Secure Reconfiguration in Future Mobile Communication Systems

Reconfiguration is the subject of many investigative activities performed by industrial consortia and collaborative research projects. In the IST End-to-End Reconfigurability (E 2 R) project [1], a perspective on reconfiguration is taken which is not restricted to terminals, but also takes network aspects of architecture into account. Reconfiguration will only be accepted and hence become a success in the market if the security requirements of all stakeholders are satisfied adequately. Secure reconfiguration involves device protection, secure download to defend against potentially malicious software and secure reconfiguration signalling to prevent manipulation of the reconfiguration process.