First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES'06) Mitigating Denial of Service Threats in GSM Networks Vienna, Austria April 20-April 22 ISBN: 0-7695-2567-9
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.
Index Terms:
security, denial of service, attack, wireless networks, GSM, GPRS, 2G
Citation:
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 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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