Efficient Handover Authentication Scheme for Mobile Nodes in Wireless Networks

Seamless connectivity to the mobile nodes over wireless network is highly desirable, and also achieving security such as authentication and efficiency of such process is challenging. Due to the geographical coverage limit of each access point, it is important to have an efficient handover authentication protocol. When the Mobile Node moves from the current Access Point into new Access Point, authentication should be performed at the new Access Point. Through authentication, new Access Point authenticates the Mobile Node to identify or reject any access request by an unauthorized user. Furthermore, a handover authentication process should be computationally efficient, such a process should be fast enough to maintain persistent connectivity for Mobile Node’s. The major goal of this paper is to achieve a Seamless, Secure and Efficient Handover over multiple Access Point’s to the Mobile Nodes by implementing a Novel Handover Mechanism.