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Secure Personal Networks for IMT-Advanced Connectivity

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The challenge to deliver the next generation of ubiquitous and converged network and service infrastructures for communication, computing and media, has forced research into innovative new directions. New infrastructures must overcome the scalability, flexibility, dependability and security bottlenecks of current ones in order to permit the emergence of dynamic and, pervasive and robust new communication technologies. This paper promotes secure personal networks (PNs) as a key IMT-Advanced technology candidate, in particular, contributing to fulfilling the requirement for global connectivity for IMT-Advanced communications. Advanced PN concepts, such as the PN-Federation can support a number of requirements related to connectivity for the successful adoption of IMT-Advanced systems and services. Introducing intelligence for managing, protecting, processing, and delivering information of mobile communication systems has been identified as the way towards ubiquitous, converged and secure communications. One way to do this is through cognition. This paper discusses an approach and application of intelligence in the context of achieving ubiquitous, converged, and secure communications. Namely, we apply cognitive radio to personal networks for improving IMT-Advanced system and service connectivity. Further, the paper provides an understanding of how best to combine cognition with the current mobile communication systems.

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Mihovska, A., Prasad, R. Secure Personal Networks for IMT-Advanced Connectivity. Wireless Pers Commun 45, 445–463 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-008-9485-2

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