Impact of mobile botnet on long term evolution networks: a distributed denial of service attack perspective

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dc.contributor.authorKitana, Asem
dc.contributor.supervisorTraore, Issa
dc.contributor.supervisorWoungang, Isaac
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-01T06:15:00Z
dc.date.available2021-04-01T06:15:00Z
dc.date.copyright2021en_US
dc.date.issued2021-03-31
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, the advent of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology as a prominent component of 4G networks and future 5G networks, has paved the way for fast and new mobile web access and application services. With these advantages come some security concerns in terms of attacks that can be launched on such networks. This thesis focuses on the impact of the mobile botnet on LTE networks by implementing a mobile botnet architecture that initiates a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. First, in the quest of understanding the mobile botnet behavior, a correlation between the mobile botnet impact and different mobile device mobility models, is established, leading to the study of the impact of the random patterns versus the uniform patterns of movements on the mobile botnet’s behavior under a DDoS attack. Second, the impact of two base transceiver station selection mechanisms on a mobile botnet behavior launching a DDoS attack on a LTE network is studied, the goal being to derive the effect of the attack severity of the mobile botnet. Third, an epidemic SMS-based cellular botnet that uses an epidemic command and control mechanism to initiate a short message services (SMS) phishing attack, is proposed and its threat impact is studied and simulated using three random graphs models. The simulation results obtained reveal that (1) in terms of users’ mobility patterns, the impact of the mobile botnet behavior under a DDoS attack on a victim web server is more pronounced when an asymmetric mobility model is considered compared to a symmetric mobility model; (2) in terms of base transceiver station selection mechanisms, the Distance-Based Model mechanism yields a higher threat impact on the victim server compared to the Signal Power Based Model mechanism; and (3) under the Erdos-and-Reyni Topology, the proposed epidemic SMS-based cellular botnet is shown to be resistant and resilient to random and selective cellular device failures.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationAsem Kitana, Issa Traore, and Isaac Woungang. Impact Study of a Mobile Botnet over LTE Networks. Journal of Internet Services and Information Security (JISIS), Volume 6, Number 2, Pages 1–22, May 2016.en_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationAsem Kitana, Issa Traore, and Isaac Woungang. Impact of Base Transceiver Station Selection Mechanisms on a Mobile Botnet over a LTE Network. 11th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALWARE11), Fajardo, Puerto Rico, USA, Pages 1–9, October 2016.en_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationAsem Kitana, Issa Traore, and Isaac Woungang. Towards an Epidemic SMS-based Cellular Botnet. Journal of Internet Services and Information Security (JISIS), Volume 10, Number 4, Pages 38–58, November 2020.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12817
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectMobile Botneten_US
dc.subjectLTEen_US
dc.subjectLong Term Evolution Networken_US
dc.subjectDistributed Denial of Service Attacken_US
dc.subjectDDoSen_US
dc.subjectCellular Botneten_US
dc.subjectBotneten_US
dc.subjectCybersecurityen_US
dc.subjectCyber Securityen_US
dc.subjectCyber Attacksen_US
dc.titleImpact of mobile botnet on long term evolution networks: a distributed denial of service attack perspectiveen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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