Survey of network access security in UMTS/LTE networks

Author

Caragata, Daniel ; El Assad, Safwan ; Ahmad, Kassem

Author_Institution

Dept. Electron., Carrera Telematica, Univ. Tec. Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

46

Abstract

Mobile communications have known an impressive development in recent years, and are characterized by a trend towards broadband communications and extremely diverse applications. For some of these applications, such as financial transactions, shopping or online social networks, security is of extreme importance. This paper presents a survey of the most important and most vulnerable part of the security of wireless networks: network access. The study includes the protocols used by UMTS and LTE standards as well as some of the latest protocols proposed in the literature.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; radio networks; telecommunication security; telecommunication standards; LTE standards; UMTS standards; UMTS-LTE networks; broadband communications; mobile communications; network access; network access security; wireless network security; 3G mobile communication; Authentication; Cryptography; Mobile computing; Protocols; LTE; UMTS; mobile communications; network access; security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST), 2014 9th International Conference for

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICITST.2014.7038772

Filename

7038772