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Wireless communication systems, such as wireless sensor networks and RFIDs, are increasingly adopted to transfer potential highly sensitive information. Since the wireless medium has a sharing nature, adversaries have a chance to eavesdrop…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Jialin Wan , Siyao Cheng , Shanshan Han , Jianzhong Li

The classic MIMO wiretap channel comprises a passive eavesdropper that attempts to intercept communications between an authorized transmitter-receiver pair, each node being equipped with multiple antennas. In a dynamic network, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Amitav Mukherjee , A. Lee Swindlehurst

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

State-of-the-art solutions detect jamming attacks ex-post, i.e., only when jamming has already disrupted the wireless communication link. In many scenarios, e.g., mobile networks or static deployments distributed over a large geographical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Martijn Hanegraaf , Savio Sciancalepore , Gabriele Oligeri

Thanks to their quick placement and high flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be very useful in the current and future wireless communication systems. With a growing number of smart devices and infrastructure-free communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Shuyan Hu , Qingqing Wu , Xin Wang

Semantic communications conveys task-relevant meaning rather than focusing solely on message reconstruction, improving bandwidth efficiency and robustness for next-generation wireless systems. However, learned semantic representations can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

Wireless communications are particularly vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks due to their broadcast nature. To effectively deal with eavesdroppers, existing security techniques usually require accurate channel state information (CSI), e.g.,…

This paper investigates a distant proactive eavesdropping system in cooperative cognitive radio (CR) networks. Specifically, an amplify-and-forward (AF) full-duplex (FD) secondary transmitter assists to relay the received signal from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yao Ge , P. C. Ching

We investigate the problem of reliable communication between two legitimate parties over deletion channels under an active eavesdropping (aka jamming) adversarial model. To this goal, we develop a theoretical framework based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-12 Shahab Asoodeh , Yi Huang , Ishanu Chattopadhyay

We consider the problem of polar coding for secure communications over the two-way wiretap channel, where two legitimate users communicate with each other simultaneously while a passive eavesdropper overhears a combination of their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Mengfan Zheng , Meixia Tao , Wen Chen , Cong Ling

Secure communications can be impeded by eavesdroppers in conventional relay systems. This paper proposes cooperative jamming strategies for two-hop relay networks where the eavesdropper can wiretap the relay channels in both hops. In these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Jing Huang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Cognitive radio is an intelligent and adaptive radio that improves the utilization of the spectrum by its opportunistic sharing. However, it is inherently vulnerable to primary user emulation and jamming attacks that degrade the spectrum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 H. M. Furqan , M. A. Aygul , M. Nazzal , H. Arslan

Exploring the interference-emitting friendly jammers to protect the sensitive communications in the presence of eavesdroppers has increasingly being investigated in literature. In parallel, scavenging energy from abient radio signals for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Pan Zhou

Wireless relays can effectively extend the transmission range of information. However, if relay technology is utilized unlawfully, it can amplify potential harm. Effectively surveilling illegitimate relay links poses a challenging problem.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Qian Dan , Hongjiang Lei , Ki-Hong Park , Weijia Lei , Gaofeng Pan

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) have emerged as a viable solution for maritime communications. In these maritime LAWNs, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serve as practical low-altitude platforms for wireless communications due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiawei Huang , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Weijie Yuan , Dusit Niyato , Xianbin Wang

Most of the current anti-jamming algorithms for wireless communications only consider how to avoid jamming attacks, but ignore that the communication waveform or frequency action may be obtained by the jammers. Although existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Yifan Wang , Xin Liu , Mei Wang , Yu Yu

The widespread smart devices raise people's concerns of being eavesdropped on. To enhance voice privacy, recent studies exploit the nonlinearity in microphone to jam audio recorders with inaudible ultrasound. However, existing solutions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Peng Huang , Yao Wei , Peng Cheng , Zhongjie Ba , Li Lu , Feng Lin , Yang Wang , Kui Ren

The integration of sensing, communications, array signal processing, etc. into 6G mobile networks has ushered in an era of heightened situational awareness. However, this progress brings forth significant concerns regarding privacy and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Pu Xie , Yang Huang

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, the broadcast nature of wireless channels makes SemCom systems vulnerable to eavesdropping, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shunpu Tang , Yuhao Chen , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Zhiguo Shi

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