5G Network Slicing Isolation

Network architecture

Three logically-isolated virtual slices share the same physical towers and core hardware. Each slice enforces its own routing table and access boundary.

Attack

Spread speed 1.0×

Affected devices, live

Consumer

0 / 6

IoT / Factory

0 / 5

Emergency

0 / 5

Total blast

Blast-radius comparison

Sliced

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Flat

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How it works

All devices sit on the same physical radio towers and core routing hardware — that never changes. What changes is the logical layer: in sliced mode each traffic type (consumer, IoT/factory, emergency) gets its own virtual routing table and encryption context enforced at the network core, so a compromised device can only reach neighbours inside its own slice. In flat mode there is a single shared routing domain, so a compromise can hop to any connected device regardless of traffic type.

Click Compromise the IoT sensor to infect the flagged factory sensor. Watch red probes launch toward the other slices: in sliced mode they hit the translucent isolation boundary and are blocked; in flat mode they land and spread.

SLICED — 3 isolated virtual networks

Click any glowing IoT sensor (orange) to trigger the compromise.

Consumer slice IoT / factory slice Emergency slice Compromised device

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