Real-time passive capturing of the GSM radio. Alyafawi, I., Dimitrova, D. C., & Braun, T. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pages 4401–4406, Sydney, NSW, June, 2014. IEEE.
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This paper addresses the problem of service development based on GSM handset signaling. The aim is to achieve this goal without the participation of the users, which requires the use of a passive GSM receiver on the uplink. Since no tool for GSM uplink capturing was available, we developed a new method that can synchronize to multiple mobile devices by simply overhearing traffic between them and the network. Our work includes the implementation of modules for signal recovery, message reconstruction and parsing. The method has been validated against a benchmark solution on GSM downlink and independently evaluated on uplink channels. Initial evaluations show up to 99% success rate in message decoding, which is a very promising result. Moreover, we conducted measurements that reveal insights on the impact of signal power on the capturing performance and investigate possible reactive measures.
@inproceedings{alyafawi_real-time_2014,
	address = {Sydney, NSW},
	title = {Real-time passive capturing of the {GSM} radio},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-2003-7},
	url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6884013/},
	doi = {10.1109/ICC.2014.6884013},
	abstract = {This paper addresses the problem of service development based on GSM handset signaling. The aim is to achieve this goal without the participation of the users, which requires the use of a passive GSM receiver on the uplink. Since no tool for GSM uplink capturing was available, we developed a new method that can synchronize to multiple mobile devices by simply overhearing traffic between them and the network. Our work includes the implementation of modules for signal recovery, message reconstruction and parsing. The method has been validated against a benchmark solution on GSM downlink and independently evaluated on uplink channels. Initial evaluations show up to 99\% success rate in message decoding, which is a very promising result. Moreover, we conducted measurements that reveal insights on the impact of signal power on the capturing performance and investigate possible reactive measures.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2018-09-02},
	booktitle = {2014 {IEEE} {International} {Conference} on {Communications} ({ICC})},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	author = {Alyafawi, Islam and Dimitrova, Desislava C. and Braun, Torsten},
	month = jun,
	year = {2014},
	pages = {4401--4406}
}

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