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Fair and Secure Mobile Billing Systems

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In the current mobile communication networks, there is no undeniable evidence for calling information in the billing systems. Chen, Jan and Chen proposed a billing system by introducing a trusted third party—Observer and exploiting a hash chain mechanism. In this paper, we first identify some vulnerabilities in their mobile billing system. Then, we propose a fair and secure billing system based on a proper combination of digital signature and hash chain mechanism. The proposed system can achieve authentication, non-repudiation, and fairness, which are desirable security requirements for an undeniable mobile billing system. It is very efficient and applicable not only to the current GSM, but also to the 3GSM.

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  1. Shanghai Academy of Quality Management, 258 Wuyi Road, Shanghai, 200050, China

    Shiqun Li

  2. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

    Guilin Wang

  3. Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, 119613, Singapore

    Jianying Zhou

  4. Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200030, China

    Kefei Chen

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Li, S., Wang, G., Zhou, J. et al. Fair and Secure Mobile Billing Systems. Wireless Pers Commun 51, 81–93 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-008-9602-2

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