A mathematical theory of communication
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Unwanted traffic in 3G networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
3G Evolution, Second Edition: HSPA and LTE for Mobile Broadband
3G Evolution, Second Edition: HSPA and LTE for Mobile Broadband
LTE: the evolution of mobile broadband
IEEE Communications Magazine
A measurement study of scheduler-based attacks in 3G wireless networks
PAM'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Passive and active network measurement
TrustVisor: Efficient TCB Reduction and Attestation
SP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Multi-cell MIMO cooperative networks: a new look at interference
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on cooperative communications in MIMO cellular networks
Mobile and Wireless Communications for IMT-Advanced and Beyond
Mobile and Wireless Communications for IMT-Advanced and Beyond
The capacity gain from intercell scheduling in multi-antenna systems
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Macroscopic Diversity in Frequency Reuse Radio Systems
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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In today's cellular networks, user equipment (UE) have suffered from low spectral efficiency at cell-edge region due to high interference from adjacent base stations (BSs), which share the same spectral radio resources. In the recently proposed cooperative cellular networks, geographically separated multiple BSs cooperate on transmission in order to improve the UE's signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) at cell-edge region. The service provider of the system dynamically assigns the cluster of BSs to achieve higher SINR for the UE while optimizing the use of system radio resources. Although it is the service provider that makes the the clustering decision for the UE, the service provider relies on the UE's input to the decision; i.e., the channel states from the adjacent BSs to the UE. In essence, the operation of the cooperative cellular netwokrs heavily relies on the trust in the UEs. In this paper, we propose a new selfish attack against the cooperative cellular networks; an adversary reprograms her UE to report fabricated channel information to cause the service provider to make a decision that benefits the adversary while wasting its system resources. We evaluate the proposed attack in a cooperative cellular network having various performance goals on the simulation-based experiments and show that the adversary can trick the service provider into expending 3.7 times more radio resources for the adversary and, accordingly, the adversary achieves up to 16 dB SINR gain. Finally, we propose a threshold-based countermeasure for the service provider to detect the attack with approximately 90% of accuracy.