Security for 5G Communications

Μαντάς, Γεώργιος; Komninos, Nikos; Rodrı́guez, Jonathan; Logota, Evariste; Marques, Hugo

doi:10.1002/9781118867464.ch9

Cited by 62 publications

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“…On the other hand, regarding solutions devoted to detecting and mitigating attacks in the cyber security space, several approaches are proposing new ways of dealing with the challenges of 5G networks need to face. For example, a list of potential cyber threats in current networks is presented in [18], including attacks that could also be used to disrupt the operation of future 5G networks. The authors note that botnets, especially the mobile ones, are expected to continue to exist in 5G mobile networks as one of the most powerful cyber threats nowadays [19].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards the autonomous provision of self-protection capabilities in 5G networks

Celdrán¹,

Pérez²,

Clemente³

et al. 2018

J Ambient Intell Human Comput

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5G mobile networks are pushing new dynamic and flexible scenarios that demand the automation and optimization of network management processes. In this sense, Self-Organizing Networks (SON) arose to evolve from traditional manual management towards fully autonomic and dynamic processes. Due to the large volumes of data generated in 5G networks, functionalities and capabilities of SON require efficient processes and resource optimization techniques. In particular, self-protection is a critical capability of SON focused on protecting the network resources in a flexible and autonomic way. To achieve self-protection, SON perform different processes ranging from the monitoring of network communications to the analysis, detection, and mitigation of cyber-attacks. In this article, we propose an architecture that combines the Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technologies to optimize the usage of network resources for monitoring services. A use case based on botnet detection in 5G networks shows how our architecture ensures the provision of monitoring services in managing self-protection scenarios. Additionally, we describe a set of experiments that confirm the best time calculated by our solution to deploy or reconfigure

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards the autonomous provision of self-protection capabilities in 5G networks

Celdrán¹,

Pérez²,

Clemente³

et al. 2018

J Ambient Intell Human Comput

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“…Among relevant works on security concerns over 5G cellular network, Mantas et al [35] surveyed probable threats and attacks against the core modules of 5G cellular networks. The authors also confirmed the four conventional attractive targets in the 4G cellular network: user equipment (UE); access network; the mobile operator’s core network; and external Internet Protocol networks.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Secure and Lightweight Cloud-Assisted Video Reporting Protocol over 5G-Enabled Vehicular Networks

Nkenyereye

Kwon

Choi

2017

Sensors

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In the vehicular networks, the real-time video reporting service is used to send the recorded videos in the vehicle to the cloud. However, when facilitating the real-time video reporting service in the vehicular networks, the usage of the fourth generation (4G) long term evolution (LTE) was proved to suffer from latency while the IEEE 802.11p standard does not offer sufficient scalability for a such congested environment. To overcome those drawbacks, the fifth-generation (5G)-enabled vehicular network is considered as a promising technology for empowering the real-time video reporting service. In this paper, we note that security and privacy related issues should also be carefully addressed to boost the early adoption of 5G-enabled vehicular networks. There exist a few research works for secure video reporting service in 5G-enabled vehicular networks. However, their usage is limited because of public key certificates and expensive pairing operations. Thus, we propose a secure and lightweight protocol for cloud-assisted video reporting service in 5G-enabled vehicular networks. Compared to the conventional public key certificates, the proposed protocol achieves entities’ authorization through anonymous credential. Also, by using lightweight security primitives instead of expensive bilinear pairing operations, the proposed protocol minimizes the computational overhead. From the evaluation results, we show that the proposed protocol takes the smaller computation and communication time for the cryptographic primitives than that of the well-known Eiza-Ni-Shi protocol.

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“…Mantas et al [18] investigated some of the potential threats and attacks against the main components of 5G systems. The authors mainly focus on security issues related to the user equipment, and although they brie y go beyond that, they do not present security issues that open up as a result of SCaaS, NFV, and MEC.…”

Section: State-of-the-artmentioning

confidence: 99%

Security Challenges of Small Cell as a Service in Virtualized Mobile Edge Computing Environments

Panaousis

Mouratidis

2016

Information Security Theory and Practice

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Abstract. Research on next-generation 5G wireless networks is currently attracting a lot of attention in both academia and industry. While 5G development and standardization activities are still at their early stage, it is widely acknowledged that 5G systems are going to extensively rely on dense small cell deployments, which would exploit infrastructure and network functions virtualization (NFV), and push the network intelligence towards network edges by embracing the concept of mobile edge computing (MEC). As security will be a fundamental enabling factor of small cell as a service (SCaaS) in 5G networks, we present the most prominent threats and vulnerabilities against a broad range of targets. As far as the related work is concerned, to the best of our knowledge, this paper is the rst to investigate security challenges at the intersection of SCaaS, NFV, and MEC. It is also the rst paper that proposes a set of criteria to facilitate a clear and e ective taxonomy of security challenges of main elements of 5G networks. Our analysis can serve as a staring point towards the development of appropriate 5G security solutions. These will have crucial e ect on legal and regulatory frameworks as well as on decisions of businesses, governments, and end-users.

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Security for 5G Communications

Cited by 62 publications

References 11 publications

Towards the autonomous provision of self-protection capabilities in 5G networks

Towards the autonomous provision of self-protection capabilities in 5G networks

Secure and Lightweight Cloud-Assisted Video Reporting Protocol over 5G-Enabled Vehicular Networks

Security Challenges of Small Cell as a Service in Virtualized Mobile Edge Computing Environments

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