Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: With the advent of 5G and the forthcoming 6G networks, network slicing has emerged as a pivotal technology to address the diverse and dynamic communication needs of modern systems. It enables the creation of multiple virtual networks over a shared physical infrastructure, optimizing resource utilization and providing tailored services. However, due to the security and service requirements of different slices, different network slicings usually adopt different public key cryptosystems, that is, heterogeneous network slicing, which inevitably leads to security challenges in data transmission of heterogeneous network devices. To address this, this paper proposes a generalized multi-heterogeneous signcryption scheme (MHSC) for network slicing, which ensures secure and efficient data transmission among devices utilizing three widely adopted public key cryptography systems: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Identity-Based Cryptography (IBC), and Certificateless Cryptography (CLC). Based mathematically hard problems, MHSC achieves multiple security properties, including forward secrecy and public verifiability, ensuring a higher level of security. In computational and communication efficiency, MHSC is evaluated through both theoretical analysis and simulation experiments. The results demonstrate that MHSC can improve computational efficiency by 17.66% and communication efficiency by 5.94% on average, offering a scalable and efficient solution for secure data transmission in heterogeneous network slicings.
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: George Washington University, University of Central Florida, University of Greenwich, University of Essex, UK Research and Innovation, Edith Cowan University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Beijing University of Technology, Tsinghua University, King Khalid University, Higher Education Commision, Pakistan, Pakistan Engineering Council, Division of Mathematical Sciences
OpenAlex ID: W4410536380