IoT applications are gaining relevance in cellular as well as wireless/satellite networks. So much, that the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) has included a dedicated variant of 4G and 5G technologies in the different standard releases called narrowband IoT (NB-IoT). This technology is also being considered for extension to very-wide-area satellite networks to grant ubiquitous coverage. In this paper, we will show that 3GPP’s NB-IoT as it stands now (release 17 of the standard) intrinsically suffers from certain weaknesses, such as inefficiency and vulnerability to malicious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in the access protocol when it comes to a satellite internet of things (IoT) scenario with very many terminals providing very sporadic information packets.
Vulnerability of 3GPP’s NB-IoT standard in the presence of jamming: The satellite scenario
G. Bacci;M. Luise;
2024-01-01
Abstract
IoT applications are gaining relevance in cellular as well as wireless/satellite networks. So much, that the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) has included a dedicated variant of 4G and 5G technologies in the different standard releases called narrowband IoT (NB-IoT). This technology is also being considered for extension to very-wide-area satellite networks to grant ubiquitous coverage. In this paper, we will show that 3GPP’s NB-IoT as it stands now (release 17 of the standard) intrinsically suffers from certain weaknesses, such as inefficiency and vulnerability to malicious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in the access protocol when it comes to a satellite internet of things (IoT) scenario with very many terminals providing very sporadic information packets.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
