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The advent of 5G technology introduces significant advancements in speed, latency, and device connectivity, but also poses complex security challenges. Among typical denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, jamming attack can severely degrade network performance by interfering critical communication channels. To address this issue, we propose a novel security solution utilizing multipath communication, which distributes message segments across multiple paths to ensure message recovery even when some paths are compromised. This strategy enhances network resilience and aligns with zero-trust architecture principles. Moreover, the proposed scheme has been implemented in our testbed to validate the concept and assess the network performance under jamming attacks. Our findings demonstrate that this method eliminates the negative impacts caused by DoS attacks, maintaining the integrity and availability of critical network services. The results highlight the robustness of multipath communication in securing 5G networks against sophisticated attacks, thereby safeguarding essential communications in dynamic and potentially hostile environments.
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Resilient Optical Networks
Networking resilience is the ability to provide and maintain an acceptable level of service, albeit potentially degraded from nominal, in the face of faults and challenges to normal, including adversarial attacks. This paper explores the concept of resilient optical networks and scopes the important issues to be addressed in a sensible architecture. The solution includes monitoring and probing to determine the states of potentially unreliable network substrates, assessment of resilient network operating regimes, isolation of compromised assets, deployment of mitigation measures that may require communication over unreliable substrates and suggestions for resilient architecture design and improvement. The architecture construct evolves around a robust control plane that uses cognitive techniques to assess network states and automatically reacts to the on-set of impairments and attacks involving all the network layers from the Physical Layer to the Application Layer.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1717199
- PAR ID:
- 10067804
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
- ISSN:
- 2162-7339
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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