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The recent explosive growth of mobile data traffic, the continuously growing demand for higher data rates, and the steadily increasing pressure for higher mobility have led to the fifth-generation mobile networks. To this end, network-coding (NC)-enabled mobile small cells are considered as a promising 5G technology to cover the urban landscape by being set up on-demand at any place, and at any time on any device. In particular, this emerging paradigm has the potential to provide significant benefits to mobile networks as it can decrease packet transmission in wireless multicast, provide network capacity improvement, and achieve robustness to packet losses with low energy consumption. However, despite these significant advantages, NC-enabled mobile small cells are vulnerable to various types of attacks due to the inherent vulnerabilities of NC. Therefore, in this paper, we provide a categorization of potential security attacks in NC-enabled mobile small cells. Particularly, our focus is on the identification and categorization of the main potential security attacks on a scenario architecture of the ongoing EU funded H2020-MSCA project “SECRET” being focused on secure network coding-enabled mobile small cells.
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This research work leading to this publication has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016-SECRET-722424.
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Parsamehr, R., Mantas, G., Radwan, A., Rodriguez, J., Martínez, JF. (2019). Security Threats in Network Coding-Enabled Mobile Small Cells. In: Sucasas, V., Mantas, G., Althunibat, S. (eds) Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems. BROADNETS 2018. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 263. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05195-2_33
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