Split ciphering

摘要

A mobile telecommunications network and method of operation that includes establishing a first user plane connection between a telecommunications device registered with the network and a network gateway device of the network via a first access point; providing the telecommunications device with a token using the first user plane connection; establishing a second user plane connection between the telecommunications device and the network gateway device via a second access point by using the token information to validate the telecommunications device; and, subsequent to establishment of and corresponding to the second user plane connection, establishing a control plane connection between the telecommunications device and the network gateway device via the second access point. The token includes information indicative to the network that the telecommunications device has authorization to send a quantity of data to the network gateway device prior to full conventional authentication of the telecommunications device.

主权项

1. A telecommunications network comprising:
an access point; a network core; a telecommunications device registered with the network and configured to communicate with the network core via the access point; and means for authenticating the access point with the network core comprising:
a security store that has stored thereon information that is used to authenticate the access point with the network core; anda smart card positioned at the access point, the smart card having stored thereon authentication information, and the information stored on the security store comprises details of the authentication information stored on the smart card.