Intelligent Forensics in Next-Generation Mobile Networks: Evidence, Methods, and Applications
arXiv:2603.29364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This survey examines intelligent forensics in next-generation mobile networks, arguing that future wireless security must move beyond real-time detection toward accountable post-incident reconstruction. Unlike traditional digital forensics, wireless investigations rely on short-lived, distributed, and heterogeneous evidence, including radio waveforms, channel measurements, device-side artifacts, and network telemetry, affected by calibration, timing uncertainty, privacy constraints, and adversarial manipulation. To address this limitation, this paper develops an evidence-centric framework that treats wireless measurements as first-class forensic artifacts and organizes the field through a unified taxonomy spanning physical-layer, device-layer
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Abstract:This survey examines intelligent forensics in next-generation mobile networks, arguing that future wireless security must move beyond real-time detection toward accountable post-incident reconstruction. Unlike traditional digital forensics, wireless investigations rely on short-lived, distributed, and heterogeneous evidence, including radio waveforms, channel measurements, device-side artifacts, and network telemetry, affected by calibration, timing uncertainty, privacy constraints, and adversarial manipulation. To address this limitation, this paper develops an evidence-centric framework that treats wireless measurements as first-class forensic artifacts and organizes the field through a unified taxonomy spanning physical-layer, device-layer, network-layer, and cross-layer forensics. We further systematize the forensic workflow into readiness and preservation-by-design, acquisition, correlation and analysis, and reporting and reproducibility, while comparing the complementary roles of traditional methods and artificial intelligence-assisted techniques. Subsequently, we review major application areas, including anomaly discovery, attribution, provenance and localization, authenticity verification, and timeline reconstruction. Finally, we identify key open challenges, including domain shift, resource-aware evidence capture, and the benefits and admissibility risks of generative evidence. Overall, this paper positions wireless forensics as a foundational capability for trustworthy, auditable, and reproducible security in next-generation wireless systems. Readers can understand and streamline wireless forensics processes for specific applications, such as low-altitude wireless networks, vehicular communications, and edge general intelligence.
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Signal Processing (eess.SP)
Cite as: arXiv:2603.29364 [eess.SP]
(or arXiv:2603.29364v1 [eess.SP] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.29364
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From: Changyuan Zhao [view email] [v1] Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:38:57 UTC (6,223 KB)
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