Title
Mitigating DoS Attacks on the Paging Channel by Efficient Encoding in Page Messages.
Abstract
Paging is an important mechanism for network bandwidth efficiency and mobile terminal battery life. It has been widely adopted by mobile networks, such as cellular networks, WiMax, and Mobile IP. Due to certain mechanisms for achieving paging efficiency and the convergence of wireless voice and data networks, the paging channel is vulnerable to inexpensive DoS attacks. To mitigate these attacks, we propose to leverage the knowledge of the user population size, the slotted nature of the paging operation, and the quick paging mechanism to reduce the length of terminal identifiers. In the case of a CDMA2000 system, we can reduce each identifier from 34 bits down to 7 bits, effectively doubling the paging channel capacity. Moreover, our scheme incurs no paging latency, missed pages, or false pages. Using a simulator and data collected from a commercial cellular network, we demonstrate that our scheme doubles the cost for DoS attackers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-05284-2_1
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics, and Telecommunications Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Paging,DoS Attacks,General Page Message,Quick Paging
Mobile IP,Denial-of-service attack,Computer science,Computer network,Communication channel,CDMA2000,WiMAX,Cellular network,Paging,Channel capacity
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
19
1867-8211
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liang Cai1465.01
Gabriel Maganis2988.05
Hui Zang3105277.25
Hao Chen42723183.89