Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: GSM Security Issues and Challenges

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"GSM Security Issues and Challenges"
by S. Muhammad Siddique, Muhammad Amir
in the Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD'06), pp.413-418, June 2006.

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The text was paraphrased, and was not clearly referenced or specifically identified.

"Security in the GSM System"
by Jeremy Quirke
in a paper prepared by Sector Forensics for AUSMOBILE, May 2004

"A Contemporary Foreword on GSM Security"
by Paulo S. Pagliusi
in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2437, Springer, January 2002, pp 129-144


This paper addresses the current GSM security system. It presents the terminology, operation including principals and features. It also discusses the flaws and weaknesses of GSM security algorithms in the light of attacks already made on these algorithms. This paper primarily reviews the security solutions implemented in this area for further applications.