PHYSICAL LAYER TECHNIQUES TO MITIGATE THE HANDOVER PROCESS VULNERABILITIES

    公开(公告)号:US20230095401A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17483912

    申请日:2021-09-24

    Abstract: An apparatus and system to mitigate non-genuine handovers are described. The handovers include handovers based on fake measurements and handovers to malicious cells. To mitigate these, a mitigation procedure is initiated when excessive handovers are detected. Location information obtained from the UE, estimation of PHY layer properties by the serving and/or target cell, or AI modeling of the best serving cell at the UE location is used to determine whether the handover is valid. If not, the handover is canceled and the UE is stopped from initiating new handovers for a specified time, the UE may be instructed to perform re-authentication with the network, and/or the serving cell recommends to the network authentication entity to revoke the UE authentication. To ensure that the target cell is legitimate, an AI model is used to classify the target cell as known/unknown and the result sent to the network in NAS signaling.

    SYSTEM ACQUISITION MECHANISM FOR FIXED DEVICES IN MOBILE BROADBAND NETWORKS

    公开(公告)号:US20190045340A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-07

    申请号:US16046862

    申请日:2018-07-26

    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a fixed device synchronizes with a downlink channel of a network, acquires a master information block including a last system update time; and executes cell selection without acquiring other system information if the last system update time is before the last system access time. Furthermore, the fixed device may listen only for system information block messages that it needs, and ignore other system information blocks. A bitmap may indicate which system information block messages should be listed to for fixed devices, and which may be ignored. In some embodiments, one or more system information blocks may be designated for fixed devices.

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