The world of LTE is enshrouded in acronym soup, mystery, and technical documents that implement security by obscurity. In this talk, we will shed light on the magic that is the evolved packet core, otherwise known as the EPC. The EPC is the packet routing engine that connects the tower to the Internet. We will discuss the network communication protocols, core infrastructure elements, and basic architecture of this system. In closing, we will disclose successful crashes and kills that we have had in this network and discuss the potential for large scale communication disruption.
Chuck McAuley is a Principal Security Researcher at Ixia Communications. For the last ten years Chuck has been doing performance and security testing of inline networking devices. If it passes packets and does deep packet inspection, he's probably tested it. In his spare time he stares at Wireshark trying to decipher the tea leaves.
Chris Moore is an SE Dev Manager for a network test company. He was an SE for around a decade before this breaking, dissecting, and exposing every sort of network box under the guise of performance and security testing.