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Security in Cellular Networks and Communications

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Cellular Communication has become more and more important in our daily life. The objective of cellular communications has changed from mainly for voice communications as in many years ago, to that mainly for data transmission. The terminal devices for cellular communications also have many more functions other than the functionality for voice communication. Today most cellphones are also personal data assistances (PDAs) as well. Some advanced cellphones are like computers having many applications that used to be for computers. For example, they are able to access the Internet, through which users can conduct a variety of Internet transactions, download and upload data, enjoy on-line entertainment. This is particularly the case in 3G and later generation of networks which are targeted at high speed and wide bandwidth wireless communications. In order to enable sophisticated functionalities in a cellular phone terminal, an operating system is often needed. While a modern and future model of cellphone can give a lot of convenient services to our daily life, it also introduces many security threats, not only threatening the cellphone terminals, but also the cellular communications. This chapter tends to give a primary introduction of common security techniques in cellular communication networks. It is hard to predict what kind of security threats can be encountered in the future.

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Wu, CK. (2013). Security in Cellular Networks and Communications. In: Wireless Network Security. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36511-9_2

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