DMAM: distributed mobility and authentication mechanism in next generation networks

• DOI: 10.1002/sec.1041
• Publication Date: 2014-06-23T05:19:17Z
• Authors: Muhammad Zubair; Xiangwei Kong; Saeed Mahfooz
• Keywords: Mobility management

Abstract Traditional centralized approaches toward mobility management such as MIPv6 and its variants suffer because of the performance issues like single‐point failure, non‐optimal routing, low scalability, authentication latency, signaling messages overhead protocols. In this paper, we propose a novel network‐based Distributed Mobility Authentication Mechanism (DMAM) to focus on these issues. DMAM decomposes functions into Home Address Allocation, routing (MR), location (LM). A new entity is introduced in DMAM, called Location Manager that distributes MR LM among multiple routers which mobile node can be attached. Furthermore, offers strong mechanism based symmetric cryptographic collision‐free one‐way hash function. The proposed scheme analyzed compared with existing terms handover blocking probability, packet loss, communication overhead, computational cost. conducted numerical results demonstrate outperforms approaches. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.