Trusting LTE Communications for Over-the-Air Updates in Automobiles 2016-01-0067
Modern vehicular systems rely on millions of lines of code that must occasionally be updated to add new functions or to patch flaws to ensure safe and secure operation. Updates accomplished through a compromised cellular base station could lead to an update process that may be vulnerable to attack. We have been investigating techniques for determining whether an LTE base station (known as an eNodeB) appears to be suspicious, so that an update could be paused or terminated until a trusted eNodeB is available. We describe a detector we developed as part of our research that scans LTE signals for anomalies and provides an alert when an anomaly is found.
Citation: Wilson, R., Music, W., and Anderson, B., "Trusting LTE Communications for Over-the-Air Updates in Automobiles," SAE Technical Paper 2016-01-0067, 2016, https://doi.org/10.4271/2016-01-0067. Download Citation
Author(s):
Ryan Wilson, Wayne Music, Brian Anderson
Affiliated:
Southwest Research Institute
Pages: 7
Event:
SAE 2016 World Congress and Exhibition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Research and development
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