Security attacks against the availability of LTE mobility networks: Overview and research directions

International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, WPMC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jover, Roger Piqueras ^a  

^a ATandT Security Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENIAL OF SERVICE; DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (M2M); MOBILITY NETWORKS; POTENTIAL RESEARCHES; SECURITY CONTEXT; SECURITY STUDIES;

COMPUTER CRIME; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84887468905     PISSN: 13476890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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