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5G Security: Concepts and Challenges

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5G Enabled Secure Wireless Networks

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In the near future, the world will experience the 5G technology which is capable of offering many advanced features. As people get a deeper understanding of mobile communication, they also expect a higher level of privacy and security. Communication security involves the delivery of contents to the intended recipients while preventing the unauthorized access in an intelligible form by interceptors. The main objective of this chapter is to explain why security is fundamental to 5G and how it is different from 2G/3G/4G securities in relation to obligations, threats, and solutions. We also focus on physical layer security, which safeguards data confidentiality by exploiting the intrinsic randomness of the communications medium and reaping the benefits offered by the disruptive technologies of 5G. The standards and characteristics of 5G are also discussed in the chapter. The design architecture of the 5G network plan is included to address the challenges perceived. Based upon the experts’ knowledge, the roadmap to 5G is specified in the communication ecosystem. Security needs to be established to not only protect users from the existing threats but also address the rising and emerging threats. There are also many more existing concepts along with the security protocols to improve the resilience of 5G radio access networks. 5G security will have to take a quantum leap to meet the demands of modern society.

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  • 26 April 2019

    The original version of the book was inadvertently published with the incorrect Affiliation of Hema Ganesh Jami. The Affiliation detail has now been corrected from “National Ilan University, Yilan City, Taiwan” to “Veltech Rangarajan Dr.Sagunthala R&D Insititute of Science and Technology,Chennai, India.”.

Abbreviations

AKA:

Authentication and Key Agreement protocol

AMTS:

Advanced mobile telephone system

AN:

Artificial noise

API:

Application programming interface

ASM:

Antenna subset modulation

BC-CM:

Broadcast channel with confidential message

BER:

Bit error rate

BS:

Base station

BYOD:

Bring your own device

CR:

Cognitive radio

DNS:

Domain Name System

DoF:

Degrees of Freedom

EAP:

Edge Automation Platform

eMBB:

Enhanced Mobile Broadband

EPS:

Evolved Packet System

ETCI:

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

ETSI:

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

FDD:

Frequency Division Duplex

FDMA:

Frequency Division Multiple Access

HD:

High Definition

HIP:

Host Identity Protocol

HTTP:

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

IEC:

International Electro-technical Commission

IEEE:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IETF:

Internet Engineering Task Force

IMSI:

International Mobile Subscriber Identity

IMT:

International Mobile Telecommunication

IMTS:

Improved Mobile Telephone System

IP:

Internet Protocol

IPv4:

Internet Protocol version 4

IPv6:

Internet Protocol version 6

IPWAVE:

Internet Protocol Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment

ISO:

International Organization for Standardization

ITU:

International Telecommunication Union

KKT:

Karush-Kuhn-Tucker

LDPC:

Low-density parity check

LTE:

Long-Term Evolution

M2M:

Machine to machine

MA-WC:

Multiple access wiretap channel

MIMO:

Multiple input, multiple output

mmWave:

Millimeter Wave

MPWG:

Mobile Platform Work Group

MTS:

Mobile telephone system

NERC:

North American Electric Reliability Corporation

NOMA:

Non-orthogonal multiple access

NP:

Network planning

ONF:

Open Networking Foundation

PTT:

Push to talk

QoS:

Quality of service

RAN:

Radio access network

RS:

Relay stations

SDO:

Standards Development Organization

SDR:

Software-defined radio

SIC:

Self-interference cancellation

SINR:

Signal-to-interference-noise ratio

TCG:

Trusted Computing Group

TCP:

Transmission Control Protocol

TDD:

Time division duplex

UAV:

Unmanned aerial vehicle

USIM:

Universal Subscriber Identity Module

WG:

Working group

ZFBF:

Zero-forcing beam-forming

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  1. Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India

    Poorna Pravallika Sriram

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University (NIU), Yilan City, Taiwan

    Hwang-Cheng Wang

  3. Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Insititute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India

    Hema Ganesh Jami

  4. School of Information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, TN, India

    Kathiravan Srinivasan

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Sriram, P.P., Wang, HC., Jami, H.G., Srinivasan, K. (2019). 5G Security: Concepts and Challenges. In: Jayakody, D., Srinivasan, K., Sharma, V. (eds) 5G Enabled Secure Wireless Networks . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03508-2_1

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