Authentication Services in Mobile Networks

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.