A Survey of WiMAX and Mobile Broadband Security
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This paper covers the security mechanisms and issues in WiMAX, as well as universal threats to wireless networks. It also examines similar wireless and mobile broadband technologies, WLAN, MBWA, and 3G and the security measures that are taken. Awareness is raised of the current as well as future security implications of an increasingly wireless world.
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