DDoS Attacks in Experimental LTE Networks

Abstract

The infamous distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattack in which attackers aim to disrupt normal services provided by one or more servers over the Internet based on distributed resources have been deeply investigated. However, the impacts on the recent popular LTE networks remain an open issue and becomes the main target of this paper. We implement the different types of existing DDoS attacks against volume, protocols, and applications in experimental 4G LTE networks. In particular, the attack is developed on the rooted Android mobile phone and the targeted networks build by using OpenAirInterface (OAI) platform. An additional monitoring module is included to capture the packets, payloads, and patterns generated from attacks. The evaluated results show that the existing IP-based DDoS attack can be successfully launched and cause significant amount of traffic volume to the experimental networks.