Empowerment: Enabler for Personalized Security and Privacy

Personal Networks - is prominent network architecture in realization of the next generation wireless communication systems due its built-in user-centriness. As end-users most often desire control, having strong privacy constrains and technology-oriented approaches are not often usable. The engineers should think their solutions as a white box, not as a black-box solution, of which the end-user sees only the input and the output. This paper highlights the empowerment as an essential tool-box in building end-user trust for personalized security and privacy solution and thus speeding up the use of the 4G networks.