Sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks will have to cope with diverse threats on a space-air-
ground integrated network environment, novel technologies, and an accessible user …

After implementing 5G technology, academia and industry started researching 6th
generation wireless network technology (6G). 6G is expected to be implemented around the …

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the latest mobile communication standard and has a pivotal
role in our information society: LTE combines performance goals with modern security …

In this paper, we investigate the security and privacy of the three critical procedures of the
4G LTE protocol (ie, attach, detach, and paging), and in the process, uncover potential …

The paper proposes 5GReasoner, a framework for property-guided formal verification of
control-plane protocols spanning across multiple layers of the 5G protocol stack. The …

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The cellular paging (broadcast) protocol strives to balance between a cellular device's
energy consumption and quality-of-service by allowing the device to only periodically poll for …

Long Term Evolution (LTE/4G) establishes mutual authentication with a provably secure
Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) protocol on layer three of the network stack …

Over the last decades, numerous security and privacy issues in all three active mobile
network generations have been revealed that threaten users as well as network providers. In …

In mobile networks, IMSI-Catchers identify and track users simply by requesting all users'
permanent identities (IMSI) in range. The 5G standard attempts to fix this issue by encrypting …