GSL-AKA: Group-based Secure Lightweight Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for M2M Communication

Abstract

Nowadays, one of the most important criterions in designing of different generations of mobile cellular technology is to handle a large number of heterogeneous devices with high security guarantees. The first significant security issue considered in this field is mutual authentication of the devices and the network and key agreement between them. Hence, various authentication and key agreement (AKA) protocols were proposed for Long Term Evolution (LTE) and future 5G networks. However, each of the protocols suffers from security and non-security problems. This paper proposed a group-based secure lightweight authentication and key agreement (GSL- AKA) protocol for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. The proposed protocol has been able to overcome various security attacks suffered the previous protocols and achieves all the security goals. Moreover, the performance analysis of the protocol with existing group based AKA protocols shows that the protocol has better result in term of communication and computational overheads.