Security and Privacy in Mobile Networks
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Cybersecurity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 2412
Special Issue Editors
2. School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
Interests: network security; network measurement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the first commercial deployment of 2G networks in the 1990s, mobile networks have evolved from 2G/GSM, 3G/UMTS, 4G/LTE to 5G. Each generation of mobile networks introduced new security enhancement. Yet, some fundamental security design flaws in mobile networks remain unaddressed. For example, broadcasting messages in all generations of mobile networks, including the latest 5G networks, lack authenticity, allowing an adversary to impersonate legitimate mobile networks to attack their subscribers. Further, new functional features and architecture evolvement in each generation of mobile networks also introduced new security risks. Particularly, 5G adopted a new architecture for the mobile core networks, namely Service-Based Architecture (SBA), introducing a new set of attacking surfaces. In addition, new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, utilized by 5G to improve network performance and intelligence, also introduce privacy concerns since large amounts of user data are being collected for AI model training, analytics, and security monitoring. Both old and new security and privacy risks in mobile networks need to be addressed to protect this critical global communication infrastructure and billions of mobile subscribers.
This Special Issue aims to present the latest research advances in security and privacy research and standard development of mobile networks. Any topics related to the security and privacy of any components (including user equipment, radio access networks, and core networks) of 4G and 5G networks are welcome.
Dr. Tao Wan
Prof. Dr. Haixin Duan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- 5G security
- LTE security
- privacy
- cellular network security
- mobile network security
- radio access network security
- core network security
- IMS security
- VoLTE security
- VoWiFi security
