July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
14h 19m
English
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336 Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing
The security issues surrounding mobile wireless networks and
applications can be categorized as follows:
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Message confidentiality
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Message integrity
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Message authentication
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Nonrepudiation
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Access control
When discussing differences between security and privacy, we
consider this list to be comprised of security problems, whereas iden-
tity and location anonymity are topics relevant to mobile privacy.
6.1 Security Primer
Let us first consider a typical scenario in a mobile computing
paradigm, where it is possible to use a mobile device (e.g., cell
phone, PDA, smart phone, laptop computer) to access a network ser-
vice using a variety of wireless communication technologies, such
as a wireless local area network ...