A Methodology for UICC- Based Security Services in Pervasive Fixed Mobile Convergence Systems

Nowadays, Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) is an emerging worldwide trend in the form of fixed and mobile telephony convergence. In this pervasive environment, security should be considered to be a more important factor than before because the security threats of heterogeneous infrastructures can happen simultaneously. Thus, UICC, the ideal and secure medium embedded on the mobile terminals, has been utilized to provide the security-sensitive services and the service security framework of the mobile terminals. This chapter presents the fundamental and security characteristics of UICC and current practices of UICC-based security services (e.g. banking, stock, network authentication, etc.) in pervasive FMC systems. Moreover, we propose a novel UICC-based service security framework (USF), which implements the essential security functionalities used for FMC services, to provide the integrated security infrastructure and secure FMC services. The USF can be utilized to authenticate users, preserve privacy, and protect network infrastructures and business models of telephony companies.