CXIDR cellular cross-layer intrusion detection and respons

Abstract

Consumption of data through cellular devices are growing exponentially due to continuously growing popularity of smart phones and tablets. Because of their small size and reduced capabilities, it is sometimes hard to impose adequate security measures to these everyday used devices. Security measures are taken such as authentication, encryption or key management which can’t detect or solve all kinds of known and unknown attacks specially the new or unknown ones. Thus they have become a popular target for data theft and misuse. Because of the nature of the cellular network various kinds of attack on the cellular devices such as DOS are happening every day. Cellular network, being a wireless network, is prone to attacks because of the node’s shared nature, naturally broadcasted states, unclear perimeters, invisible access, limited resources and being not tolerant to physical attacks. So, security in wireless network is more complex than wired network. The conventional security measures regarding only the layered architecture cannot cope with this ever evolving security issue. So, here we are proposing a modified version of cross-layer design for security in wireless network entitled as Cellular Cross-layer Intrusion Detection and Response or CXIDR. It is an extended version of Cross-layer Intrusion Detection and Response (XIDR) framework. Here, we have tried to define the notion of cross-layer design which integrates features from various layers for detecting intrusions in wireless environment. We believe that this enhanced framework will do a great job in detecting intrusions in wireless area in near future.