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REPEL: A Strategic Approach for Defending 5G Control Plane From DDoS Signalling Attacks

2020; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 18; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/tnsm.2020.3035342

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Renato S. Silva, Carlos Colman-Meixner, Rafael S. Guimarães, Thierno Diallo, Borja Otura, Luís F. M. de Moraes, Magnos Martinello,

Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting

5G relies on its pervasive and convergent cloud-based architecture to accomplish its futuristic challenge of being the next-generation communication platform. However, the new perspectives opened by 5G networks do not go unnoticed. Regardless of their motivation or objectives, cyberattackers find in the new 5G ecosystem, including its tenancy-driven control plane, an attractive greenfield to create new types of denial of services attacks. In this article, we leverage on the virtualised environment of 5G to propose REPEL – an intelligent resource scaling strategy to mitigate DDoS signalling attacks preserving legitimate traffic. Our prevention-based approach uses games theory to build up a defence front line, able to keep services availability and discourage the attacker. To demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of our approach, we feed a queuing model with parameters obtained from a testbed, where simulated subscribers connect to a virtualised evolved packet core prototype. The final results show a dramatic signalling losses reduction, which can ensure the appropriate control plane availability under a DDoS attack.