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Mitigating for Signalling Attacks in UMTS Networks

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The setup of connections in mobile UMTS network will trigger signalling messages between the mobile and the core network. Malicious mobile phone or defective applications can therefore trigger Signalling Attacks which result in excessive wireless bandwidth utilisation and workload for the control plane and core network. We overview the cause of these attacks and identify the parameters which play a role.

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  1. Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

    Mihajlo Pavloski & Erol Gelenbe

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  1. Polish Academy of Sciences, Gliwice, Poland

    Tadeusz Czachórski

  2. Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    Erol Gelenbe

  3. Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    Ricardo Lent

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Pavloski, M., Gelenbe, E. (2014). Mitigating for Signalling Attacks in UMTS Networks. In: Czachórski, T., Gelenbe, E., Lent, R. (eds) Information Sciences and Systems 2014. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09465-6_17

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