Wireless Link Routing to Secure Against Fake Base Station in 5G
Sourav Purification, Kyungmin Park, Jinoh Kim, Jonghyun Kim, Sang‐Yoon Chang · 2024
In 5G or 4G telecommunication networking, the base station selection uses a deterministic algorithm to select the highest received signal power which is vulnerable and can lead to the user equipment connecting to a fake base station. We propose a novel wireless link routing concept that enables the user equipment to switch and select a base station with a probability vector to build resistance against fake base station. In a demonstrative simulation with six base stations, one of which is a fake base station, we show that wireless link routing reduces the fake base station attack success rate by 67.11%.