An Anonymous Handover Authentication Scheme Based on LTE-A for Vehicular Networks

Table 1

Notations used in the ARHAP scheme.

Notation	Description
OBU, MME, eNodeB, HSS	On-board units equip in vehicle, Mobile management entity, evolved NodeB, Home subscriber server
ID, PW	Identity and password of an entity X
P	Elliptic curve, the basis of order for n
h()	Hash function
/	Symmetrical encryption and decryption of key K
/	Unsymmetrical encryption and decryption of key K
‖	Concatenation operation
⊕	XOR operation
SK	Session key