Mitigating Denial of Service Threats in GSM Networks

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First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES'06)

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April 20-April 22

ISBN: 0-7695-2567-9

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	Valer BOCAN, Vladimir CRETU, "Mitigating Denial of Service Threats in GSM Networks," Availability, Reliability and Security, International Conference on, pp. 523-528, First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES'06), 2006.

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	@article{ 10.1109/ARES.2006.81, author = {Valer BOCAN and Vladimir CRETU}, title = {Mitigating Denial of Service Threats in GSM Networks}, journal ={Availability, Reliability and Security, International Conference on}, volume = {0}, year = {2006}, isbn = {0-7695-2567-9}, pages = {523-528}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ARES.2006.81}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - CONF JO - Availability, Reliability and Security, International Conference on TI - Mitigating Denial of Service Threats in GSM Networks SN - 0-7695-2567-9 SP523 EP528 A1 - Valer BOCAN, A1 - Vladimir CRETU, PY - 2006 KW - security KW - denial of service KW - attack KW - wireless networks KW - GSM KW - GPRS KW - 2G VL - 0 JA - Availability, Reliability and Security, International Conference on ER -

Valer BOCAN, Politehnica University of Timisoara

Vladimir CRETU, Politehnica University of Timisoara

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ARES.2006.81

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.

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security, denial of service, attack, wireless networks, GSM, GPRS, 2G

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Valer BOCAN, Vladimir CRETU, "Mitigating Denial of Service Threats in GSM Networks," ares, pp.523-528, First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES'06), 2006

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