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            <p>Novel Approaches to Enhance Mobile WiMAX Security</p>
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            <au id="A1"><snm>Shon</snm><fnm>Taeshik</fnm><insr iid="I1"/><email>743zh2k@gmail.com</email></au>
            <au id="A2"><snm>Koo</snm><fnm>Bonhyun</fnm><insr iid="I1"/><email>koobonhyun@gmail.com</email></au>
            <au id="A3"><snm>Park</snm><fnm>JongHyuk</fnm><insr iid="I2"/><email>parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com</email></au>
            <au ca="yes" id="A4"><snm>Chang</snm><fnm>Hangbae</fnm><insr iid="I3"/><email>hbchang@daejin.ac.kr</email></au>
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            <ins id="I1"><p>Convergence S/W Laboratory, DMC R&amp;D Center, Samsung Electronics, Dong Suwon P.O. Box 105, Maetan-3dong, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 442-600, Republic of Korea</p></ins>
            <ins id="I2"><p>Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Technology, 172, Gongreung 2-dong, Nowon, Seoul 139-743, Republic of Korea</p></ins>
            <ins id="I3"><p>Department of Business Administration, Daejin University, San 11-1, Sundan-Dong, Pocheon-Si, Gyunggi-Do 487-711, Republic of Korea</p></ins>
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         <source>EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking</source>
         <issn>1687-1499</issn>
         <pubdate>2010</pubdate>
         <volume>2010</volume>
         <issue>1</issue>
         <fpage>926275</fpage>
         <url>http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2010/1/926275</url>
         <xrefbib><pubid idtype="doi">10.1155/2010/926275</pubid></xrefbib>
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      <cpyrt><year>2010</year><collab>Taeshik Shon et al.</collab><note>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</note></cpyrt>
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            <p>The IEEE 802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access Standards released IEEE 802.16-2004 which is a standardized technology for supporting broadband and wireless communication with fixed and nomadic access. After the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard, a new advanced and revised standard was released as the IEEE 802.16e-2005 amendment which is foundation of Mobile WiMAX network supporting handover and roaming capabilities. In the area of security aspects, compared to IEEE 802.16-2004, IEEE 802.16e, called Mobile WiMAX, adopts improved security architecture&#8212;PKMv2 which includes EAP authentication, AES-based authenticated encryption, and CMAC or HMAC message protection. However, there is no guarantee that PKMv2-based Mobile WiMAX network will not have security flaws. In this paper, we investigate the current Mobile WiMAX security architecture focusing mainly on pointing out new security vulnerabilities such as a disclosure of security context in network entry, a lack of secure communication in network domain, and a necessity of efficient handover supporting mutual authentication. Based on the investigation results, we propose a novel Mobile WiMAX security architecture, called RObust and Secure MobilE WiMAX (ROSMEX), to prevent the new security vulnerabilities.</p>
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   <meta><classifications><classification id="MMC" subtype="theme_series_title" type="BMC">Multimedia Communications over Next Generation Wireless Networks</classification><classification id="MMC" subtype="theme_series_editor" type="BMC"/></classifications></meta><bdy>
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