Mobile telecommunication networks choice among Ghanaians

Mobile and Wireless Telecommunication Networks

Even though the radio was invented more than 100 years ago, it has not been until 10-15 years ago that widespread use of wireless communications has begun. While before then it was mainly used by police and military, now the capability of communicating without being constrained to a fixed physical location is within everyone’s reach. The booming industry which has been growing at such an astoun...

Management of Mobile Agents in Telecommunication Networks

It should be noted that there are widely varying definitions of the term ̀ agent'. This document will not attempt to provide an authoritative definition, but will mention some qualities shared by most agents and raise some of the inherited problems associated to these concepts. A software agent is a piece of software which acts to accomplish tasks on behalf of its user. Many agents are based on ...

Anonymous roaming in universal mobile telecommunication system mobile networks

A secure roaming protocol for mobile networks is proposed. Roaming has been analysed in some schemes from the security point of view; however, there are vulnerabilities in most of them and so the claimed security level is not achieved. The scheme offered by Wan et al. recently is based on hierarchical identity-based encryption, in which the roaming user and the foreign network mutually authenti...

Novel Techniques for Fraud Detection in Mobile Telecommunication Networks

This paper discusses the status of research on detection of fraud undertaken as part of the European Commission-funded ACTS ASPeCT (Advanced Security for Personal Communications Technologies) project. A first task has been the identification of possible fraud scenarios and of typical fraud indicators which can be mapped to data in toll tickets. Currently, the project is exploring the detection ...

The Role of Ad Hoc Networks in Mobile Telecommunication