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rApp/xApp Attestation: A New Security Use Case for O-RAN
Hamed Alimohammadi, Burcu Şahin, Arda Akman +3
The disaggregation and softwarization introduced by the Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture enable multi-vendor innovation but also expose the RAN Intelligent Controller…
Solving the Post-Quantum Control Plane Bottleneck: Energy-Aware Cryptographic Scheduling in Open RAN
Neha Gupta, Hamed Alimohammadi, Mohammad Shojafar +2
The Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) offers flexibility and innovation but introduces unique security vulnerabilities, particularly from cryptographically relevant quantum compute…
Talk Like a Packet: Rethinking Network Traffic Analysis with Transformer Foundation Models
Samara Mayhoub, Chuan Heng Foh, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi +2
Inspired by the success of Transformer-based models in natural language processing, this paper investigates their potential as foundation models for network traffic analysis. We pr…
Agentic AI-RAN: Enabling Intent-Driven, Explainable and Self-Evolving Open RAN Intelligence
Zhizhou He, Yang Luo, Xinkai Liu +4
Open RAN (O-RAN) exposes rich control and telemetry interfaces across the Non-RT RIC, Near-RT RIC, and distributed units, but also makes it harder to operate multi-tenant, multi-ob…
Towards a Multi-Layer Defence Framework for Securing Near-Real-Time Operations in Open RAN
Hamed Alimohammadi, Samara Mayhoub, Sotiris Chatzimiltis +2
Securing the near-real-time (near-RT) control operations in Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN) is increasingly critical, yet remains insufficiently addressed, as new runtime thr…
Agentic AI for 6G: A New Paradigm for Autonomous RAN Security Compliance
Sotiris Chatzimiltis, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, Mohammad Shojafar +2
Agentic AI systems are emerging as powerful tools for automating complex, multi-step tasks across various industries. One such industry is telecommunications, where the growing com…
Interpretable Anomaly-Based DDoS Detection in AI-RAN with XAI and LLMs
Sotiris Chatzimiltis, Mohammad Shojafar, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi +1
Next generation Radio Access Networks (RANs) introduce programmability, intelligence, and near real-time control through intelligent controllers, enabling enhanced security within…
KPI Poisoning: An Attack in Open RAN Near Real-Time Control Loop
Hamed Alimohammadi, Sotiris Chatzimiltis, Samara Mayhoub +4
Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) is a new paradigm to provide fundamental features for supporting next-generation mobile networks. Disaggregation, virtualisation, closed-loop d…
Surviving the Storm: The Impacts of Open RAN Disaggregation on Latency and Resilience
Sotiris Chatzimiltis, Mohammad Shojafar, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi +1
The development of Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN), with their disaggregated architectures and virtualization of network functions, has brought considerable flexibility and c…
Secured Communication Schemes for UAVs in 5G: CRYSTALS-Kyber and IDS
Taneya Sharma, Seyed Ahmad Soleymani, Mohammad Shojafar +1
This paper introduces a secure communication architecture for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and ground stations in 5G networks, addressing critical challenges in network security…
Intelligent Control in 6G Open RAN: Security Risk or Opportunity?
Sanaz Soltani, Mohammad Shojafar, Ali Amanlou +1
The Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) framework, emerging as the cornerstone for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled Sixth-Generation (6G) mobile networks, heralds a transforma…
Multi-Agent Context Learning Strategy for Interference-Aware Beam Allocation in mmWave Vehicular Communications
Abdulkadir Kose, Haeyoung Lee, Chuan Heng Foh +1
Millimeter wave (mmWave) has been recognized as one of key technologies for 5G and beyond networks due to its potential to enhance channel bandwidth and network capacity. The use o…
SETTI: A Self-supervised Adversarial Malware Detection Architecture in an IoT Environment
Marjan Golmaryami, Rahim Taheri, Zahra Pooranian +2
In recent years, malware detection has become an active research topic in the area of Internet of Things (IoT) security. The principle is to exploit knowledge from large quantities…
TEL: Low-Latency Failover Traffic Engineering in Data Plane
Habib Mostafaei, Mohammad Shojafar, Mauro Conti
Modern network applications demand low-latency traffic engineering in the presence of network failure while preserving the quality of service constraints like delay and capacity. F…
Joint Energy Efficient and QoS-aware Path Allocation and VNF Placement for Service Function Chaining
Mohammad M. Tajiki, Stefano Salsano, Luca Chiaraviglio +2
Service Function Chaining (SFC) allows the forwarding of a traffic flow along a chain of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs, e.g., IDS, firewall, and NAT). Software Defined Networking…
The Use of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps in Analyzing and Implementation of ITIL Processes
Hamid Zarrazvand, Mohammad Shojafar
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is series of best practices that helps Information technology Organizations to provide Information technology (IT) services for…