Title :
A Biologically Inspired Framework for Mitigating Epidemic and Pandemic Attacks in the NGMN
Author :
Hashim, Fazirulhisyam ; Munasinghe, Kumudu S. ; Jamalipour, Abbas
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
This paper proposes a security control framework for mitigating epidemic and pandemic network attacks in Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) by adopting several interesting principles from the human immune system (HIS) and the field of epidemiology. In particular, the proposed framework incorporates two key components: namely, the attack localization process and the attack recovery process. While the former administers the autonomous attack mitigation process and the security updates procedure, the latter accommodates a last line of defense (in the form of quarantine and rate limiting) for preventing repeated attacks on the NGMN. Performance evaluation indicates that the proposed security control framework is efficient in restricting both epidemic and pandemic attacks, and effective in alleviating the impact of the attacks on the network, thereby enhancing the survivability of the NGMN.
Keywords :
mobile radio; telecommunication security; attack localization; attack recovery; autonomous attack mitigation; biologically inspired framework; epidemic network attack; epidemiology; human immune system; next generation mobile network; pandemic network attack; security control framework; security updates procedure; Australia; Biological control systems; Communication system control; Communication system security; Communications Society; Control systems; Humans; Immune system; Influenza; Next generation networking;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6396-1
DOI :
10.1109/WCNC.2010.5506116