The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

5G IMS Security

Research Areas: Network Security

Principal Investigator: Chunyi Peng

This project expands our prior studies on 3G/4G voice security to investigate 4G/5G voice security, particularly those relevant to IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), which is responsible for enabling packet-switched voice calls and SMS services through Voice over NR (VoNR), also known as Voice over 5G (Vo5G). In this project, we aim to uncover unknown vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors on both device and network sides. 

Personnel

Other PIs: Guan-Hua Tu (Michigan State University)

Students: Shaan Shekhar

Representative Publications

  • Shi J, Xie T, Tu GH, Peng C, Li CY, Hou A, Wang S, Hu Y, Lei X, Chen MY, Xiao L. When Good Turns Evil: Encrypted 5G/4G Voice Calls Can Leak Your Identities. In2023 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Oct 2023. 

  • Shi J, Wang S, Chen MY, Tu GH, Xie T, Chen MH, Hu Y, Li CY, Peng C. IMS is Not That Secure on Your 5G/4G Phones. InProceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking  (MobiCom'24), Oct 2024. 

Keywords: 5G/4G, 5G/4G security, cellular network, IMS, voice call