Project: Security Enhancement of 5G Wireless Networks

The fifth generation (5G) wireless networks are featured with many promising advantages including ubiquitous connectivity, lower latency, higher data rate, and higher bandwidth. The 5G wireless networks will bring millions of connected devices, interoperability of new and legacy access technologies, they will also bring new security challenges regarding concurrent access from massive devices and device-to-device (D2D) communication, etc.

5G Wireless Networks

The design of access authentication protocols to fit into the security requirements of 5G wireless networks, and realize authentication for massive multi-type terminals, integrity protection, secure D2D communication, etc., are the research focuses of this project. In this project, we are working on two unique challenges in 5G wireless networks, which are concurrent access authentication and key agreement (AKA) for massive resource constrained terminals, and the mutual authentication mechanism for D2D devices. 

 

Reference:

  • A. Ozhelvaci and Maode Ma, "A Group Authentication Scheme with Privacy-preserving for D2D Communications in 5G HetNets," Proc-The 2nd International Electronics Communication Conference 2020, IECC 2020, Singapore, July 2020.
  • M. C. Chow and Maode Ma, "A Lightweight D2D Authentication Scheme against Free-riding Attacks in 5G Cellular Network, " Proc-The 2nd International Electronics Communication Conference 2020, IECC 2020, Singapore, July 2020.
  • Z. Shang, Maode Ma, and X. Li, "A Certificateless Authentication Protocol for D2D Group Communications in 5G Cellular Networks,” Proc-IEEE GLOBECOM 2019, USA, December 2019.

 

For more information, you may contact our Professor Ma Maode.