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Design and Optimize Firewall for Mobile Networks

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Overview More and more activities (such as e-commerce, e-learning, e-chat, etc.) rely on mobile devices. It becomes an important issue on how to protect mobile users engaged in mobile services. Firewall is one of the security solutions. Unfortunately, the conventional firewalls are inappropriate for mobile networks because of the limited computing and communication capabilities of mobile devices. This paper introduces the issues to be considered in designing a mobile firewall and compare two existing mobile firewall solutions. Then it evaluates the performance of a mobile firewall, and finally proposes an optimized mobile firewall scheme.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Institute for Infocomm Research	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	Firewalls, Security Tools, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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