A conceptual architecture of a trusted mobile environment

Abstract

Trust is crucial in mobile communications. How to establish a trusted mobile environment is becoming more and more important for mobile device venders, mobile service providers and mobile networking operators. This paper presents a conceptual architecture towards establishing a trusted mobile environment. The contribution of this paper is a) specifying the architecture of a trusted mobile environment; b) by developing the conceptual architecture, explaining key motivations behind the location of every element in the architecture; and c) evaluating the architecture by applying it into a mobile peer-to-peer system