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Authentication Services in Mobile Networks

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Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) technologies arewidely considered to be the key to the growth of e-commerce. Mobilenetwork operators may be one of the first to offer such services thanksto a number of advantages. They will face some issues, however, if theyattempt to launch AAA services for e-commerce. This paper introducessome of the issues including ID mappings, certificate validation, security awareness, andenvironments. Some of the solutions for these issues are also discussed.

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  1. Research and Development Planning Department, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Sanno Park Tower 39th Floor 11-1, Nagata-cho 2-chome Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, 100-6150, Japan

    Etsuo Kawada

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Kawada, E. Authentication Services in Mobile Networks. Wireless Personal Communications 22, 237–243 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019972607764

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