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Signaling storms in mobile networks, which congest the control plane, are becoming more frequent and severe because misbehaving applications can nowadays spread more rapidly due to the popularity of application marketplaces for smartphones. This paper aims to investigate how signaling storms affect both the energy consumption and bandwidth allocation of normal and misbehaving LTE User Equipments (UEs) by constructing a mathematical model which captures the interaction between the UE traffic and the Radio Resource Control state machine and bandwidth allocation mechanism at the eNodeB. Our results show that even if only a small proportion of the UE population is misbehaving, the energy consumption of the radio subsystem of the normal UEs can increase significantly while the time spent actively communicating increases drastically for a normal data session. Moreover, we show that misbehaving UEs have to spend an increasing amount of energy to attack the network when the severity of the signaling storms increases since they also suffer from the attacks.
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The work presented in this paper was supported by the EU FP7 research project NEMESYS (Enhanced Network Security for Seamless Service Provisioning in the Smart Mobile Ecosystem), under grant agreement no. 317888 within the FP7-ICT-2011.1.3 Trustworthy ICT domain.
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Francois, F., Abdelrahman, O.H., Gelenbe, E. (2016). Towards Assessment of Energy Consumption and Latency of LTE UEs During Signaling Storms. In: Abdelrahman, O., Gelenbe, E., Gorbil, G., Lent, R. (eds) Information Sciences and Systems 2015. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 363. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22635-4_4
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