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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2015
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Marcus Wong, Greenbrook, NJ (US);
Zhibi Wang, Woodridge, IL (US);
FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
The disclosure relates to technology for provisioning out-of-network user equipment with a network relay in a communications network. The network relay device receives an authentication key request message from user equipment including a user equipment identity and an authentication server identity, and communicates the authentication key request message to an authentication server having the authentication server identity. The network relay device communicates a relay authentication key response received from the authentication server to the user equipment such that a secure communication is established between the user equipment and the network. A relay authentication key is generated during establishment of the secure communication between the user equipment and authentication server, and a session with the user equipment is authenticated using a session key generated by the user equipment based on the relay authentication key. The user equipment is the authenticated with the network relay device and provisioned.