Basic Design of a User-Driven Service Creation Platform Assisted by Cellular Systems

In spite of recent advances of personal communication devices and access network technology, users are still facing the issues such as high device maintenance costs, complication of inter-device cooperation, illegal access to devices, and leakage of personal information. Consequently, it is difficult for users to securely construct a network with local as well as remote personal devices. We propose a User-driven Service Creation Platform (USCP), which enables users to construct a secure private network in a simple and intuitive way, making the most of the authentication mechanism in cellular networks. USCP separates signaling and data paths in a flat structure of a virtual network topology. In this paper, we describe the basic design of USCP.