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With the advent of intelligent jammers, jamming attacks have become a more severe threat to the performance of wireless systems. An intelligent jammer is able to change its policy to minimize the probability of being traced by legitimate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum , Walid Saad

There is a rich recent literature on how to assist secure communication between a single transmitter and receiver at the physical layer of wireless networks through techniques such as cooperative jamming. In this paper, we consider how…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Majid Ghaderi , Dennis Goeckel , Ariel Orda , Mostafa Dehghan

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be integrated into wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for smart city applications in several ways. Among them, a UAV can be employed as a relay in a "store-carry and forward" fashion by uploading data from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Donatella Darsena , Giacinto Gelli , Ivan Iudice , Francesco Verde

Wireless communication infrastructure is a cornerstone of modern digital society, yet it remains vulnerable to the persistent threat of wireless jamming. Attackers can easily create radio interference to overshadow legitimate signals,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Philipp Mackensen , Paul Staat , Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin , Christof Paar , Veelasha Moonsamy

Wireless communications are vulnerable against radio frequency (RF) jamming which might be caused either intentionally or unintentionally. A particular subset of wireless networks, vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET) which incorporate a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Dimitrios Kosmanos , Dimitrios Karagiannis , Antonios Argyriou , Spyros Lalis , Leandros Maglaras

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are fundamental in ubiquitously providing position and time to a wide gamut of systems. Jamming remains a realistic threat in many deployment settings, civilian and tactical. Specifically, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Marco Spanghero , Filip Geib , Ronny Panier , Panos Papadimitratos

In advanced jamming, the adversary intentionally concentrates the available energy budget on specific critical components (e.g., pilot symbols, acknowledgement packets, etc.) to (i) increase the jamming effectiveness, as more targets can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Liyang Zhang , Francesco Restuccia , Tommaso Melodia , Scott M. Pudleswki

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

It is well known that GNSS receivers are vulnerable to jamming and spoofing attacks, and numerous such incidents have been reported in the last decade all over the world. The notion of participatory sensing, or crowdsensing, is that a large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Glädje Karl Olsson , Sara Nilsson , Erik Axell , Erik G. Larsson , Panos Papadimitratos

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

Cooperative jamming is an approach that has been recently proposed for improving physical layer based security for wireless networks in the presence of an eavesdropper. While the source transmits its message to its destination, a relay node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-30 Lun Dong , Zhu Han , Athina P. Petropulu , H. Vincent Poor

Due to the increased usage of spectrum caused by the exponential growth of wireless devices, detecting and avoiding interference has become an increasingly relevant problem to ensure uninterrupted wireless communications. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Clifton Paul Robinson , Daniel Uvaydov , Salvatore D'Oro , Tommaso Melodia

In Wireless Sensor Networks, sensors are used for tracking objects, monitoring health and observing a region/territory for different environmental parameters. Coverage problem in sensor network ensures quality of monitoring a given region.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Dinesh Dash , Anurag Dasgupta

Although monitoring and covering are fundamental goals of a wireless sensor network (WSN), the accidental death of sensors or the running out of their energy would result in holes in the WSN. Such holes have the potential to disrupt the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mansoor Davoodi , Esmaeil Delfaraz , Sajjad Ghobadi , Mahtab Masoori

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed of nodes that gather metrics like temperature, pollution or pressure from events generated by external entities. Localization in WSNs is paramount, given that the collected metrics must be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Luis Sanabria-Russo , Cristina Cano , Boris Bellalta

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

5G cellular networks are particularly vulnerable against narrowband jammers that target specific control sub-channels in the radio signal. One mitigation approach is to detect such jamming attacks with an online observation system, based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Matteo Varotto , Florian Heinrichs , Timo Schuerg , Stefano Tomasin , Stefan Valentin

Suppressing the deliberate interference for wireless networks is critical to guarantee a reliable communication link. However, nullifying the jamming signals can be problematic when the correlations between transmitted jamming signals are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Linh Manh Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , J. Andrew Zhang , Dinh Thai Hoang

Joint Communication and Sensing (JCAS) is taking its first shape in WLAN sensing under IEEE 802.11bf, where standardized WLAN signals and protocols are exploited to enable radar-like sensing. However, an overlooked problem in JCAS, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-03 Hasan Can Yildirim , Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch , François Horlin