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Overview of The Book
Mobile telecommunications systems have evolved in a stepwise manner. A new cellular radio technology has been designed once per decade. Analogue radio technology was dominant in the 1980s and paved the way for the phenomenal success of cellular systems. The dominant second-generation system GSM was introduced in the early 1990s, while the most successful third-generation system 3G – also known as UMTS, especially in Europe – was brought into use in the first years of the first decade of the new millennium.
At the time of writing, the fourth generation of mobile telecommunications systems is about to be introduced. Its new radio technology is best known under the acronym ‘LTE’ (Long Term Evolution). The complete system is named ‘SAE/LTE’, where ‘SAE’ (System Architecture Evolution) stands for the entire system, which allows combining access using the new, high-bandwidth technology LTE with access using the legacy technologies such as GSM, 3G and HRPD. The technical term for the SAE/LTE system is Evolved Packet System (EPS), and we shall be using this term consistently in the book. The brand name of the new system has been chosen to be LTE, and that is the reason why the title of the book is LTE Security.
With the pervasiveness of telecommunications in our everyday lives, telecommunications security has also moved more and more to the forefront of attention. Security is needed to ensure that the system is properly functioning and to prevent misuse. Security ...
