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A Survey of Security Threats and Authentication Schemes in WiMAX

by Parampreet Singh, Jyotsna Sengupta
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 69 - Number 23
Year of Publication: 2013
Authors: Parampreet Singh, Jyotsna Sengupta
10.5120/12108-8162

Parampreet Singh, Jyotsna Sengupta . A Survey of Security Threats and Authentication Schemes in WiMAX. International Journal of Computer Applications. 69, 23 ( May 2013), 1-5. DOI=10.5120/12108-8162

@article{ 10.5120/12108-8162,
author = { Parampreet Singh, Jyotsna Sengupta },
title = { A Survey of Security Threats and Authentication Schemes in WiMAX },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { May 2013 },
volume = { 69 },
number = { 23 },
month = { May },
year = { 2013 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 1-5 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume69/number23/12108-8162/ },
doi = { 10.5120/12108-8162 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%A Jyotsna Sengupta
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%J International Journal of Computer Applications
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

WiMAX networks have advantages over the wired network, such as convenience, mobility, and flexibility. The security concerns in this network may prevent its further widespread adoption. Hence, improving the security of WiMAX is of considerable importance. In WiMAX networks by providing security features like authentication, authorization and encryption. The absence of proper authentication mechanism can lead to many threats like denial of service, masquerading and attacks on the authentication protocol. Authentication is the most difficult from the perspective of network security; hence, various forms and threats related to authentication are needed to be studied. The aim of this paper is to study the various authentication schemes such as RSA, EAP and HMAC.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Wireless network WiMAX 802. 16.