English
Related papers

Related papers: A measurement driven, 802.11 anti-jamming system

200 papers

An adversarial machine learning approach is introduced to launch jamming attacks on wireless communications and a defense strategy is presented. A cognitive transmitter uses a pre-trained classifier to predict the current channel status…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Yi Shi

Wireless networks can be vulnerable to radio jamming attacks. The quality of service under a jamming attack is not guaranteed and the service requirements such as reliability, latency, and effective rate, specifically in mission-critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Mohammadreza Amini , Ghazal Asemian , Michel Kulhandjian , Burak Kantarci , Claude D'Amours , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Because of the open access nature of wireless communications, wireless networks can suffer from malicious activity, such as jamming attacks, aimed at undermining the network's ability to sustain communication links and acceptable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Ying Liu , Andrey Garnaev , Wade Trappe

The inherent vulnerability of wireless communication necessitates strategies to enhance its security, particularly in the face of jamming attacks. This paper uses the collaborations of multiple sensing nodes (SNs) in the wireless network to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Amir Mehrabian , Georges Kaddoum

Joint Communication and Sensing (JCAS) is taking its first shape in WLAN sensing under IEEE 802.11bf, where standardized WLAN signals and protocols are exploited to enable radar-like sensing. However, an overlooked problem in JCAS, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-03 Hasan Can Yildirim , Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch , François Horlin

We design a jamming-resistant receiver scheme to enhance the robustness of a massive MIMO uplink system against jamming. We assume that a jammer attacks the system both in the pilot and data transmission phases. The key feature of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Tan Tai Do , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

This paper develops a novel framework to defeat a super-reactive jammer, one of the most difficult jamming attacks to deal with in practice. Specifically, the jammer has an unlimited power budget and is equipped with the self-interference…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Nguyen Van Huynh , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Thang X. Vu , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Symeon Chatzinotas

By using smart radio devices, a jammer can dynamically change its jamming policy based on opposing security mechanisms; it can even induce the mobile device to enter a specific communication mode and then launch the jamming policy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Liang Xiao , Guoan Han , Donghua Jiang , Hongzi Zhu , Yanyong Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

Wireless communication systems are increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated jamming attacks with the rapid evolution of jamming technologies and advanced signal processing techniques. While traditional anti-jamming techniques offer limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yang Cao , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Lifeng Wang

Reactive jammers pose a severe security threat to robotic-swarm networks by selectively disrupting inter-agent communications and undermining formation integrity and mission success. Conventional countermeasures such as fixed power control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Bahman Abolhassani , Tugba Erpek , Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sastry Kompella

In 802.11 systems, Rate Adaptation (RA) is a fundamental mechanism allowing transmitters to adapt the coding and modulation scheme as well as the MIMO transmission mode to the radio channel conditions, and in turn, to learn and track the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Richard Combes , Alexandre Proutiere , Donggyu Yun , Jungseul Ok , Yung Yi

Wireless communications are vulnerable against radio frequency (RF) jamming which might be caused either intentionally or unintentionally. A particular subset of wireless networks, vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET) which incorporate a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Dimitrios Kosmanos , Dimitrios Karagiannis , Antonios Argyriou , Spyros Lalis , Leandros Maglaras

Conventional anti-jamming methods mainly focus on preventing single jammer attacks with an invariant jamming policy or jamming attacks from multiple jammers with similar jamming policies. These anti-jamming methods are ineffective against a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum , Walid Saad

The pervasive threat of jamming attacks, particularly from adaptive jammers capable of optimizing their strategies, poses a significant challenge to the security and reliability of wireless communications. This paper addresses this issue by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Xiao Tang , Zhen Ma , Bin Li , Cong Li , Qinghe Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Wireless systems must be resilient to jamming attacks. Existing mitigation methods based on multi-antenna processing require knowledge of the jammer's transmit characteristics that may be difficult to acquire, especially for smart jammers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Gian Marti , Torben Kölle , Christoph Studer

This paper reveals the potential of movable antennas in enhancing anti-jamming communication. We consider a legitimate communication link in the presence of multiple jammers and propose deploying a movable antenna array at the receiver to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Xiao Tang , Yudan Jiang , Jinxin Liu , Qinghe Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Wireless links are increasingly used to deliver critical services, while intentional interference (jamming) remains a very serious threat to such services. In this paper, we are concerned with the design and evaluation of a universal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Hai N. Nguyen , Guevara Noubir

This paper considers a cooperative jamming (CJ)-aided secure wireless communication system. Conventionally, the jammer transmits Gaussian noise (GN) to enhance security; however, the GN scheme also degrades the legitimate receiver's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Hao Yang , Hao Xu , Kai Wan , Sijie Zhao , Robert Caiming Qiu

This letter proposes anti-jamming strategies based on pilot retransmission for a single user uplink massive MIMO under jamming attack. A jammer is assumed to attack the system both in the training and data transmission phases. We first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Tan Tai Do , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trung Q. Duong , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

This work addresses a reactive jamming attack on the low-latency messages of a victim, wherein the jammer deploys countermeasure detection mechanisms to change its strategy. We highlight that the existing schemes against reactive jammers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Vivek Chaudhary , J. Harshan