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With its higher bandwidth and lower latency, the LTE/LTE-A network has been successively deployed worldwide, leading to many changes in peoples' lifestyles over the years. Recently, as new demands on the cellular network have appeared from emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, latency reduction has become a key challenge to supporting emerging technologies and satisfying user expectations...
Satellite transmission based on IP may play important role for communication between event site and PPDR centers during large planned scenarios and disaster/unplanned ones. Geostationary SATCOM links that can be installed ad-hoc in any location present reliable and efficient way to transmit IP data even for voice communication based on VoIP. Using different mechanisms that handle multi connections...
User location tracking attacks using cellular networks have been known since 2008. In 2014, several Signalling System No 7 (SS7) protocol based location tracking attacks were demonstrated, which particularly targeted the cellular roaming in GSM networks. Currently, the mobile network operators are in a gradual process of upgrading to Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, in addition to replacing SS7...
The vision of the Fifth generation (5G) of mobile communication is that it will be an umbrella for communications for various vertical industries that have different requirements for delay, data rates, reliability, availability, and security. 5G will not be a single technology — rather a convergence of not just new revolutionary technologies, but of the already existing, and evolving technologies...
To support voice calls vital to mobile users and carriers, 4G LTE cellular networks adopt two solutions: VoLTE (Voice Over LTE) and CSFB (Circuit-Switched FallBack). In this paper, we disclose that both schemes are harmful to mobile users from a security perspective. The adoption of the latest VoLTE allows an attacker to manipulate the radio resource states of the victim's device in a silent call...
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) introduces a vast ecosystem of new network-enabled objects. Although most current cellular IoT services run over 2G and 3G cellular networks, the Long Term Evolution (LTE) is expected to be one of the main platforms for the emergence of new Machine to Machine (M2M) communication systems. Cellular communication protocols were designed and optimized to handle...
The security of handover key management in Long Term Evolution (LTE) /System Architecture Evolution (SAE) has been a popular topic in recent years. In this paper we first describe the security architecture and key hierarchy of LTE/SAE, clarifying security requirements of key management in handover. Next, we analyze security of key management in X2 handover (intra-MME handover), and point out the current...
LTE (Long Term Evolution) is the latest cellular communications standard to provide advanced mobile services that go beyond traditional voice and short messaging traffic. Mobility networks are experiencing a drastic evolution with the advent of Machine to Machine (M2M) systems and the Internet of Things (IoT), which is expected to result in billions of connected devices in the near future. In parallel,...
Femtocell, a small cellular base station in home and small business environment, is an attractive solution for operators to improve indoor coverage and network capacity in 3G networks. However, there are technical problems due to its mass deployment. The paper presents a femtocell architecture for LTE and investigates different handover scenarios. Two mobility management schemes at radio network layer...
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