We are pleased to announce that LINCS Lab members Wissal Hamhoum and Hatim Lakhdar will present their accepted paper at the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2024. The conference was held from June 9-13, 2024, in Denver, Colorado, USA.

Their paper, titled “Fortifying Open RAN Security with Zero Trust Architecture and Transformers,” introduces an innovative approach to securing Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN). This method integrates the principles of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) with transformer-based models. ZTA operates on the premise that no entity, whether inside or outside the network, should be implicitly trusted, requiring verification for every access attempt. By incorporating transformers, known for their proficiency in processing unstructured data, this approach facilitates real-time analysis of time series data within defined windows to detect anomalies effectively.