3GPP 5G Security

Authors

  • Anand R. Prasad Chairman of 3GPP SA3, NEC Corporation, Japan
  • Sivabalan Arumugam NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., India
  • Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., India
  • Alf Zugenmaier Vice Chairman of 3GPP SA3 & Rapporteur, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245-800X.619

Keywords:

LTE, 5G, 5G Core, NR, Authentication, Services, Security, Privacy

Abstract

5G is the next generation of mobile communication systems. As it is being finalized, the specification is stable enough to allow giving an overview. This paper presents the security aspects of the 5G system specified by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), especially highlighting the differences to the 4G (LTE) system. The most important 5G security enhancements are access agnostic primary authentication with home control, security key establishment and management, security for mobility, service based architecture security, inter-network security, privacy and security for services provided over 5G with secondary authentication.

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Author Biographies

Anand R. Prasad, Chairman of 3GPP SA3, NEC Corporation, Japan

Anand R. Prasad, Dr. & ir., Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, is Chief Advanced Technologist, Executive Specialist, at NEC Corporation, Japan, where he leads the mobile communications security activity. Anand is the chairman of 3GPP SA3 (mobile communications security standardization group), a member of the governing body of Global ICT Standardisation Forum for India (GISFI), founder chairman of the Security & Privacy working group and a governing council member of Telecom Standards Development Society, India. He was chairman of the Green ICT working group of GISFI. Before joining NEC, Anand led the network security team in DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany, as a manager. He started his career at Uniden Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, as a researcher developing embedded solutions, such as medium access control (MAC) and automatic repeat request (ARQ) schemes for wireless local area network (WLAN) product, and as project leader of the software modem team. Subsequently, he was a systems architect (as distinguished member of technical staff) for IEEE 802.11 based WLANs (WaveLAN and ORiNOCO) in Lucent Technologies, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, during which period he was also a voting member of IEEE 802.11. After Lucent, Anand joined Genista Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, as a technical director with focus on perceptual QoS. Anand has provided business and technical consultancy to start-ups, started an offshore development center based on his concept of cost effective outsourcing models and is involved in business development.

Anand has applied for over 50 patents, has published 6 books and authored over 50 peer reviewed papers in international journals and conferences. His latest book is on “Security in Next Generation Mobile Networks: SAE/LTE and WiMAX”, published by River Publishers, August 2011. He is a series editor for standardization book series and editor-in-chief of the Journal of ICT Standardisation published by River Publishers, an Associate Editor of IEEK (Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea) Transactions on Smart Processing & Computing (SPC), advisor to Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility, and chair/committee member of several international activities.

He is a recipient of the 2014 ITU-AJ “Encouragement Award: ICT Accomplishment Field” and the 2012 (ISC)2 Asia Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements (ISLA) Award as a Senior Information Security Professional. Anand is Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Fellow IETE and Senior Member IEEE and a NEC Certified Professional (NCP).

Sivabalan Arumugam, NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., India

Sivabalan Arumugam received Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in 2008 and M.Tech degree from Pondicherry University, India, in 2000. He has 14 years of experience in Academic teaching and Research. Presently he works as Assistant General Manager for Research at NEC Mobile Network Excellence Center (NMEC), NEC Technologies India Pvt Ltd, Chennai. Prior joining NECI he was associated with ABB Global Services and Industries Limited, Bangalore as Associate Scientist. He has published more than 25 papers in various International Journals and Conferences and also participated in many National and International Conferences. In his current role, he is representing NEC for Global ICT Standards forum of India (GISFI). His research interest includes Next Generation Wireless Networks.

Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran, NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., India

Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran received her Ph.D. in Faculty of Information and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai in 2017. She received her M.E. degree in Computer science and engineering from Anna University, Coimbatore and received the B.Tech. degree in Information Technology from Anna University, Chennai. She was a member of NGNLabs Anna University and was a recipient of Maulana Azad National Fellowship from 2013–2016. She has 19 months of experience in Research and Development of mobile communication networks and security standardization. She is carrying out her research in Security Solutions for 5G, Internet of Things, Public Safety network and Common API Framework. Her research interest includes LTE, LTE-Advanced, 5G, IoT Security and MAC layer protocol design. She contributes to 3GPP SA3 standard Specifications and applied for more than 5 patents in next generation network security. She has authored over 10 publications in international journals (IEEE Access, ACM, Elsevier & Springer) and conferences. She is also a reviewer for IEEE Access and Elsevier journals.

Alf Zugenmaier, Vice Chairman of 3GPP SA3 & Rapporteur, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Alf Zugenmaier is teaching mobile networks and security at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. He also represents NTT DOCOMO at the 3GPP security working group of which he is vice chair. He has been contributing to security standardization in 3GPP for ten years, supporting 4G and 5G security standardization. Prior to joining the University, he worked at DOCOMO Euro-labs in Munich, Germany, and Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. His areas of interest are network and systems security as well as privacy.

References

3GPP TS 33.401, “Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects: 3GPP System Architecture Evolution (SAE) Security architecture”, Release 15, v 15.3.0, March 2018.

3GPP TS 33.501, “Security architecture and procedures for 5G system”, Release 15, v 15.0.0, March 2018.

3GPP TS 24.501, “Non-Access-Stratum (NAS) protocol for 5G System (5GS)”, Release 15, v 1.0.0, March 2018.

3GPP TS 38.331, “NR-Radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol specification”, Release 15, v 15.0.0, March 2018.

3GPP TS 38.470, “NG-RAN: F1 general aspects and principles”, Release 15, v 15.0.0, March 2018.

3GPP TS 38.472, “NG-RAN: F1 signalling transport”, Release 15, v 15.0.0, December 2017.

3GPP TS 36.300, “Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) - Overall description”, Release 15, v 15.0.0, March 2018.

3GPP TS 33.102, “3G Security - Security architecture”, Release 14, v 14.1.0, March 2017.

RFC 5448, “Improved Extensible Authentication Protocol Method for 3rd Generation Authentication and Key Agreement (EAP-AKA’)”, Nokia, May 2009.

3GPP TS 23.502, “Procedures for the 5G System”, Release 15, v 15.1.0, March 2018.

3GPP TS 33.210, “3G security; Network Domain Security (NDS); IP network layer security”, Release 14, v 14.0.0, December 2016.

RFC-7296, “Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)”.

RFC-7321: “Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation Requirements and Usage Guidance for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)”.

RFC-3748: “Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)”.

NEC White paper, “Making 5G a Reality”, 2018, https://www.nec.com/en/global/solutions/nsp/5g_vision/doc/wp2018ar.pdf.

Tobias Engel. (December 2014). “SS7: Locate. Track. Manipulate”, http://berlin.ccc.de/∼tobias/31c3-ss7-locate-track-manipulate.pdf

GSMA RIFS: “Diameter Roaming Security – Proposed Permanent Reference Document”.

3GPP TS 33.899, “Study on the security aspects of the next generation system”, Release 14, v 1.3.0, August 2017.

Anand R. Prasad and Seung-Woo Seo, Security in Next Generation Mobile Networks: SAE/LTE and WiMAX, River Publishers, September 2011.

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Published

2018-05-25

How to Cite

Prasad, A. R. ., Arumugam, S. ., Baskaran, S. B. M. ., & Zugenmaier, A. . (2018). 3GPP 5G Security. Journal of ICT Standardization, 6(1-2), 137–158. https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245-800X.619

Issue

2018: Vol 6 Iss 1-2

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Articles