To achieve a secure and fast handover in a distributed mobile communication environment (10), the control functionality is lying at the borderline between wireless and wire-bound communication network elements, and it is proposed to, firstly, execute a mutual authentication between a mobile device (26)...http://www.google.fr/patents/US8027679?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US8027679 - Secure intra- and inter-domain handover