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A roaming-based denial of service attack on LTE networks: poster

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Moreno Ambrosin,

Stefano Cecconello,

Mauro Conti,

Daniele LainAuthors Info & Claims

WiSec '17: Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

Pages 283 - 284

https://doi.org/10.1145/3098243.3106027

Published: 18 July 2017 Publication History

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During the last ten years, mobile communications greatly evolved. Along this process, the main goal was to satisfy users' needs such as coverage, communication speed, and availability. However, less attention has been posed to prevent attacks such as Denial of Service (DoS), which aim to render the mobile network unserviceable.

In this paper, we present a novel method to implement a distributed DoS attack on a target mobile operator's Control Network. We exploit the lack of coordination between local and remote components of the LTE network during the roaming authentication process to realize a pulse DoS using temporal lensing. Finally, we discuss the feasibility of our attack on future 5G networks.

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WiSec '17: Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

July 2017

297 pages

ISBN:9781450350846

DOI:10.1145/3098243

General Chair:
Guevara Noubir
Northeastern University
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Program Chairs:
Mauro Conti
University of Padua, Italy
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Sneha Kumar Kasera
University of Utah

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