Non-access-stratum request attack in E-UTRAN

Author

Yu, Da ; Wen, Wushao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Software, Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2012

fDate

11-13 Jan. 2012

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

53

Abstract

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the evolution of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). LTE revises and improves system architecture from UMTS to provide services that are more efficient. Evolved-UTRAN (E-UTRAN) is the air interface of 3GPP and it is on the upgrade path for LTE mobile networks. E-UTRAN specifies better security architecture to protect users´ information. However, E-UTRAN is still not perfect. This article studies vulnerabilities of non-access-stratum (NAS) of E-UTRAN. We present illustrative attacks to exploit such vulnerabilities and demonstrate the effectiveness and the impact of such attacks on normal users by using our self-developed simulation tool.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; telecommunication security; 3GPP; E-UTRAN; LTE mobile networks; Long Term Evolution; Universal Mobile Telecommunications System; air interface; non-access-stratum request attack; self-developed simulation tool; 3G mobile communication; Authentication; Computer crime; Mobile computing; Protocols; DoS attack; E-UTRAN; LTE;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing, Communications and Applications Conference (ComComAp), 2012

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1717-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ComComAp.2012.6154001

Filename

6154001