Chapter List

Part Overview

The six chapters in Part II are concerned with provision of security for the mobile network itself.

In the brief history of mobile telecommunications, security has traditionally meant securing the radio path between the mobile phone and the local base station. The evolution of this security from the provisions in GSM to UMTS is covered in Chapter 6, UMTS security. This chapter presents a detailed description of the security facilities protecting the UMTS access network, within a context that explains the evolution from GSM. The chapter also describes the security provisions for UMTS internal network security, something not covered by previous mobile standards (notably GSM). This leads into a discussion of the use of IP security facilities for multimedia session control, exemplifying the growing convergence between mobile telecommunications and the Internet.

The issue of security of access to networks is continued in Chapters 7 and 8, which look at possible future developments in this area. Chapter 7 is concerned with a variety of architectural approaches to providing access security, whereas Chapter 8 focuses, in particular, on approaches based on public key cryptography. Both these chapters are based firmly on the results of the EU-funded project SHAMAN.

Work within SHAMAN...