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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

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

Underutilized wireless channel is a waste of spectral resource. Eavesdropping compromises data secrecy. How to overcome the two problems with one solution? In this paper, we propose a spectrum sharing model that defends against…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Yee-Loo Foo

Because of the open access nature of wireless communications, wireless networks can suffer from malicious activity, such as jamming attacks, aimed at undermining the network's ability to sustain communication links and acceptable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Ying Liu , Andrey Garnaev , Wade Trappe

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) emerges as a paradigm to achieve ubiquitous connectivity via wireless communications between kinds of physical objects. Due to the wireless broadcasting nature and the energy constraint of physical objects,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Qinghe Gao , Yan Huo , Tao Jing , Liran Ma , Jin Qian

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

Instead of against eavesdropping, this letter proposes a new paradigm in wireless security by studying how a legitimate monitor (e.g., government agencies) efficiently eavesdrops a suspicious wireless communication link. The suspicious…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

Wavefront engineering for applications in near-field wireless connectivity is gradually becoming common ground. In this landscape, beams that propagate on bent paths are ideal candidates for dynamic blockage avoidance and suppression of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Sotiris Droulias , Giorgos Stratidakis , Angeliki Alexiou

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications are highly promising to improve the capacity of modern wireless networks, while the physical layer security (PLS) techniques hold great potential to enhance the critical secrecy performance therein.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Yuanyu Zhang , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang , Shoji Kasahara

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

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 Design of new wireless communication systems for industrial applications, e.g. control applications, is currently a hot research topic, as they deal as a key enabler for more flexible solutions at a lower cost compared to systems based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Andreas Weinand , Michael Karrenbauer , Hans D. Schotten

Security threats such as jamming and route manipulation can have significant consequences on the performance of modern wireless networks. To increase the efficacy and stealthiness of such threats, a number of extremely challenging,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Liyang Zhang , Francesco Restuccia , Tommaso Melodia , Scott M. Pudlewski

Due to the broadcast nature of radio propagation, the wireless transmission can be readily overheard by unauthorized users for interception purposes and is thus highly vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks. To this end, physical-layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yulong Zou , Jia Zhu , Xianbin Wang , Victor C. M. Leung

Physical layer security is essential in optical networks. In this paper, we study a jamming-aware control plane, in which a high power jamming attack exists in the network. The studied control plane considers that the jammed connections can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Ítalo Brasileiro , Mounir Bensalem , André Drummond , Admela Jukan

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) has become a crucial enabling technology for 5G and beyond, providing previously unheard-of increases in energy and spectrum efficiency. It is still difficult to guarantee secure communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Nipun Agarwal

This paper studies physical layer security in a wireless ad hoc network with numerous legitimate transmitter-receiver pairs and eavesdroppers. A hybrid full-/half-duplex receiver deployment strategy is proposed to secure legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Jinhong Yuan , Zhu Han , Moon Ho Lee

This thesis focuses on the wireless security in the physical layer with beamforming technique. One of the emerging areas is the security enhancement in the physical layer, which exploits the intrinsic properties of the wireless medium.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Yuanrui Zhang

Physical layer security has recently been regarded as an emerging technique to complement and improve the communication security in future wireless networks. The current research and development in physical layer security is often based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical-layer security has attracted increasing concerns from both academia and industry. Artificial noise (AN), as one of the promising physical-layer security techniques, is capable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Hong Niu , Yue Xiao , Xia Lei , Jiangong Chen , Zhihan Xiao , Mao Li , Chau Yuen