This paper proposes an authentication service and an authentication protocol analysis using belief logic in mobile networks. An authentication protocol can be formalized as a kind of trust theory, which can be used to reason about the trust of agents....
This paper proposes an authentication service and an authentication protocol analysis using belief logic in mobile networks. An authentication protocol can be formalized as a kind of trust theory, which can be used to reason about the trust of agents. Reasoning about trust actually involves reasoning about beliefs, therefore a theory of trust may need to be based on a kind of belief logic.
rom the point of view of mobility signaling owner, the mobility support protocols are divided into two categories: host-based and network-based mobility management protocols. Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and its extensions such as Fast MIPv6 and Hierarchical MIPv6 are classified into the host-based mobility management protocol and Proxy MIPv6 (PMIPv6) is the network-based mobility management protocol that has been recently developed by the IETF.
In PMIPv6, it is possible to support mobility for IPv6 nodes without host involvement. The mobile access gateway (MAG) sends the proxy binding update (PBU) message on behalf of the MN when the MN moves to its coverage or boots up within its coverage. The local mobility anchor (LMA) acts as the home agent (HA) of the MN in the PMIPv6 domain and is responsible for maintaining the MN’s reachability by receiving the proxy binding update (PBU) from the MAG. Thus, MN does not need the MIPv6 stack in the PMIPv6 domain.
Designing a correct protocol specification that satisfies certain security properties is an important task. BAN logic is a well-known authentication logic that remains popular with many protocol designers. Analyzing a cipher protocol through BAN Logic, we must perform the reconfiguration process to protocol idealization and induce an assumption of initial status of protocol in BAN Logic notation.
To date, there has been no research analyzing the authentication method of EAP-TLS using BAN Logic in the PMIPv6 environment. Specifically, a designer who requires a high strength authentication system, such as online banking or e-marketing, needs a mutual authentication mechanism in a distributed environment. To this end, our research provides a basis for analyzing the certificate through the EAP-TLS authentication mechanism in PMIPv6.
In ad-hoc environments, all nodes have function to set themselves a route and build a network. It is important how trustable each node is in the environment. This study proposes the cluster-based trust model, and uses the model to discuss how you can solve some possible problems occurred in the network. The reputation from a neighboring node is applied to the calculation of the trust value. If the trust value of a truster is used as a weight, more sophisticated calculation of the trust value is available. When you create a cluster, all nodes in the cluster can fully trust the selected head, if entire nodes in the cluster participate in the head competition. And then, the head node issues the certificate that shows the trust level of each member node. If a node moves from one cluster to another, the trust level of the node is determined by the certificate issued by the previous cluster-head. The model proposed by this study can monitor the selfish behavior of nodes in the network and isolate the selfish nodes from the network to enhance the effectiveness throughout the network.
Trust plays an important role when any decision is made based on unstable, uncertain information. This functionality has recently been introduced in e-commerce and virtual communities, where trust represents the subjective degree of belief. In a conventional network environment, trust is set and recognized through the access control procedure. The nodes, to which fixed roles are allocated, can be replaced by various decisions in an open network environment. In this setting, reputation is an important element affecting decisions. Reputation represents a positive prediction level for an object's future behaviors, and greatly affects the decision to trust. There are two ways to obtain information regarding reputation: the subject's own experience with an agent and a recommendation from objects around a subject.
Trust affects certain decisions, i.e., access control and the selection of a public key in the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Trust is available to supplement the PKI when an object decides whether to receive a public key, based on the other object's trust level. The cluster-head, which has the highest trust value, and which is elected as a head in the group, should not be a trusted third party (TTP), but should operate the same as the other nodes in the same group. Basically, the cluster-head has a role to keep the cluster’s information and to broadcast information to members. Also, all nodes may issue a certificate binding the agent’s key and identity.
It is impossible to obtain an appropriate trust value if there is a lack of interaction among the nodes, as in the existing trust models. However, the proposed cluster-based trust model can quickly determine the trust values, even in situations where no experience data is available with the help of neighboring nodes or “introducers”.
In this study proposes a cluster-based network model, and trust model, using fuzzy control, that can evaluate the trust value in order to provide an authentication service in ad-hoc environments where there is no centrally controlled server. This model is then used to discuss methods of effectively and correctly calculating the trust value of a node newly entering the cluster, methods to identify the selfish nodes in the cluster, and methods to protect against other possible attacks.