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| Title: | The Delft UMTS Testbed and End-user Security Features |
| Authors: | Maitland, Carleen - Pennsylvania State University |
| Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | NET Institute Working Paper;03-09 |
| Abstract: | The advent of the UMTS mobile network technology and recent advances in
wireless LANs create new possibilities for network and Internet access.
This in turn may provide the basis for a range of new services, which
itself will change the roles of existing mobile firms and new entrants.
A significant challenge for the industry will be safeguarding user data
and protecting network and end-user equipment from malicious attacks.
These problems are currently the concern of desktop computer users and
network administrators, who are struggling to keep ahead of the latest
security threats. With the distributed nature of mobile devices it is
likely that the management of network and end-user security will only
become more complicated. To better understand this challenge this
research has investigated the security features of a UMTS network
testbed as well as the possibilities of integration with WLANs at Delft
University of Technology in the Netherlands. In particular this research
addresses the following questions from a user perspective: 1. What
security features are theoretically available in UMTS handsets and are
likely to be offered by UMTS network operators? 2. What factors are
likely to influence end user acceptance of these features? 3. What role
does security play in UMTS/ WLAN integration? In addition to addressing
these questions this research also provided an opportunity to observe
certain aspects of the relationship between the network operator and
equipment manufacturer and handset providers, as well as the role of
standards in the diffusion of a new technology. In what follows we first
describe the Delft UMTS testbed. This description provides the context
of the research as well as its limitations in terms of generalizability
of results. This is followed by our findings, which are divided into
security, industry relations and standards, and handset issues. Section
4 presents our conclusions and the report concludes with a series of
appendices, which contain detailed information about UMTS standards and
security features, WLAN technologies and WLAN & cellular network integration. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/28387 |
| Appears in Collections: | NET Institute Working Papers Series
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