Research on 4G and 5G Authentication Signaling

Abstract

In recent years, the development and standardization of 5G networks have received extensive attention. 3GPP officially confirmed that Service-Based Architecture (SBA) is the unified infrastructure of the 5G core network (5GC). The Service-Based Interface (SBI) is an important part of the SBA for interaction between network function services within the 5GC. The fifth generation mobile network will support a range of use cases and requirements that are completely different from traditional 4G networks, such as providing a high level of authentication mechanisms. This paper is organized as follows: First, we compare the difference between 4G authentication and 5G authentication in three aspects including the 4G architecture, authentication process, and communication protocol stack, then implement the simulation environment, and finally evaluate the performance by comparing the delay.