Research Article
Countering Mobile Signaling Storms with Counters
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_18, author={Erol Gelenbe and Omer Abdelrahman}, title={Countering Mobile Signaling Storms with Counters}, proceedings={Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures. Second International Summit, IoT 360° 2015, Rome, Italy, October 27-29, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Part I}, proceedings_a={IOT360}, year={2017}, month={1}, keywords={Signaling overload Radio resource control M2M IoT Application malfunctions Malware QoS}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_18} }- Erol Gelenbe
Omer Abdelrahman
Year: 2017
Countering Mobile Signaling Storms with Counters
IOT360
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_18
Abstract
Mobile Networks are subject to signaling storms launched by misbehaving applications or malware, which result in bandwidth overload at the cell level and excessive signaling within the mobile operator, and may also deplete the battery power of mobile devices. This paper reviews the causes of signaling storms and proposes a novel technique for storm detection and mitigation. The approach is based on counting the number of successive signaling transitions that do not utilize allocated bandwidth, and temporarily blocking mobile devices that exceed a certain threshold to avoid overloading the network. Through a mathematical analysis, we derive the optimum value of the counter’s threshold, which minimizes both the number of misbehaving mobiles and the signaling overload in the network. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
