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AutoSec-RAN: Specification-Grounded LLM Fine-Tuning for Automated Security Analysis of O-RAN
Anoop Mishra, Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla +1
This paper presents AutoSec-RAN, a specification-grounded large language model (LLM) framework for automated security triage of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) testing. Unlike ap…
The Role of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Testing and Automation of Open RAN Systems: GNG-OTA Framework
Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic
Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) empower operators with choice and customization through their disaggregated and interoperable architecture. However, ensuring interoperability in…
Next Generation Intelligent Low-Altitude Economy Deployments: The O-RAN Perspective
Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic
Despite the growing interest in low-altitude economy (LAE) applications, including UAV-based logistics and emergency response, fundamental challenges remain in orchestrating such m…
Federated Neuroevolution O-RAN: Enhancing the Robustness of Deep Reinforcement Learning xApps
Mohammadreza Kouchaki, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic
The open radio access network (O-RAN) architecture introduces RAN intelligent controllers (RICs) to facilitate the management and optimization of the disaggregated RAN. Reinforceme…
Enhancing Secrecy Energy Efficiency in RIS-Aided Aerial Mobile Edge Computing Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic
This paper studies the problem of securing task offloading transmissions from ground users against ground eavesdropping threats. Our study introduces a reconfigurable intelligent s…
RAN Tester UE: An Automated Declarative UE Centric Security Testing Platform
Charles Marion Ueltschey, Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla +1
Cellular networks require strict security procedures and measures across various network components, from core to radio access network (RAN) and end-user devices. As networks becom…
Integrated LLM-Based Intrusion Detection with Secure Slicing xApp for Securing O-RAN-Enabled Wireless Network Deployments
Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Prabesh Khanal +1
The Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture is reshaping telecommunications by promoting openness, flexibility, and intelligent closed-loop optimization. By decoupling hardw…
Prototyping O-RAN Enabled UAV Experimentation for the AERPAW Testbed
Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Charles Ueltschey +1
The Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture is reshaping the telecommunications landscape by enhancing network flexibility, openness, and intelligence. This paper establishe…
Enhanced Real-Time Threat Detection in 5G Networks: A Self-Attention RNN Autoencoder Approach for Spectral Intrusion Analysis
Mohammadreza Kouchaki, Minglong Zhang, Aly S. Abdalla +3
In the rapidly evolving landscape of 5G technology, safeguarding Radio Frequency (RF) environments against sophisticated intrusions is paramount, especially in dynamic spectrum acc…
LSTM-Based Proactive Congestion Management for Internet of Vehicle Networks
Aly Sabri Abdalla, Ahmad Al-Kabbany, Ehab F. Badran +1
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks support a variety of safety, entertainment, and commercial applications. This is realized by applying the principles of the Internet of Vehicle…
Advancing Experimental Platforms for UAV Communications: Insights from AERPAW'S Digital Twin
Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Charles Ueltschey +5
The rapid evolution of 5G and beyond has advanced space-air-terrestrial networks, with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offering enhanced coverage, flexible configurations, and cost…
Soft Tester UE: A Novel Approach for Open RAN Security Testing
Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Charles Ueltschey +1
With the rise of 5G and open radio access networks (O-RAN), there is a growing demand for customizable experimental platforms dedicated to security testing, as existing testbeds do…
ZTRAN: Prototyping Zero Trust Security xApps for Open Radio Access Network Deployments
Aly S. Abdalla, Joshua Moore, Nisha Adhikari +1
The open radio access network (O-RAN) offers new degrees of freedom for building and operating advanced cellular networks. Emphasizing on RAN disaggregation, open interfaces, multi…
5G Advanced: Wireless Channel Virtualization and Resource Mapping for Real Time Spectrum Sharing
Walaa Alqwider, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic
The coexistence between active wireless communications and passive RF spectrum use becomes an increasingly important requirement for coordinated spectrum access supporting critical…
UAV Trajectory and Multi-User Beamforming Optimization for Clustered Users Against Passive Eavesdropping Attacks With Unknown CSI
Aly Sabri Abdalla, Ali Behfarnia, Vuk Marojevic
This paper tackles the fundamental passive eavesdropping problem in modern wireless communications in which the location and the channel state information (CSI) of the attackers ar…
End-to-End O-RAN Security Architecture, Threat Surface, Coverage, and the Case of the Open Fronthaul
Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic
O-RAN establishes an advanced radio access network (RAN) architecture that supports inter-operable, multi-vendor, and artificial intelligence (AI) controlled wireless access networ…
DDPG Learning for Aerial RIS-Assisted MU-MISO Communications
Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic
This paper defines the problem of optimizing the downlink multi-user multiple input, single output (MU-MISO) sum-rate for ground users served by an aerial reconfigurable intelligen…
Prototyping Next-Generation O-RAN Research Testbeds with SDRs
Pratheek S. Upadhyaya, Aly S. Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic +2
Open RAN (O-RAN) defines an emerging cellular radio access network (RAN) architecture for future 6G wireless networks, emphasizing openness and intelligence which are considered th…
Aerial Base Station Positioning and Power Control for Securing Communications: A Deep Q-Network Approach
Aly Sabri Abdalla, Ali Behfarnia, Vuk Marojevic
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is one of the technological breakthroughs that supports a variety of services, including communications. UAV will play a critical role in enhancin…
Open-Source Software Radio Platform for Research on Cellular Networked UAVs -- It Works!
Aly Sabri Abdalla, Andrew Yingst, Keith Powell +2
Cellular network-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) experience different radio propagation conditions than radio nodes on the ground. Therefore, it has become critical to in…
Security Threats and Cellular Network Procedures for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic
This paper discusses cellular network security for unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and provides insights into the ongoing Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standardizati…
Toward Next Generation Open Radio Access Network--What O-RAN Can and Cannot Do!
Aly S. Abdalla, Pratheek S. Upadhyaya, Vijay K. Shah +1
The open radio access network (O-RAN) describes an industry-driven open architecture and interfaces for building next generation RANs with artificial intelligence (AI) controllers.…
Network and Physical Layer Attacks and countermeasures to AI-Enabled 6G O-RAN
Talha F. Rahman, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Keith Powell +2
Artificial intelligence (AI) will play an increasing role in cellular network deployment, configuration and management. This paper examines the security implications of AI-driven 6…
UAVs with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities
Aly Sabri Abdalla, Talha Faizur Rahman, Vuk Marojevic
A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a metamaterial that can be integrated into walls and influence the propagation of electromagnetic waves. This, typically passive radio…