US 12,113,827 B2
Coordinated cellular network attack detection and mitigation
Joseph Soryal, Glendale, NY (US); and Dylan Chamberlain Reid, Atlanta, GA (US)
Assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed by AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed on Mar. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/654,104.
Prior Publication US 2023/0291763 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 4/14 (2009.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)
CPC H04L 63/1458 (2013.01) [H04L 63/1425 (2013.01); H04W 4/14 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
monitoring, by network equipment comprising a processor, an external data source, wherein the external data source is external to a cellular network comprising the network equipment;
monitoring, by the network equipment, a traffic condition of the cellular network, wherein:
the traffic condition varies within a variable traffic condition range, and
variation of the variable traffic condition range is correlated with variation of the external data source;
based on the traffic condition, the external data source, and the variable traffic condition range, identifying, by the network equipment, an anomalous traffic condition, wherein the anomalous traffic condition is outside of the variable traffic condition range; and
initiating, by the network equipment, an attack mitigation procedure in response to identifying the anomalous traffic condition.