KPI Poisoning: An Attack in Open RAN Near Real-Time Control Loop
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| author | Alimohammadi, Hamed Chatzimiltis, Sotiris Mayhoub, Samara Shojafar, Mohammad Soleymani, Seyed Ahmad Akbas, Ayhan Foh, Chuan Heng |
| author_facet | Alimohammadi, Hamed Chatzimiltis, Sotiris Mayhoub, Samara Shojafar, Mohammad Soleymani, Seyed Ahmad Akbas, Ayhan Foh, Chuan Heng |
| contents | Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) is a new paradigm to provide fundamental features for supporting next-generation mobile networks. Disaggregation, virtualisation, closed-loop data-driven control, and open interfaces bring flexibility and interoperability to the network deployment. However, these features also create a new surface for security threats. In this paper, we introduce Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) poisoning attack in Near Real-Time control loops as a new form of threat that can have significant effects on the Open RAN functionality. This threat can arise from traffic spoofing on the E2 interface or compromised E2 nodes. The role of KPIs is explored in the use cases of Near Real-Time control loops. Then, the potential impacts of the attack are analysed. An ML-based approach is proposed to detect poisoned KPI values before using them in control loops. Emulations are conducted to generate KPI reports and inject anomalies into the values. A Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network model is used to detect anomalies. The results show that more amplified injected values are more accessible to detect, and using more report sequences leads to better performance in anomaly detection, with detection rates improving from 62% to 99%. |
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| spellingShingle | KPI Poisoning: An Attack in Open RAN Near Real-Time Control Loop Alimohammadi, Hamed Chatzimiltis, Sotiris Mayhoub, Samara Shojafar, Mohammad Soleymani, Seyed Ahmad Akbas, Ayhan Foh, Chuan Heng Networking and Internet Architecture Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) is a new paradigm to provide fundamental features for supporting next-generation mobile networks. Disaggregation, virtualisation, closed-loop data-driven control, and open interfaces bring flexibility and interoperability to the network deployment. However, these features also create a new surface for security threats. In this paper, we introduce Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) poisoning attack in Near Real-Time control loops as a new form of threat that can have significant effects on the Open RAN functionality. This threat can arise from traffic spoofing on the E2 interface or compromised E2 nodes. The role of KPIs is explored in the use cases of Near Real-Time control loops. Then, the potential impacts of the attack are analysed. An ML-based approach is proposed to detect poisoned KPI values before using them in control loops. Emulations are conducted to generate KPI reports and inject anomalies into the values. A Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network model is used to detect anomalies. The results show that more amplified injected values are more accessible to detect, and using more report sequences leads to better performance in anomaly detection, with detection rates improving from 62% to 99%. |
| title | KPI Poisoning: An Attack in Open RAN Near Real-Time Control Loop |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05537 |