With the emergence of 5G networks and their large scale applications such as IoT and autonomous vehicles, telecom operators are increasingly offloading the computation closer to customers (i.e., on the edge). Such edge-core environments usually involve ...

Despite the widespread deployment of 5G technologies, there exists a critical gap in security testing for 5G Standalone (SA) devices. Existing methods, largely manual and labor-intensive, are ill-equipped to fully uncover the state of security in the ...

As 5G is currently being rolled out, security considerations for this critical infrastructure are getting more into focus. Hereby, the security investigation of the 5G core as the central element plays a pivotal role. The structure of the core is based ...

The proliferation of cellular networks has become instrumental in the implementation of road safety applications due to the extensive penetration rate of this technology among road users and its promise to reduce message exchange latency times. Among ...

In recent years, Internet traffic has grown constantly, and new high-throughput applications have been introduced and widely used by mobile users. This has necessitated improvements in the access networks and transport protocols. Beyond 5G and 6G (B5G/...

Recent technological and regulatory changes are paving the way to enable decentralized, zero-trust mobile network. Properly secured decentralization allows or improves "inherently distributed'' use cases such as military coalition mobile networks ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly expanding field, with billions of devices now online. This expansion has increased demand for efficient and dependable wireless sensor connectivity. A new method for reducing wireless sensor connectivity time in ...

There have been many papers that show the physical layer advantages of beamforming. However, to the best of our knowledge, none have dealt with the large-scale network level performance evaluation. While it is clear that beamforming brings a positive ...

Locating at-risk workers in hospitals using legacy private 5G networks is a daunting task that involves solving the problem of indoor localization using commercial off-the-shelf proprietary hardware. Currently, no full-stack schemes or realistic indoor ...

The emergence of 5G Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) has made it the predominant technology for enabling Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications. As a result, this has created an opportunity for telecommunications service providers to leverage ...

Classification of modulation of Wi-Fi~6 and 5G downlink (DL) user data signals for spectrum sensing is studied. First, the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol duration and cyclic prefix (CP) length are estimated based on the cyclic ...

Mobile augmented reality (MAR) achieves immersive real-time experiences by offloading computation-intensive computer vision tasks. 5G NR (5G) networks and edge computing enable optimised latency and enhanced throughput for MAR offloading. However, ...

After 4 years of rapid deployment in the US, 5G is expected to have significantly improved the performance and overall user experience of mobile networks. However, recent measurement studies have focused either on static performance or a single aspect (...

4G, 5G, and smart city networks often rely on microwave and millimeter-wave x-haul links. A major challenge associated with these high frequency links is their susceptibility to weather conditions. In particular, precipitation may cause severe signal ...

Up-to-date and accurate prediction of Channel State Information (CSI) is of paramount importance in Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC), specifically in dynamic environments where unpredictable mobility is inherent. CSI can be meticulously ...

With the development of Radio Frequency (RF) massive Multiple Inputs-Multiple Outputs (MIMO) array systems for Beyond 5G (B5G) applications, real-time DOA estimation has become challenging due to large antenna architectures producing a staggering amount ...

Security flaws and vulnerabilities in cellular networks lead to severe security threats given the data-plane services that are involved, from calls to messaging and Internet access. While the 5G Standalone (SA) system is currently being deployed ...

Mobile networks have grown in size and relevance, with novel applications in areas including transportation, finance, and health. The wide use of mobile networks generates rich data about users, raising interest in using such data for law enforcement ...

5G introduces a series of new security features that overcome known issues of the previous mobile generations. One of these features is integrity protection for user plane data. While this addition protects against manipulations like DNS spoofing, it ...

5G cellular systems are slowly being deployed worldwide delivering the promised unprecedented levels of throughput and latency to hundreds of millions of users. At such scale security is crucial, and consequently, the 5G standard includes a new series ...