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Trusted identification is critical to secure IoT devices. However, the limited memory and computation power of low-end IoT devices prevent the direct usage of conventional identification systems. RF fingerprinting is a promising technique…

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In this paper we assess the security performance of key-less physical layer authentication schemes in the case of time-varying fading channels, considering both partial and no channel state information (CSI) on the receiver's side. We first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Linda Senigagliesi , Marco Baldi , Ennio Gambi

This thesis focuses on the wireless security in the physical layer with beamforming technique. One of the emerging areas is the security enhancement in the physical layer, which exploits the intrinsic properties of the wireless medium.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Yuanrui Zhang

The physical layer security in the up-link of the wireless communication systems is often modeled as the multiple access wiretap channel (MAC-WT), and recently it has received a lot attention. In this paper, the MAC-WT has been re-visited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Bin Dai , Zheng Ma

The growing number of wireless devices increases the need for secure network access. Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF), a physical-layer authentication method, offers a promising solution as it requires no cryptography and resists…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Rundong Jiang , Jun Hu , Zhiyuan Xie , Yunqi Song , Shiyou Xu

Physical layer security which safeguards data confidentiality based on the information-theoretic approaches has received significant research interest recently. The key idea behind physical layer security is to utilize the intrinsic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Yongpeng Wu , Ashish Khisti , Chengshan Xiao , Giuseppe Caire , Kai-Kit Wong , Xiqi Gao

Programmable wireless environments enable the software-defined propagation of waves within them, yielding exceptional performance potential. Several building-block technologies have been implemented and evaluated at the physical layer. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Christos Liaskos , Ageliki Tsioliaridou , Shuai Nie , Andreas Pitsillides , Sotiris Ioannidis , Ian Akyildiz

The article presents a method of organizing men-in-the-middle attack and penetration test on Bluetooth Low Energy devices and ZigBee packets using software define radio with sniffing and spoofing packets, capture and analysis techniques on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Mahyar TajDini , Volodymyr Sokolov , Volodymyr Buriachok

Conventionally, secrecy is achieved using cryptographic techniques beyond the physical layer. Recent studies raise the interest of performing encryption within the physical layer by exploiting some unique features of the physical wireless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-19 Suzhi Bi , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying Jun Zhang

Current security techniques can be implemented either by requiring a secret key exchange or depending on assumptions about the communication channels. In this paper, we show that, by using a physical layer technique known as artificial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Shuiyin Liu , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is a state-of-the-art technology designed for applications requiring centimeter-level localization. Its widespread adoption by smartphone manufacturer naturally raises security and privacy concerns. Successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Thibaud Ardoin , Niklas Pauli , Benedikt Groß , Mahsa Kholghi , Khan Reaz , Gerhard Wunder

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development in the research topic of WiFi sensing that automatically senses human with commercial WiFi devices. This work falls into two major categories, i.e., the activity recognition and the indoor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Fei Wang , Jianwei Feng , Yinliang Zhao , Xiaobin Zhang , Shiyuan Zhang , Jinsong Han

Consider impersonation attack by an active malicious nano node (Eve) on a diffusion based molecular communication (DbMC) system---Eve transmits during the idle slots to deceive the nano receiver (Bob) that she is indeed the legitimate nano…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Sidra Zafar , Waqas Aman , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Akram Alomainy , Qammer H. Abbasi

In the era of big data, anonymity is recognized as an important attribute in privacy-preserving communications. The existing anonymous authentication and routing are applied at higher layers of networks, ignoring physical layer (PHY) also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Zhongxiang Wei , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , H. Vincent Poor

With the rapid development of wireless communication technology, wireless access points (AP) and internet of things (IoT) devices have been widely deployed in our surroundings. Various types of wireless signals (e.g., Wi-Fi, LoRa, LTE) are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Zheng Yang , Yi Zhang , Guoxuan Chi , Guidong Zhang

Fifth generation (5G) network and beyond envision massive Internet of Things (IoT) rollout to support disruptive applications such as extended reality (XR), augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), industrial automation, autonomous driving, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Anu Jagannath , Jithin Jagannath , Prem Sagar Pattanshetty Vasanth Kumar

With growing popularity of mobile Internet, providing secure wireless services has become a critical issue. Physical layer security (PHY-security) has been recognized as an effective means to enhance wireless security by exploiting wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaoming Chen , Caijun Zhong , Chau Yuen , Hsiao-Hwa Chen

Personal authentication is an important process we encounter almost every day; when we are logging on a computer, entering a company where we work, or a restricted area, when we are using our plastic credit cards to pay for a service or to…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Darko Fuduric , Marko Horvat , Mario Zagar

Today's societies are enveloped in an ever-growing telecommunication infrastructure. This infrastructure offers important opportunities for sensing and recording a multitude of human behaviors. Human mobility patterns are a prominent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Piotr Sapiezynski , Arkadiusz Stopczynski , David Kofoed Wind , Jure Leskovec , Sune Lehmann

Secure communications is becoming increasingly relevant in the development of space technology. Well established cryptographic technology is already in place and is expected to continue to be so. On the other hand, information theoretical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Angeles Vazquez-Castro , Masahito Hayashi