METHOD AND DEVICE FOR NEGOTIATING MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION DEVICE GROUP ALGORITHM

• US 20140105383A1
• Filed: 12/17/2013
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: ZHANG, Lijia, XU, Yixian
• Application Number:
  US14/109,809
• Publication Number:
  US 20140105383A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/602 Providing cryptographic facilities or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/205 involving negotiation or determination of the one or more network security mechanisms to be used, e.g. by negotiation between the client and the server or between peers or by selection according to the capabilities of the entities involved negotiation of communication capabilities H04L69/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/14 using a plurality of keys or algorithms
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/037 of the control plane, e.g. signalling traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/04 Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/10 Integrity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for negotiating machine type communication (MTC) device group algorithms, including: selecting a negotiated group encryption algorithm and a negotiated group integrity algorithm from group encryption algorithms and group integrity algorithms supported by an MTC device; sending a security mode command message or a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message to the MTC device, wherein the security mode command message or the RRC connection reconfiguration message carries the negotiated group encryption algorithm and the negotiated group integrity algorithm. The method disclosed in this invention enables the MTC devices to realize the encryption and the integrity protection of communication contents when performing group communication.

Claims

1. A method for negotiating machine type communication (MTC) device group algorithms, comprising:

selecting a negotiated group encryption algorithm from group encryption algorithms supported by an MTC device;

selecting a negotiated group integrity algorithm from group integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device; and

sending a security mode command message or a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message to the MTC device, wherein the security mode command message or the RRC connection reconfiguration message carries the negotiated group encryption algorithm and the negotiated group integrity algorithm.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, before the selecting the negotiated group encryption algorithm and the negotiated group integrity algorithm, the method further comprises:

receiving an attach request message sent by the MTC device, wherein the attach request message carries the group encryption algorithms supported by the MTC device and the group integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein, before the selecting the negotiated group encryption algorithm and the negotiated group integrity algorithm, the method further comprises:

receiving an attach request message sent by the MTC device, wherein the attach request message carries device encryption algorithms supported by the MTC device and device integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device, wherein the group encryption algorithms supported by the MTC device are the same as the device encryption algorithms supported by the MTC device, and the group integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device are the same as the device integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the security mode command message or the RRC connection reconfiguration message further carries a group algorithm opening indication, wherein the group algorithm opening indication is used to indicate that the negotiated group encryption algorithm is the same as a negotiated device encryption algorithm, and the negotiated group integrity algorithm is the same as a negotiated device integrity algorithm.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein, the group encryption algorithms supported by the MTC device and the group integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device are pre-configured.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein, the selecting the negotiated group encryption algorithm and the negotiated group integrity algorithm comprise:

selecting the negotiated group encryption algorithm according to an algorithm priority list of a network side; and

selecting the negotiated group integrity algorithm according to the algorithm priority list of the network side.

7. A network side device, comprising:

a processing module, configured to select a negotiated group encryption algorithm from group encryption algorithms supported by a machine type communication (MTC) device and to select a negotiated group integrity algorithm from group integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device; and

a sending module, configured to send a security mode command message or a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message to the MTC device, wherein the security mode command message or the RRC connection reconfiguration message carries the negotiated group encryption algorithm and the negotiated group integrity algorithm selected by the processing module.

8. The network side device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive an attach request message sent by the MTC device, wherein the attach request message carries the group encryption algorithms supported by the MTC device and the group integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device.

9. The network side device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive an attach request message sent by the MTC device, wherein the attach request message carries device encryption algorithms supported by the MTC device and device integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device, wherein the group encryption algorithms supported by the MTC device are the same as the device encryption algorithms supported by the MTC device, and the group integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device are the same as the device integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device.

10. The network side device according to claim 9, wherein the security mode command message or the RRC connection reconfiguration message further carries a group algorithm opening indication, wherein the group algorithm opening indication is used to indicate that the negotiated group encryption algorithm is the same as a negotiated device encryption algorithm, and the negotiated group integrity algorithms is the same as a negotiated device integrity algorithm.

11. The network side device according to claim 7,

wherein the group encryption algorithms and the group integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device are pre-configured.

12. The network side device according to claim 7,

wherein the processing module is configured to select the negotiated group encryption algorithm according to an algorithm priority list of a network side;

and

wherein the processing module is configured to select the negotiated group integrity algorithm according to the algorithm priority list of the network side.

13. A machine type communication (MTC) device, comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive a security mode command message or a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message sent by a network side, wherein the security mode command message or the RRC connection reconfiguration message carries a negotiated group encryption algorithm and a negotiated group integrity algorithm;

a processing module, configured to obtain a group integrity key and a group encryption key according to the negotiated group encryption algorithm and the negotiated group integrity algorithm, respectively, received by the receiving module.

14. The MTC device according to claim 13, further comprising:

a sending module, configured to send an attach request message to the network side, wherein the attach request message carries group encryption algorithms and group integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device, so that the network side selects the negotiated group encryption algorithm and the negotiated group integrity algorithm from the group encryption algorithms and the group integrity algorithms, respectively, supported by the MTC device.

15. The MTC device according to claim 13, further comprising:

a sending module, configured to send an attach request message to the network side, wherein the attach request message carries device encryption algorithms and device integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device, wherein group encryption algorithms supported by the MTC device are the same as the device encryption algorithms supported by the MTC device, and group integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device are the same as the device encryption algorithms supported by the MTC device, so that the network side selects the negotiated group encryption algorithm and the negotiated integrity algorithm from the group encryption algorithms and the group integrity algorithms supported by the MTC device.

16. The MTC device according to claim 15,

wherein the security mode command message or the RRC connection reconfiguration message further carries a group algorithm opening indication, wherein the group algorithm opening indication is used to indicate that the negotiated group encryption algorithm is the same as a negotiated device encryption algorithm, and the negotiated group integrity algorithm is the same as a negotiated device integrity algorithm.