PDAF: Proactive Distributed Authentication Framework for Regional Network

Abstract

We are designing a regional network for New Generation Network (NWGN), which is a future network vision. Regional network needs strong security protections to enable it to be robust under various attacks, such as impersonation attack, replay attack, and illegal modification. To disable these attacks, we identify the design requirements and then propose a proactive and distributed authentication framework (PDAF), where a novel entity called regional network key server (RNKS) is introduced for ID/key generation in this network. By the proposed PDAF, the automatic trustworthy registration, distributed access authentication, handover authentication and mutual authentication can be achieved by end devices, and meanwhile trustworthy information dissemination and transmission can be realized for networking devices without involving trust third parties (TTPs).