Lightweight Scalable and Secure 5G and Beyond Networks

5G正在确保一个大规模和无处不在的连接时代。5G标准对安全性和可扩展性进行了增强。然而，目前的状态远远不能满足国防部或国防部部署的安全性和鲁棒性需求，以及国防部和民用应用的轻量级可扩展性和可扩展性需求。从实际的角度来看，缺乏灵活的、专为高安全性、鲁棒性和可扩展性而设计的全新5G软件实现。国防部和学术研究中的许多倡议，以及加速连接，都受到缺乏成熟的现有开源平台的阻碍，这些平台有大量遗留代码。拟议的轻量级可扩展和安全5G和超越网络项目旨在迭代开发一个全新的前瞻性5G和超越双重用途的基础，可以实例化，以满足国防部的安全性和鲁棒性需求，同时提供灵活性，支持具有高社会影响的部署，如灾难恢复，反审查，并为服务不足的地区带来连接。这种方法利用了团队在5G安全方面的最新成果（例如，ONR资助的rosetta项目鲁棒和安全战术5G项目）。第一步包括开发一个轻量级的最小和可扩展的gndeb基础，可以部署在低功耗/成本平台上（包括无人机和小型计算平台），并为国防部设备或灾难恢复用例启用用户设备和用户设备支线。该基地沿着多个维度进行扩展，以逐步整合防御机制，团队研究活动的成果。这些技术的目标是频谱和信号完整性意识；避免;隐形;利用可信的执行环境实现零信任。提议的活动借鉴了该团队的多学科专业知识，包括应用密码学、网络安全协议设计、系统安全、无线通信和射频机器学习系统。

5G is assuringofan era of massive and ubiquitous connectivity. The 5G standard introduced enhancements towards security and scalability. Yet, the current state is far from meeting the security and robustness needs of the Department of Defense or DoD deployment, and lightweight scalability and extensibility needs of both DoD and civilian applications. From a practical perspective, there is a lack of clean-slate 5G software implementations that are flexible and designed for high security, robustness, and scalability. Many initiatives in DoD and academic research, and for accelerating connectivity,are hindered by the lack of maturity of existing open-source platforms, which have significant amounts of legacy code. The proposed Lightweight Scalable and Secure 5G and Beyond Networks project intends to iteratively develop a clean-slate forward-looking 5G and beyond dual use base that can be instantiated to meet the security and robustness needs of the DoD while providing the flexibility to support deployments with high societal impacts such as disaster recovery, anti-censorship, and bringing connectivity to under-served areas. This approach leverages recent results by the team on 5G security (e.g., ONR funded ROSETA project RObust and SEcure TActical 5G project). A first step consists of developing a lightweight minimal and extensible gNodeB base that can be deployed on low-power/cost platforms (including unmanned aerial vehicles and small-compute platforms) and enabling user equipment and user equipment sidelinks for DoD devices or disaster recovery use case. This base is extensible along multiple dimensions to gradually integrate defense mechanisms, outcomes of the research activities of the team. These techniques aim at spectrum and signaling integrity awareness; avoidance; stealth; and leveraging trusted execution environments towards zero trust. The proposed activities draw from the team’s multidisciplinary expertise spanning applied cryptography, network security protocols design, systems security, wireless communications, and RF machine learning systems.