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The study of network robustness is a critical tool in the characterization and sense making of complex interconnected systems such as infrastructure, communication and social networks. While significant research has been conducted in all of…

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The capability of nodes to broadcast their message to the entire wireless network when nodes employ cooperation is considered. We employ an asymptotic analysis using an extended random network setting and show that the broadcast performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Cagatay Capar , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley

Jamming attacks on wireless networked control systems are investigated for the scenarios where the system dynamics face exogenous disturbance. In particular, the control input packets are assumed to be transmitted from a controller to a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ahmet Cetinkaya , Hideaki Ishii , Tomohisa Hayakawa

Jamming attacks pose a critical threat to wireless networks, particularly in cell-free massive MIMO systems, where distributed access points and user equipment (UE) create complex, time-varying topologies. This paper proposes a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Hossary , Laura Crosara , Stefano Tomasin

Software vulnerabilities remain a persistent risk, yet static and dynamic analyses often overlook structural dependencies that shape insecure behaviors. Viewing programs as heterogeneous graphs, we capture control- and data-flow relations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jugal Gajjar , Kaustik Ranaware , Kamalasankari Subramaniakuppusamy

Wireless networks are vulnerable to jamming attacks due to the shared communication medium, which can severely degrade performance and disrupt services. Despite extensive research, current jamming detection methods often rely on simulated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ioannis Panitsas , Yagmur Yigit , Leandros Tassiulas , Leandros Maglaras , Berk Canberk

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

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

We suggest an approach to study hierarchy, especially hidden one, of complex networks based on the analysis of their vulnerability. Two quantities are proposed as a measure of network hierarchy. The first one is the system vulnerability V.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Gol'dshtein , G. A. Koganov , G. I. Surdutovich

An intuitive overview of the scalability of a variety of types of wireless networks is presented. Simple heuris- tic arguments are demonstrated here for scaling laws presented in other works, as well as for conditions not previously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-26 Linda Zeger , Muriel Médard

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

We study the response of complex networks subject to attacks on vertices and edges. Several existing complex network models as well as real-world networks of scientific collaborations and Internet traffic are numerically investigated, and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Petter Holme , Beom Jun Kim , Chang No Yoon , Seung Kee Han

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a self-configure network of sensor nodes communicate among themselves using radio signals and deployed in quantity to sense, monitor and to understand the physical world. A jammer is an entity which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Manojkumar. M. K , Sathya. D

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

Generally, networks are classified into two sides of inequality and equality with respect to the number of links at nodes by the types of degree distributions. One side includes many social, technological, and biological networks which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-01 Yukio Hayashi , Taishi Ogawa

Graph-based learning provides a powerful framework for modeling complex relational structures; however, its application within the domain of wireless security remains significantly underexplored. In this work, we introduce the first…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Dania Herzalla , Willian T. Lunardi , Martin Andreoni

Existing communication systems exhibit inherent limitations in translating theory to practice when handling the complexity of optimization for emerging wireless applications with high degrees of freedom. Deep learning has a strong potential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Tugba Erpek , Timothy J. O'Shea , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Yi Shi , T. Charles Clancy

Conventional wireless security assumes wireless communications are rightful and aims to protect them against malicious eavesdropping and jamming attacks. However, emerging infrastructure-free mobile communication networks are likely to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

We introduce the concept of network susceptibilities quantifying the response of the collective dy- namics of a network to small parameter changes. We distinguish two types of susceptibilities: vertex susceptibilities and edge…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-02-01 Debsankha Manik , Martin Rohden , Henrik Ronellenfitsch , Xiaozhu Zhang , Sarah Hallerberg , Dirk Witthaut , Marc Timme

The weight of links in a network is often related to the similarity of the nodes. Here, we introduce a simple tunable measure for analysing the similarity of nodes across different link weights. In particular, we use the measure to analyze…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Anders Mollgaard , Ingo Zettler , Jesper Dammeyer , Mogens H. Jensen , Sune Lehmann , Joachim Mathiesen