Security of 5G-Mobile Backhaul Networks: A Survey

Gaurav Choudhary+, Jiyoon Kim, and Vishal Sharma

 

Department of Information Security Engineering

Soonchunhyang University, Republic of Korea

{gauravchoudhary7777, 74jykim}@gmail.com, vishal sharma2012@hotmail.com

 

Abstract

The rapid involution of the mobile generation with incipient data networking capabilities and utilization has exponentially increased the data traffic volumes. Such traffic drains various key issues in 5G mobile backhaul networks. Security of mobile backhaul is of utmost importance; however, there are a limited number of articles, which have explored such a requirement. This paper discusses the potential design issues and key challenges of the secure 5G mobile backhaul architecture. The comparisons of the existing state-of-the-art solutions for secure mobile backhaul together with their major contributions have been explored. Furthermore, the paper discussed various key issues related to Quality of Service (QoS), routing and scheduling, resource management, capacity enhancement, latency, security-management, and handovers using mechanisms like Software Defined Networking and millimeter Wave technologies. Moreover, the trails of research challenges and future directions are additionally presented.

Keywords: 5G, Mobile Backhaul, Security, SDN, mmWave

 

+: Corresponding author: Gaurav Choudhary
Department of Information Security Engineering, 22 Soonchunhyang-ro, Shinchang-myeon, Asansi,

Choongchungnam-do, Republic of Korea 31538, Tel: +82-(0)41-530-1639

 
Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications
 (JoWUA)

Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 41-70, December 2018 [pdf]
DOI: 10.22667/JOWUA.2018.12.31.041