Joint International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems and International Conference on Networking and Services - (icas-icns'05)
Authentication platform for seamless handover in heterogeneous environments
Papeete, Tahiti
October 23-October 28
ISBN: 0-7695-2450-8
This work tackles the hot issue of user handover from one network to another, or generally from one Radio Access Technology (RAT) to another, in a 4G heterogeneous mobile and wireless environment without the interruption of an ongoing service (seamless handover) with user authentication support. This paper proposes an authenticated seamless handover mechanism and describes the authentication platform for two network environments: an operator with both GPRS and WLAN networks (the user performs a vertical handover). Two different WLAN operators (the user performs a horizontal handover).
Index Terms:
Authentication, Heterogeneous environment, Mobile IPv6, Seamless handover, GPRS, WLAN.
Citation:
Dimitris Nikitopoulos, Nikolaos Papaoulakis, Angelos Trakos, Alexandros Giamas, Efstathios Sykas, Michael Theologou, "Authentication platform for seamless handover in heterogeneous environments," icas-icns, pp.36, Joint International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems and International Conference on Networking and Services - (icas-icns'05), 2005