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PROXY BASED AUTHENTICATION LOCALISATION SCHEME FOR HANDOVER<br />

the FAT for the selected access network (determ<strong>in</strong>ed by the handover decision<br />

algorithm <strong>in</strong> the mobile term<strong>in</strong>al) would be used by the MH for fast authentication.<br />

6.3.3 Fast Authentication Method<br />

To handover to a new Access Network (nAN), the MH sends out a Fast Authentication<br />

Request <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g the correspond<strong>in</strong>g FAT and its SQN m to the nAN for request<strong>in</strong>g local<br />

authentication. The MH can <strong>in</strong>fluence the AAA rout<strong>in</strong>g by modify<strong>in</strong>g the realm portion<br />

of its identity [64]. The new identity realm portion can be determ<strong>in</strong>ed accord<strong>in</strong>g to the<br />

identity ID p of the FAP associated with the nAN. As a result, the fast authentication<br />

request can be redirected to the specified FAP <strong>in</strong>stead of the HAAA. If the modification<br />

of the realm portion is not supported by the AAA protocol, the MH may provide the<br />

nAN with the FAP’s identity ID p so that the nAN can route the authentication request<br />

accord<strong>in</strong>gly. The FAP decrypts the received FAT ( ID , N , PID , SQN , LAK , MAC)<br />

- 123 -<br />

EK hp m s p<br />

us<strong>in</strong>g the key K hp shared with the MH’s HAAA and retrieves its contents. However,<br />

further operations will proceed only if the FAT’s SQN is equal to the SQN m provided<br />

by the MH. Next, the FAP uses Equation 6.5 to derive its identity from the pseudo one<br />

PID p provided by the HAAA:<br />

ID � PID � h(<br />

K || N ) � N<br />

(Equation 6.5)<br />

p<br />

p<br />

hp<br />

s<br />

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