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Due to the recent developments in the field of full-duplex radios and cognitive radios, a new class of reactive jamming attacks has gained attention wherein an adversary transmits jamming energy over the victim's frequency band and also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Soumita Hazra , J. Harshan

Quantum resources can be more powerful than classical resources - a quantum computer can solve certain problems exponentially faster than a classical computer, and computing a function of two people's inputs can be done with exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-05 Christopher Perry , Rahul Jain , Jonathan Oppenheim

Recent work has established that when transmitter Alice wishes to communicate reliably to recipient Bob without detection by warden Willie, with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels between all parties, communication is limited to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Tamara V. Sobers , Boulat A. Bash , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley , Dennis Goeckel

We formulate the interaction between the communicating nodes and an adversary within a game-theoretic context. We show that earlier information-theoretic capacity results for a jammed channel correspond to a pure Nash Equilibrium (NE).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Koorosh Firouzbakht , Guevara Noubir , Masoud Salehi

This letter presents a fast reinforcement learning algorithm for anti-jamming communications which chooses previous action with probability $\tau$ and applies $\epsilon$-greedy with probability $(1-\tau)$. A dynamic threshold based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Pei-Gen Ye , Yuan-Gen Wang , Jin Li , Liang Xiao

We employ a game theoretic approach to formulate communication between two nodes over a wireless link in the presence of an adversary. We define a constrained, two-player, zero-sum game between a transmitter/receiver pair with adaptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-10 Koorosh Firouzbakht , Guevara Noubir , Masoud Salehi

In this paper, we study jamming attacks against wireless networks. Specifically, we consider a network of base stations (BS) or access points (AP) and investigate the impact of a fixed number of jammers that are randomly deployed according…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 SaiDhiraj Amuru , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

A wireless communication network is considered, consisting of a source (Alice), a destination (Bob) and an eavesdropper (Eve), each equipped with a single antenna. The communication is assisted by multiple helpers, each equipped with two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Shuangyu Luo , Jiangyuan Li , Athina Petropulu

For multi-band wireless ad hoc networks of multiple users, an anti-jamming game between the users and a jammer is studied. In this game, the users (resp. jammer) want to maximize (resp. minimize) the expected rewards of the users taking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Hyeon-Seong Im , Si-Hyeon Lee

Due to its scale and largely interconnected nature, the Internet of Things (IoT) will be vulnerable to a number of security threats that range from physical layer attacks to network layer attacks. In this paper, a novel anti-jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Nima Namvar , Walid Saad , Niloofar Bahadori , Brian Kelley

In this work we consider the communication of information in the presence of a causal adversarial jammer. In the setting under study, a sender wishes to communicate a message to a receiver by transmitting a codeword x=(x_1,...,x_n)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-28 Michael Langberg , Sidharth Jaggi , Bikash Kumar Dey

This article investigates the anti-jamming communications problem in wireless networks from a Stackelberg game perspective. By exploring and analyzing the inherent characteristics of the anti-jamming problem, we present and discuss some…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Luliang Jia , Yuhua Xu , Youming Sun , Shuo Feng , Alagan Anpalagan

In this paper, we study covert communications between {a pair of} legitimate transmitter-receiver against a watchful warden over slow fading channels. There coexist multiple friendly helper nodes who are willing to protect the covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Tong-Xing Zheng , Ziteng Yang , Chao Wang , Zan Li , Jinhong Yuan , Xiaohong Guan

Cognitive (Radio) (CR) Communications (CC) are mainly deployed within the environments of primary (user) communications, where the channel states and accessibility are usually stochastically distributed (benign or IID). However, many…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Pan Zhou , Chenhui Hu , Tao Jiang , Dapeng Wu

Jamming attacks target a wireless network creating an unwanted denial of service. 5G is vulnerable to these attacks despite its resilience prompted by the use of millimeter wave bands. Over the last decade, several types of jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Youness Arjoune , Fatima Salahdine , Md. Shoriful Islam , Elias Ghribi , Naima Kaabouch

The effectiveness and simple implementation of physical layer jammers make them an essential threat for wireless networks. In a multihop wireless network, where jammers can interfere with the transmission of user messages at intermediate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Majid Ghaderi , Hossein Pishro-Nik , Dennis Goeckel

We consider the problem of communicating information over a network secretly and reliably in the presence of a hidden adversary who can eavesdrop and inject malicious errors. We provide polynomial-time, rate-optimal distributed network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Hongyi Yao , Danilo Silva , Sidharth Jaggi , Michael Langberg

Network slicing is a pivotal paradigm in wireless networks enabling customized services to users and applications. Yet, intelligent jamming attacks threaten the performance of network slicing. In this paper, we focus on the security aspect…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Shavbo Salehi , Hao Zhou , Medhat Elsayed , Majid Bavand , Raimundas Gaigalas , Yigit Ozcan , Melike Erol-Kantarci

This work derives bounds on the jamming capacity of a slotted ALOHA system. A system with n legitimate users, each with a Bernoulli arrival process is considered. Packets are temporarily stored at the corresponding user queues, and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-06 Sandeep Bhadra , Shreeshankar Bodas , Sanjay Shakkottai , Sriram Vishwanath

Hiding the wireless communication by transmitter Alice to intended receiver Bob from a capable and attentive adversary Willie has been widely studied under the moniker "covert communications". However, when such covert communication is done…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ali Mohammadi Teshnizi , Majid Ghaderi , Dennis Goeckel