Towards a coherent approach to third generation system security

This paper provides an overview of a systematic approach to the definition of 3G security features. This is followed by a review of the disparate security technologies that may be employed in 3G systems. Some properties of a coherent 3G system security architecture are then identified. The paper does not define a coherent security architecture for the 3G environment, rather it gives some guidelines as to how this might be done and to the size of the task.