A Blockchain-Based Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) Protocol for 5G Networks

Subscriber authentication is a primitive operation in mobile networks required by each operator prior to offering any service to end users. In this paper, we propose a novel blockchain-based Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) protocol for roaming services in 5G networks. Each Home Network (HN) c...

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Main Authors: Maede Hojjati, Alireza Shafieinejad, Halim Yanikomeroglu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9276451/