Control-plane protocol interactions in cellular networks

Guan Hua Tu; Yuanjie Li; Chunyi Peng; Chi-Yu Li; Hongyi Wang; Songwu Lu

doi:10.1145/2619239.2626302

Control-plane protocol interactions in cellular networks

Guan Hua Tu, Yuanjie Li, Chunyi Peng, Chi-Yu Li, Hongyi Wang, Songwu Lu

Institute of Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Control-plane protocols are complex in cellular networks. They communicate with one another along three dimensions of cross layers, cross (circuit-switched and packet-switched) domains, and cross (3G and 4G) systems. In this work, we propose signaling diagnosis tools and uncover six instances of problematic interactions. Such control-plane issues span both design defects in the 3GPP standards and operational slips by carriers. They are more damaging than data-plane failures. In the worst-case scenario, users may be out of service in 4G, or get stuck in 3G. We deduce root causes, propose solutions, and summarize learned lessons.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SIGCOMM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	223-234
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9781450328364
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2619239.2626302
State	Published - 2014
Event	2014 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication, SIGCOMM 2014 - Chicago, IL, United States Duration: 17 Aug 2014 → 22 Aug 2014

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Name	SIGCOMM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication

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Conference	2014 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication, SIGCOMM 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago, IL
Period	17/08/14 → 22/08/14

Keywords

cellular networks
control-plane
protocol verification

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Tu, G. H., Li, Y., Peng, C., Li, C.-Y., Wang, H., & Lu, S. (2014). Control-plane protocol interactions in cellular networks. In SIGCOMM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication (pp. 223-234). (SIGCOMM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2619239.2626302

Tu, Guan Hua ; Li, Yuanjie ; Peng, Chunyi et al. / Control-plane protocol interactions in cellular networks. SIGCOMM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. pp. 223-234 (SIGCOMM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication).

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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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