A Survey of Security Threats on 4G Networks

Author

Park, Yongsuk ; Park, Taejoon

Author_Institution

Commun. & Networking Lab., Samsung Adv. Inst. of Technol., Seoul

fYear

2007

fDate

26-30 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Many communication societies such as ITU and IEEE are working on 4^th generation (4G) communication. This paper provides an overview of standardization activities focusing on the network security architectures and a survey of security threats on 4G networks. Our survey shows that a number of new security threats to cause unexpected service interruption and disclosure of information will be possible in 4G due mainly to the fact that 4G is an IP-based, heterogeneous network. We also found there still remain several open issues although many are working on fixing and/or designing new security architectures for 4G.

Keywords

4G mobile communication; telecommunication security; 4G networks; 4th generation communication; IEEE; IP-based, heterogeneous network; ITU; network security architectures; security threats; standardization activities; Bandwidth; Communication system security; Conferences; Information security; Microwave generation; Mobile communication; Next generation networking; Protection; Radio access networks; WiMAX; 3GPP; 4G; NGMN; NGN; WiMAX; network security; security architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Globecom Workshops, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2024-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOMW.2007.4437813

Filename

4437813