Protection against denial-of-service attacks

Details Protection against denial-of-service attacks Protection against denial-of-service attacks

2005-10-24

2009-11-10

Barron, Jr., Gilberto (Department: 2432)

Information security

Access control or authentication

Network

C726S018000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07617524

ABSTRACT:
The invention proposes a method for handling authentication requests in a network, wherein the authentication requests may have different types, the method comprising the steps of determining (S1, S3, S4) types of the authentication requests, and applying (S5-S7) a policy for handling the received authentication requests based on the determined types of authentication requests. The invention also proposes a corresponding network control element and a computer program product.

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3GPP—TS 33.234 V6.4.0, “3rdGeneration Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Service and System Aspects; 3G Security; Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) interworking security”, Mar. 2005, pp. 1-85.
H. Haverinen, Ed. (Nokia) J. Salowey, Ed. (Cisco Systems), “Extensible Authentication Protocol Method for GSM Subscriber Identity Modules (EAP-SIM)”, Dec. 21, 2004, pp. 1-85.

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