SECURE AND EFFICIENT HANDOVER AUTHENTICATION AND DETECTION OF SPOOFING ATTACK

Murugan K, Boobalan S, Varalakshmi P, Nandha Kumar R

Abstract: WiMAX comprises of mobile nodes, to provide secure and seamless communication. Handover latency in WiMAX plays a vital role in performance of the system. In this paper we proposed a group manager scheme to reduce the handover latency and security consideration. The Group Manager sends the authentication details of the mobile node to the target Base Station. In order to provide security ,the Group Manager authenticate the Mobile node with base station using light weight RC4 algorithm and then sends it to access service network(ASN). In order to detect the Spoofing attack, an Attack Detection System has been developed using Support Vector Machine which prevents group manager and its mobile nodes from intruders. This approach drastically reduces the number of messages and time taken for authentication and thereby improves the overall efficiency of the network.

Keywords: mobile WiMAX, Group Manager, Handover, and Authentication.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0319089