Design and Analysis of an Authentication Protocol for D2D communication in 5G Networks

Abstract

Device to device (D2D) communication, an advancing methodology, addresses the rising demand newlinefrom mobile users and improves the efficiency of established telecommunication networks. newlineHigh data speed, more connectivity, switching network forced a need of Long Term newlineEvolution-Advanced (LTE-A) and 5th Generation (5G) over previous generations. Having newlineanalysis of recent critical attacks and threats in it, creates a huge need of secured algorithms newlineto achieve authentication, confidentiality and secured communication. Long Term Evolution newline(LTE) optimized with advanced techniques, improving security, spectrum efficiency, and coverage newlinein wireless networks. With this motivation, a dual authentication algorithm for LTE newlineis proposed that checks credentials for user verification and subsequently authenticates the newlineconcealed entity. newlineImplementation of the dual authentication algorithm gives average throughput (AT) of 89.656 newlinebit/s, Packet to Data ration (PDR) is 96.6667% and dropped packets are 6 for normal LTE network newlineand that to in case of attacked network, AT is 76.8 bit/s, PDR is 83.333% and dropped newlinepackets are 30 for attacked LTE network. Further, Secured Authentication Protocol (SAP) is newlineproposed to establish a secured communication using quantum cryptography against classical newlineattacks for LTE-A. Execution of proposed SAP algorithm provides, 0.666 ms of computational newlinecost for 10 numbers of users, 3968 bits and 4224 bits of communication cost for 3 and 4 numbers newlineof users respectively, with 784 bits and 7.25 joules of storage and energy consumption. newlineFinally, to secure D2D communication against quantum attacks, the Mutual Authentication newlineAlgorithm (MAA) is proposed based on Lattice cryptography for 5G. Its Registration and newlineShared Secret Key Generation phases enable both users to establish a common secret key. newlineExecution of proposed MAA algorithm proves that computational cost of proposed MAA newlinecompared to existing Lattice Cryptosystem (LaCSys) is 1.85% to 2.6%, communication cost newlineis 3.25%, storage cost is 2.25% and an energy consumption