Starting with a Diameter stack
Going from 2G/3G requires to learn a new set of abbreviations. The network is referred to as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and the HLR becomes Home subscriber server (HSS). ITU ASN1 to define the RPCs (request, response, potential errors), message structure and encoding in 2G/3G is replaced with a set of IETF RFCs. From my point of view names of messages, names of attributes change but the basic broken trust model remains. Having worked on probably the best ASN1/TCAP/MAP stack…