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A secure location management scheme in an LEO-satellite network with dual-mobility

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Low Earth orbit (LEO) communication satellite constellation provides network service to remote areas without terrestrialnetwork coverage. In sparsely populated areas, the deployment of ground stations is also scarce, due to geographic constraints and the lack of terrestrial backhaul. Due to the constant orbiting of the satellite constellation, location management in LEO satellite-assisted vehicular networks faces the challenges of the dual mobility of access points and users. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving location management scheme in an LEO satellite network with sparsely deployed ground stations. Specifically, the proposed scheme exploits the RSA-based accumulator and the Non-Interactive Proof-of-Knowledge of Exponent (\(\textsf{NI}\)-\(\textsf{PoKE}\)) protocol to verify the linkages between satellites and vehicles. Meanwhile, our scheme combines the homomorphic Symmetric Homomorphic Encryption (\(\textsf{SHE}\)) cryptosystem, the Secure Less than (\(\textsf{SLESS}\)) protocol, and the KdTree structure, to identify the potential set of accessing satellites. Security analysis shows that the proposed scheme achieves privacy preservation and authentication. Performance evaluations show that ours achieve high computation and communication efficiency.

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This work is supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2022YFF0503900; in part supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62072404, 62202127; in part by Shanghai Natural Science Foundation under Grant 23ZR1417700.

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  1. Institute of Space Science and Applied Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518055, Guangdong, China

    Qinglei Kong & Yifan Wang

  2. The College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    Maode Ma

  3. School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518172, Guangdong, China

    Xiaodong Qu

  4. Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, 200062, Shanghai, China

    Haiyong Bao

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K.W.M.Q. and B. wrote the main manuscript text and W.Q. prepared the performance evaluations and figures. M. contributed to the revision of the manuscript. All authors reviewed the manuscript.

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Kong, Q., Wang, Y., Ma, M. et al. A secure location management scheme in an LEO-satellite network with dual-mobility. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 17, 3146–3158 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-024-01742-7

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