Abstract
This paper analyzes the impact of encryption over the UMTS air interface. Using a finite state Markov characterization of the UMTS decryption process, a stochastic model has been developed that quantifies the impact of bit errors in the ciphertext and cipher synchronization counter. The effects of residual bit errors, UMTS air interface power budget, interleaving span and channel coding rate on the decryption process are analyzed.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Ferland, G., Chouinard, J.-Y.: Error Rate Performance Analysis of Stream and Block Ciphers in a Digital Mobile Communication Channel. In: 1992 Vehicle Navigation and Information Systems Conference (VNIS 1992), Oslo, Norway, pp. 426–433 (1992)
Reason, J.: End-to-end Confidentiality for Continuous-media Applications in Wireless Systems, Doctoral Dissertation. UC Berkeley (2000)
3GPP Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects, 3G Security: Specification of the 3GPP Confidentiality and Integrity Algorithms; Document 1: f8 and f9 Specification, 3GPP TS 35.201 V6.0.0 (2004)
3GPP Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects, 3G Security: Specification of the 3GPP Confidentiality and Integrity Algorithms; Document 2: KASUMI Specification, 3GPP TS 35.202 V6.0.0 (2004)
3GPP Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network: Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol specification, 3GPP TS 25.321 V6.3.0 (2004)
3GPP Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network: Radio Link Control (RLC) protocol specification, 3GPP TS 25.322 V6.2.0 (2004)
3GPP Security Algorithms Group of Experts (SAGE): Report on the Evaluation of 3GPP Standard Confidentiality and Integrity Algorithms (SAGE version 2.0), 3GPP KASUMI Evaluation Report (2001)
Webster, A.F., Tavares, S.E.: On the design of S-boxes. In: Williams, H.C. (ed.) CRYPTO 1985. LNCS, vol. 218, pp. 523–534. Springer, Heidelberg (1986)
Ochi, M.K.: Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes in Engineering and Physical Sciences. John Wiley and Sons Inc., Chichester (1992)
Poppe, F., De Vleeschauwer, D., Petit, G.H.: Guaranteeing Quality of Service to Packetised Voice over the UMTS Air Interface. In: Proceedings of the Eight International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2000), Pittsburgh (2000)
Nanda, S., Rege, K.M.: Frame Error Rates for Convolutional Codes on Fading Channels and the Concept of Effective Eb/No. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 47(4), 1245–1250 (1998)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Sattar, F., Mufti, M. (2008). On Modeling Post Decryption Error Processes in UMTS Air Interface. In: Pei, D., Yung, M., Lin, D., Wu, C. (eds) Information Security and Cryptology. Inscrypt 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4990. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79499-8_40
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79499-8_40
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-79498-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-79499-8
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)