DoSQ: A Cross-Layer Denial of Service Quality Attack by Exploiting Side Channels in 5G NR

arXiv:2607.16102 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-07-17 · Read on arXiv

Mahmudul Hassan Ashik, Moinul Hossain

cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-07-17

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures. Accepted at the 2026 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)

Code: https://github.com/srsRAN/srsRAN

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

Decode — 21× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Denial of Service Quality — 3× in this paper
Fingerprinting — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Downlink Control Information — 2× in this paper
Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Closed-Loop Control — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
Quality of Experience — 1× in this paper
Radio Resource Control — 1× in this paper
Software-Defined Radio — 1× in this paper
Technical Specification — 1× in this paper
Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications — 1× in this paper
Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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