Hui Lu

US Patent:

8108677, Jan 31, 2012

Filed:

Jun 27, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/823620

Inventors:

Thomas Wayne Anderson - Naperville IL, US
Igor Faynberg - East Brunswick NJ, US
Hui Lan Lu - Marlboro NJ, US
Zachary Zeltsan - Bronx NY, US

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent - Paris

International Classification:

H04L 9/32
H04L 29/06

US Classification:

713172, 713159, 726 2, 726 3

Abstract:

The invention that addresses the problem of authentication of the transport packet stream (which constitutes a flow within a session), which has been admitted into a managed packet network. Authentication and the subsequent policing of the flows supporting an identified client's authorized service prevent a large class of denial of service attacks described below. Specifically, the invention addresses two different matters: 1) key distribution and management 2) various forms of using a shared key for the authentication of transport packets on the user-to-network-interface (UNI).