A Survey on Security Issues of 5G NR: Perspective of Artificial Dust and Artificial Rain

TL;DR

This survey examines security issues in 5G NR, introduces mathematical models for threats, and explores how artificial rain and dust influence network security, highlighting potential attack scenarios and the need for advanced security measures.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive survey of 5G NR security threats, mathematical modeling of these issues, and analyzes the impact of artificial environmental factors on network security.

Findings

Artificial rain and dust affect wireless security factors.

A half-duplex attack scenario on D2D communication is identified.

Security vulnerabilities due to environmental factors are highlighted.

Abstract

5G NR (New Radio) incorporates concepts of novel technologies such as spectrum sharing, D2D communication, UDN, and massive MIMO. However, providing security and identifying the security threats to these technologies occupies the prime concern. This paper intends to provide an ample survey of security issues and their countermeasures encompassed in the technologies of 5G NR. Further, security concerns of each technology are defined mathematically. Thereby defining the impact on the factors of security. Moreover, a methodology is developed in which the influence on security due to artificially generated rain and artificially generated dust on the wireless communication network is studied. By doing so, an attacking scenario is identified, where a half-duplex attack in D2D communication is attained. Half-duplex attack specifies the attack solely on the downlink to spoof the allocated resources, with reduced miss-rate. Thus, ultra-reliable and adequate advances are required to be addressed to remove the obstacles that create a hindrance in achieving the secured and authenticated communicating network