based, token-based, token-based authentication protocol, trust-based, UFAP, Ultra-fast handoff authentication protocol, Wireless communication, wireless mesh networks |
| Abstract | Wireless mesh networking (WMN) is a new technology aimed to introduce the benefits of using multi-hop and multi-path to the wireless world. However, the absence of a fast and reliable handoff protocol is a major drawback especially in a technology designed to feature high mobility and scalability. We propose a fast and efficient handoff authentication protocol for wireless mesh networks. It is a token-based authentication protocol using pre-distributed parameters. We provide a performance comparison among our protocol, UFAP, and other protocols including EAP-TLS and EAP-PEAP tested in an actual setup. Performance analysis will prove that our proposed handoff authentication protocol is 250 times faster than EAP-PEAP and 500 times faster than EAP-TLS. The significant improvement in performance allows UFAP to provide seamless handoff and continuous operation even for real-time applications which can only tolerate short delays under 50 ms. |
| DOI | 10.1109/WD.2018.8361684 |
| Citation Key | alamri_ufap:_2018 |
UFAP: Ultra-fast handoff authentication protocol for wireless mesh networks