Different Vulnerabilities of GSM Network
Asst. Professor, Dept. of E&C, C U Shah College of Engg. & Tech., Wadhwan, Gujarat, India, India
ABSTRACT
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) is the most popular telecommunication protocol used in telecommunication networks. The telecommunications industry uses a combination of 2G (GSM), 3G (UMTS) and 4G (LTE) systems to access communication worldwide. However telecommunications industry keeps a high percentage of their deployed infrastructure using GSM technologies. GSM offers worldwide roaming and interconnection with any available GSM network. GSM subscriptions have the 82.4% percent of the global market of mobile communications serving more than 4 billion people across the planet. Users are expected to be aware of the possible security threats. This work highlights weaknesses and issues in the GSM standard, and presents an informed approach to help audit GSM networks for vulnerabilities.
