Advances in hardware manufacturing technology, wireless communications, micro electro-
mechanical devices and information processing technologies enabled the development of …

Since the 1G of mobile technology, mobile wireless communication systems have continued
to evolve, bringing into the network architecture new interfaces and protocols, as well as …

This paper presents a domain-specific threat-modeling framework for the cellular mobile
networks. We survey known attacks against mobile communication and organize them into …

In this Chapter we give an overview of statistical methods for anomaly detection (AD),
thereby targeting an audience of practitioners with general knowledge of statistics. We focus …

Mobile networks are vulnerable to signaling attacks and storms that are caused by traffic
patterns that overload the control plane, and differ from distributed denial of service attacks …

Telecommunication networks are crucial in today's society since critical socio-economical
and governmental functions depend upon them. High availability requirements, such as the" …

We review the characteristics of signalling storms that have been caused by certain common
apps and recently observed in cellular networks, leading to system outages. We then …

Mobile malware and mobile network attacks are becoming a significant threat that
accompanies the increasing popularity of smart phones and tablets. Thus in this paper we …

DNS amplification has been instrumental in over 34% of high-volume network DDoS attacks,
with some floods exceeding 300 Gbps. Today's best practices require Internet-wide …

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is seen as the key enabler for delivering the fourth generation of
mobile broadband and is the first cellular network primarily designed based on IP. Thus …