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Signal-strength models of wireless communications capture the gradual fading of signals and the additivity of interference. As such, they are closer to reality than other models. However, nearly all theoretic work in the SINR model depends…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Marijke H. L. Bodlaender , Magnús M. Halldórsson

As graph data becomes more ubiquitous, the need for robust inferential graph algorithms to operate in these complex data domains is crucial. In many cases of interest, inference is further complicated by the presence of adversarial data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-23 Sheyda Peyman , Minh Tang , Vince Lyzinski

We address the resilience of future 6G MIMO communications by considering an uplink scenario where multiple legitimate transmitters try to communicate with a base station in the presence of an adversarial jammer. The jammer possesses full…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-15 Vlad C. Andrei , Xinyang Li , Ullrich J. Mönich , Holger Boche

As wireless systems grow rapidly worldwide, one of the most important things, wireless systems designers and service providers faces is interference. Interference decreases coverage, capacity [1], and limits the effectiveness of both new…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Zeeshan Haider , Muhammad Saleem , T. Jamal

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

Efficient radio spectrum utilization and low energy consumption in mobile devices are essential in developing next generation wireless networks. This paper presents a new medium access control (MAC) mechanism to enhance spectrum efficiency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kamal Rahimi Malekshan , Weihua Zhuang , Yves Lostanlen

The focus of this study is on the spectrum sharing between multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications and co-located MIMO radar systems in multi-path environments. The major challenge is to suppress the mutual interference between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Haoyu Zhang , Li Chen , Kaifeng Han , Yunfei Chen , Guo Wei

We design a cross-layer approach to optimize the joint use of multi-packet reception and network coding, in order to relieve congestion. We construct a model for the behavior of the 802.11 MAC and apply it to several key canonical topology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Jason Cloud , Linda Zeger , Muriel Médard

In this paper, we consider how the uplink transmission of a spatially correlated massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system can be protected from a jamming attack. To suppress the jamming, we propose a novel framework including a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Hossein Akhlaghpasand , Emil Björnson , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

Dense, unmanaged 802.11 deployments tempt saboteurs into launching jamming attacks by injecting malicious interference. Nowadays, jammers can be portable devices that transmit intermittently at low power in order to conserve energy. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-06-18 Konstantinos Pelechrinis , Ioannis Broustis , Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy , Christos Gkantsidis

Meeting the challenges of 5G demands better exploitation of the available spectrum by allowing multiple parties to share resources. For instance, a secondary unlicensed system can share resources with the cellular uplink of a primary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Ali Kariminezhad , Anas Chaaban , Aydin Sezgin

In this study we explore the performance gain that can be achieved at the network level by employing successive interference cancelation (SIC) instead of treating interference as noise for random access wireless mesh networks with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-12 Nikolaos Pappas , Manolis Ploumidis , Apostolos Traganitis

We describe a new synchronous and distributed medium access control (MAC) protocol for multihop wireless networks that provides bandwidth guarantees to unicast connections. Our MAC protocol is based on a slotted time division multiple…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jennifer Andreoli-Fang , George Kondylis

This paper addresses the challenge of anti-jamming in moving reactive jamming scenarios. The moving reactive jammer initiates high-power tracking jamming upon detecting any transmission activity, and when unable to detect a signal, resorts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yangyang Li , Yuhua Xu , Wen Li , Guoxin Li , Zhibing Feng , Songyi Liu , Jiatao Du , Xinran Li

A fundamental aspect in performance engineering of wireless networks is optimizing the set of links that can be concurrently activated to meet given signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) thresholds. The solution of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Di Yuan , Vangelis Angelakis , Lei Chen , Eleftherios Karipidis , Erik G. Larsson

Predictions for wireless and mobile Internet access suggest exponential traffic increase particularly in inbuilding environments. Non-traditional actors such as facility owners have a growing interest in deploying and operating their own…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-15 Du Ho Kang , Ki Won Sung , Jens Zander

Interference is a major impediment to the performance of a wireless network as it has a significant adverse impact on Network Capacity. There has been a gradual and consistent densification of WiFi networks due to Overlapping Basic Service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Srikant Manas Kala , Winston K. G. Seah , Vanlin Sathya , Betty Lala

We consider the problem of stealthy communication over a multipath network in the presence of an active adversary. The multipath network consists of multiple parallel noiseless links, and the adversary is able to eavesdrop and jam a subset…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Jianhan Song , Qiaosheng Zhang , Swanand Kadhe , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

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

We propose the use of adversarial wireless jamming to regularise the latent space of an autoencoder to match a diagonal Gaussian distribution. We consider the minimisation of a mean squared error distortion, where a jammer attempts to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Waleed El-Geresy , Deniz Gündüz