Citation
Younghwan Go, Jongil Won, Denis Foo Kune, EunYoung Jeong, Yongdae Kim, KyoungSoo Park. "Gaining Control of Cellular Traffic Accounting by Spurious TCP Retransmission". Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 23, February, 2014.

Abstract
Packet retransmission is a fundamental TCP feature that ensures reliable data transfer between two end nodes. Interestingly, when it comes to cellular data accounting, TCP retransmission creates an important policy issue. Cellular ISPs might argue that all retransmitted IP packets should be accounted for billing since they consume the resources of their infrastructures. On the other hand, the service subscribers might want to pay only for the application data by taking out the amount for retransmission. Regardless of the policies, however, we find that TCP retransmission can be easily abused to manipulate the current practice of cellular traffic accounting.

Electronic downloads

• http://www.src.org/library/publication/p068881/. (SRC prepublication page)
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  Younghwan Go, Jongil Won, Denis Foo Kune, EunYoung Jeong,
  Yongdae Kim, KyoungSoo Park. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/209.html"
  >Gaining Control of Cellular Traffic Accounting by
  Spurious TCP Retransmission</a>, Network and
  Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 23, February,
  2014.

• Plain text

  Younghwan Go, Jongil Won, Denis Foo Kune, EunYoung Jeong,
  Yongdae Kim, KyoungSoo Park. "Gaining Control of
  Cellular Traffic Accounting by Spurious TCP
  Retransmission". Network and Distributed System
  Security Symposium (NDSS), 23, February, 2014.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{GoWonFooKuneJeongKimPark14_GainingControlOfCellularTrafficAccountingBySpuriousTCP,
      author = {Younghwan Go and Jongil Won and Denis Foo Kune and
                EunYoung Jeong and Yongdae Kim and KyoungSoo Park},
      title = {Gaining Control of Cellular Traffic Accounting by
                Spurious TCP Retransmission},
      booktitle = {Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
                (NDSS)},
      day = {23},
      month = {February},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {Packet retransmission is a fundamental TCP feature
                that ensures reliable data transfer between two
                end nodes. Interestingly, when it comes to
                cellular data accounting, TCP retransmission
                creates an important policy issue. Cellular ISPs
                might argue that all retransmitted IP packets
                should be accounted for billing since they consume
                the resources of their infrastructures. On the
                other hand, the service subscribers might want to
                pay only for the application data by taking out
                the amount for retransmission. Regardless of the
                policies, however, we find that TCP retransmission
                can be easily abused to manipulate the current
                practice of cellular traffic accounting. },
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/209.html}
  }
  

Posted by Christopher Brooks on 13 Nov 2013.