Conference paper
Mitigating Denial of Service Threats in GSM Networks
Valer Bocan · Vladimir Crețu
Record
Type
Conference paper
Venue
ARES 2006 — The First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
Pages
523-528
Year
2006
Location
Vienna, Austria
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
ISBN
0-7695-2567-9
Language
English
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Abstract
Mobile networks not only provide great benefits to their users but they also introduce inherent security issues. With respect to security, the emerging risks of denial of service (DOS) attacks will evolve into a critical danger as the availability of mobile networks becomes more and more important for the modern information society. This paper outlines a critical flaw in GSM networks which opens the avenue for distributed denial of service attacks. We propose a way to mitigate the attacks by adding minimal authentication to the GSM channel assignment protocol.
SecurityDenial of serviceAttackWireless networksGSMGPRS2G
Cite
@inproceedings{bocan2006mitigating,
author = {Bocan, Valer and Crețu, Vladimir},
title = {Mitigating Denial of Service Threats in GSM Networks},
booktitle = {ARES 2006 — The First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security},
year = {2006},
pages = {523--528},
address = {Vienna, Austria},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
isbn = {0-7695-2567-9},
doi = {10.1109/ARES.2006.81}
}Related
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