GSM treats the customers and the equipment in diverse approaches.

IMEI stands for International Mobile Station Equipment Identity, this technology helps in

identifying obsolete, stolen or non-functional equipment which are recognized through a

mobile station internationally. IMSI is International Mobile Subscriber Identity. It contains

customers registered with valid IMEI which is kept in their SIM (Subscriber Identity Module;

hence MSIN (Mobile Subscriber Identification Number) for the subscriber is in the home

mobile network identification number is validated by Mobile Subscriber ISDN Number

(MSISDN) which is connect via mobile station’s telephone number. MSRN stands for

Mobile Station Roaming Number is a mobile station for regionally accountable and VLA is

Visitor Location Register that is assigned for Interim location ISDN number.

The MSRN is having a similar structure as MSISDN through which calls that are incoming is

dispatched to MS. Location Area identifies (LAI) within a PLMN, has its own authentic

LAI .TMSI (Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity) is a service provider of accountable for

the current location. Each mobile station can be assigned with an original key, by the VLR

which is Local Mobile Subscriber Identity (LMSI). This key can be used for each mobile

station within its region as the auxiliary searching key. It helps accelerate the files base

access. When the Global Cell Identity, then it is uniquely stated (LAI + CI) calls are

combined.

GSM maintains the confidentiality of calls and anonymity for end-to-end security by

retaining of the GSM subscriber. The secrecyof any communication system is maintained by

applying the frequency hopping and encrypted algorithms.

How GSM security works:

Mobile Station Validation is a GSM network service provider that validates and identifies

the mechanism through a process of challenge answer. A to mobile subscriber based with

validations algorithms (A3); 128-bit RAND is dispatched where it gets computed in 32-bit

Signed Response (SRES).

This network that continues the estimation upon receiving the SRES from the service

provider verifies the identity of that service provider. This distinct subscriber, as he is the

existing subscriber’s SIM, is never transmitted over the radio channel validation key (Ki),

also the AUC, HLR, and VLR files bases, receives SRES which is matched and has been

successfully validated with the calculated failure to indicate the MS value and to check if MS

is failed and the connection is terminated. This is calculated within the SIM and it now offers

improved security and the estimation of this signed answer is confidential about the IMSI

during the validation process or it never releases from the SIM.