A Self-testing Approach Defending against Rogue Base Station Hijacking of Intelligent Terminal

Abstract

The flexibility and convenience offered by mobile communication have made it one of the fastest growing areas of telecommunications, and communication security has become particularly significant and prominent. One of the most challenging security threats is the attack of rogue base station which posing as a radio transceiver station. It uses the same high-power electromagnetic frequencies to occupy the spectrum resources to send large amounts of spam messages. Rogue base station, if undetected, can be an open door to sensitive in-formation. In this paper, we present the process which rogue base station exploits security vulnerabilities to at-tack. Based on the priority handover strategy of channel monitoring in cellular radio system and the SMS which Attention instruction commands MODEM to receive in PDU format, we propose a self-testing approach defending against rogue base station hijacking of intelligent terminal. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the accuracy, effectiveness, and robustness of our approach.