A Survey on Security and Privacy of 5G Technologies: Potential Solutions, Recent Advancements, and Future Directions

By Rabia Khan, Pardeep Kumar, Dushantha Nalin. K. Jayakody, Madhusanka Liyanage. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2020

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Security has become the primary concern in many telecommunications industries today as risks can have high consequences. Especially, as the core and enable technologies will be associated with 5G network, the confidential information will move at all layers in future wireless systems. Several incidents revealed that the hazard encountered by an infected wireless network, not only affects the security and privacy concerns, but also impedes the complex dynamics of the communications ecosystem. Consequently, the complexity and strength of security attacks have increased in the recent past making the detection or prevention of sabotage a global challenge. From the security and privacy perspectives, this paper presents a comprehensive detail on the core and enabling technologies, which are used to build the 5G security model; network softwarization security, PHY (Physical) layer security and 5G privacy concerns, among others. Additionally, the paper includes discussion on security monitoring and management of 5G networks. This paper also evaluates the related security measures and standards of core 5G technologies by resorting to different standardization bodies and provide a brief overview of 5G standardization security forces. Furthermore, the key projects of international significance, in line with the security concerns of 5G and beyond are also presented. Finally, a future directions and open challenges section has included to encourage future research.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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The Roadmap to 6G Security and Privacy (2021, background): “There are numerous occasions that SDN may create security threats, such as by exposing critical Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to unintended software, the inception of OpenFlow, and centralizing the network control (i.e., subject to DoS attacks) [12].”
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