Future 5g mobile broadband networks using cloud-based services with advanced security and qos framework

Abstract

The work suggests a potential solution to contemporary Corporate and National security concerns, with regards to the use in the future of 5G technologies. In today’s digital age, individuals, groups and some states, (ab)use the easy access to modern technologies to further their economic and political objectives. In these endeavors, among others, these actors utilize jamming attacks (i.e. electronic warfare tactics exclusively used by the military in the past), in order to produce the well-known effect of DoS (Denial of Service). Up to now there is no communication technology that is immune to the jamming attacks, so there is no expectation that the new 5G concept, that is still under development will be fully resistant to well-known traditional jamming and other types of attacks. The proposed Security and Quality of Service (QoS) framework provides high levels of security features and safety, through high-performance mobile broadband networks, using Mobile Cloud computing. It guarantees QoS provisioning for different broadband services, with present jamming, as well as, other types of distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks. Moreover, the trend of integrating various criminal activities in the cyberspace is also presented. The performance of the proposed security and QoS framework is evaluated through simulations and analysis with multimedia traffic, in a heterogeneous mobile broadband Cloud environment with the coexistence of multiple radio technologies.