Group-Based Handover Authentication Scheme For Machine-to-Machine Communication In LTE-A Network

Machine to Machine Communication has been proved the vital entity with its inherent and real-time network applications in LTE-A network.Machine-to-Machine(M2M)or Machine Type Communication(MTC)is also becoming the milestone in the era of new technologies for the future mobile communication.With the real-time network applications,MTC has drawn tremendous attention in the short span of time.MTC is a mean source of communications between devices,core network without intervention of the third party.With the rapid growing and usage of MTC devices,the threat of breach in security is also increasing,while security is the paramount issue in M2M communication.When we talk about a huge number of MTC devices request all together for the register to the desired network,whereas individual device has to complete its authentication procedure over the network.The procedure of access authentication of a huge number of devices at a time which could suffer from a severe signaling congestion and reluctant to provide a robust security mechanism for the MTC devices over the LTE-A Network.To come up with these issues,we propose a Secure&Efficient Group-Based Handover Authentication Scheme(SEGHAS)named Improved Privacy-Aware Handover Authentication(iPAHA)which is capable of achieving all the security mechanism with less communication and computation cost,fast handover,avoid the signaling congestion and also prevent from unauthorized user access in M2M Communication in LTE-A Network.Furthermore,by using the Pro-Verif tool for network testing and authentication against malicious attacks,while concluding results shows that our scheme is the best fit in terms of computation and signaling overhead.