Impact of paging channel overloads or attacks on a cellular network

WiSE 2006 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Wireless Security

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 75-84

  Serror, Jérémy ^a   Hui, Zang ^b   Bolot, Jean C ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b Sprint Advanced Tech Labs

Author keywords

Attack; CDMA; Overload; Paging; Queuing systems

Indexed keywords

ATTACK; OVERLOAD; QUEUING SYSTEMS;

BANDWIDTH; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; INTERNET; PAGING SYSTEMS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SECURITY OF DATA; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247488845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1161289.1161304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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