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Feasibility of Desynchronization Attack in LTE/SAE Networks

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Pranay Agarwal,

Abhinav KumarAuthors Info & Claims

MobiCom '18: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Pages 801 - 803

https://doi.org/10.1145/3241539.3267773

Published: 15 October 2018 Publication History

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The long term evolution/system architecture evolution (LTE/SAE) networks have been shown vulnerable to desynchronization attack. In this attack, the adversary compromises a legitimate evolved NodeB and gains access to the encryption keys. The essential feasibility conditions have not been considered in the existing work. Hence, in this paper, we propose the conditions essential for the occurrence of DA. Through numerical results, we evaluate the feasibility of DA for various network scenarios.

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Feasibility of Desynchronization Attack in LTE/SAE Networks
1. Security and privacy
  1. Network security
    1. Mobile and wireless security

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MobiCom '18: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

October 2018

884 pages

ISBN:9781450359030

DOI:10.1145/3241539

General Chairs:
Rajeev Shorey
TCS Innovation Labs, India
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Rohan Murty
Soroco, USA/India
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Yingying (Jennifer) Chen
WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA
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Kyle Jamieson
Princeton University, USA

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