US 12,284,518 B2
UE onboarding and provisioning using one way authentication
Abhijeet Ashok Kolekar, Hillsboro, OR (US); Alexandre Saso Stojanovski, Paris (FR); and Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde, Hillsboro, OR (US)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/570,631.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/135,436, filed on Jan. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0330022 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 12/069 (2021.01); H04W 4/50 (2018.01); H04W 12/71 (2021.01); H04W 60/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 12/069 (2021.01) [H04W 4/50 (2018.02); H04W 12/71 (2021.01); H04W 60/00 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for a user equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising:
processing circuitry configured to, during initial access to an onboarding Stand-alone Non-Public Network (O-SNPN) via an access and mobility function (AMF):
select the O-SNPN;
determine whether subscriber identifier privacy is to be used during onboarding with the O-SNPN;
in response to a determination that subscriber identifier privacy is to be used during the onboarding with the O-SNPN, set a UE identity to an anonymous value;
encode, for transmission to the O-SNPN after selection of the O-SNPN, a registration request that includes an indication of registration of the UE for onboarding and UE information that includes a default UE credential;
decode, from the O-SNPN, an O-SNPN certificate in response to the registration request; and
authenticate the O-SNPN using one way authentication based on the O-SNPN certificate, the UE provisioned with a set of roots of trust certificate information to authenticate the O-SNPN using the O-SNPN certificate; and
a memory configured to store the UE information.