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Potential Fraudulent Usage in Mobile Telecommunications Networks
April-June 2002 (vol. 1 no. 2)
pp. 123-131
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Yi-Bing Lin, Ming-Feng Chen, Herman C.-H. Rao, "Potential Fraudulent Usage in Mobile Telecommunications Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 123-131, April-June, 2002.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TMC.2002.1038348,
author = {Yi-Bing Lin and Ming-Feng Chen and Herman C.-H. Rao},
title = {Potential Fraudulent Usage in Mobile Telecommunications Networks},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},
volume = {1},
number = {2},
issn = {1536-1233},
year = {2002},
pages = {123-131},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TMC.2002.1038348},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
TI - Potential Fraudulent Usage in Mobile Telecommunications Networks
IS - 2
SN - 1536-1233
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EPD - 123-131
A1 - Yi-Bing Lin,
A1 - Ming-Feng Chen,
A1 - Herman C.-H. Rao,
PY - 2002
KW - Fraudulent usage
KW - GSM
KW - mobile network
KW - mobility management
KW - subscriber identity module (SIM)
KW - Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS).
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Abstract—This paper investigates the fraudulent usage of mobile telecommunications services due to cloned subscriber identity module (SIM). In GSM or Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), a mobile phone or mobile station uses its SIM to gain network access through authentication. If the SIM of a legal user is cloned, then the cloned SIM can be used for GSM/UMTS authentication and fraudulent usage may occur. Under the existing GSM/UMTS mobility management and call setup procedures, we show how quickly the fraudulent usage can be detected. We also propose a simple solution to speed up the detection of potential fraudulent usage.

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Index Terms:
Fraudulent usage, GSM, mobile network, mobility management, subscriber identity module (SIM), Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS).
Citation:
Yi-Bing Lin, Ming-Feng Chen, Herman C.-H. Rao, "Potential Fraudulent Usage in Mobile Telecommunications Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 123-131, April-June 2002, doi:10.1109/TMC.2002.1038348
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