activity
20232026
most citedGotta Detect 'Em All: Fake Base Station and Multi-Step Attack Detection in Cellular Networks

2 citations · 6 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators
Showing 2026Show all

10 papers · 1 filter

cs.AI2026

OTel: Open Telco AI Datasets, Benchmarks, and Models

Farbod Tavakkoli, Gregory Diamos, Kenneth Church +19

We present Open Telco (OTel), an open telecom AI resource that releases derived telecom datasets for retrieval, reranking, instruction tuning, and safety/abstention, together with…

cs.CR2026

Tick-Tock on the Open Fronthaul: Securing Synchronization in O-RAN

Yiwei Zhang, Enrico Pisanti, Imtiaz Karim +2

The Precision Time Protocol (PTP) provides the time and phase synchronization required by disaggregated Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN). Yet, in current open fronthaul deploymen…

cs.CR2026

Understanding the Usability of Cryptographic Verification Tools

Tarikul Islam, Yasin Islam, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar +1

Cryptographic protocol verification tools are widely used to analyze the security of complex protocols, yet how users interact with these tools remains comparatively understudied.…

cs.CR2026

A2ABreak: Systematic Security Analysis of the A2A Protocol

Alireza Lotfi, Mirza Masfiqur Rahman, Imtiaz Karim +1

The Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, now governed by the Linux Foundation, is an open standard that enables autonomous AI agents to discover, authenticate with, and delegate tasks to on…

cs.CR2026

PhantomCall: Evading ML Malware Detectors via Function Call Graph Perturbation

Md Ajwad Akil, Adrian Shuai Li, Imtiaz Karim +3

Prior adversarial attacks on Windows PE malware detectors target raw bytes, PE headers, or intra-function control-flow graphs, leaving the function call graph (FCG) unexplored as a…

cs.AI2026

OTel: Building Domain-Specialized Telecom LLM Foundations for Intelligent Networks

Farbod Tavakkoli, Roderic Paulk, Jorden Terrazas +9

Frontier AI models have advanced rapidly, but they still struggle with telecom-specific tasks. We present Open Telco (OTel), an open telecom AI resource with derived datasets for r…

cs.AI2026

Securing Agentic AI: From Per-Action Checks to Trajectory Assurance

Alireza Lotfi, Subangkar Karmaker Shanto, Imtiaz Karim +1

Autonomous agents are increasingly used to execute consequential tasks in environments governed by operational constraints, organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and te…

cs.CR2026

A Lightweight Post-Quantum Authentication Framework for 5G Base Station Bootstrapping

Saleh Darzi, Mirza Masfiqur Rahman, Imtiaz Karim +3

The absence of authenticated bootstrapping between User Equipments (UEs) and Base Stations (BSs) in 5G leaves System Information Block (SIB) broadcasts unprotected, enabling fake B…

cs.CY2026★ 1 cited

Tracing Users' Privacy Concerns Across the Lifecycle of a Romantic AI Companion

Kazi Ababil Azam, Imtiaz Karim, Dipto Das

Romantic AI chatbots have quickly attracted users, but their emotional use raises concerns about privacy and safety. As people turn to these systems for intimacy, comfort, and emot…

cs.CR2026

Breaking 5G on The Lower Layer

Subangkar Karmaker Shanto, Imtiaz Karim, Elisa Bertino

As 3GPP systems have strengthened security at the upper layers of the cellular stack, plaintext PHY and MAC layers have remained relatively understudied, though interest in them is…