Networking authentication and key agreement protocol for space-ground
integrated network
Abstract
The space-ground integrated network has the characteristics of open
communication link, narrow bandwidth and limited satellite computing
resources. Aiming at the problem that the existing authentication and
key agreement (AKA) protocol can not meet the communication scenario of
the space-ground integrated network, this paper analyzes the security
performance requirements of the space-ground integrated network, and
proposes a networking AKA protocol, including two stages of adjacent
node networking AKA and cross-node networking AKA. In the phase of
adjacent node networking AKA, the networking AKA are performed based on
the ground AAS to generate inter-satellite authentication credentials.
In the cross-node networking AKA stage, based on the authentication
credentials generated by adjacent satellite authentication, the
Chebyshev chaotic mapping technology is used to realize cross-node
inter-satellite mutual authentication. Security and performance analysis
show that our protocol has certain advantages in security, and improves
the computation and communication efficiency to meet the lightweight
requirements of the space-ground integrated network.