Signalling Storms and Taylor’s Law

Autorzy Gelenbe E.; Abdelrahman O.
Tytuł Signalling Storms and Taylor’s Law
Czasopismo 33rd International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Paris, France
Status In Press
Abstrakt <p>Signalling storms have occurred in several generations<br />
of mobile networks due to malevolent end users, as well as<br />
a consequence of service disruptions and system failures. Due to<br />
the massive increase in the volume of traffic and the diversity of<br />
end users and applications in 6G, including the massive access of<br />
the Internet of Things, signalling storms and other cyberattacks<br />
will require attention with research on adequate detection and<br />
mitigation schemes, as we move towards the next generation of<br />
mobile networks. Thus, in the present paper, we conduct discrete<br />
event simulations of a signalling storm, measure its effects in a<br />
simulated environment, and observe that it results in deviations<br />
from the well-known and naturally observed statistical property<br />
known as “Taylor’s Law”. We then discuss a mathematical model<br />
of storms, linking the fraction of malevolent or malfunctioning<br />
users to the rate of call establishment requests, and show that<br />
the mathematical model also exhibits a violation of Taylor’s<br />
Law. Since the detection of cyberattacks from network behaviour<br />
parameters is a challenging problem, we suggest that the violation<br />
of Taylor’s Law may be a useful tool for designing detectors for<br />
signalling attacks, or other network attacks or malfunctions.<br />
Index Terms—Attack Detection and Mitigation, 6G, Signalling<br />
Attacks, Taylor’s Law<br />
&nbsp;</p>
Wydawca IEEE
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