There are currently more than four billion cellular subscribers in the world, and this number is constantly growing. With this in mind, it should be clear that the use of mobile communication has already become a pervasive and ubiquitous global commodity.

Entity Authentication and Personal Privacy in Future Cellular Systems explains and examines access security as it is found in mobile/cellular systems. It conducts a thorough investigation of how access security and personal privacy is handled in the 3GPP system. This includes both the 2G systems GSM/GPRS and the 3G system...