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This paper reveals the potential of movable antennas in enhancing anti-jamming communication. We consider a legitimate communication link in the presence of multiple jammers and propose deploying a movable antenna array at the receiver to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Xiao Tang , Yudan Jiang , Jinxin Liu , Qinghe Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Malicious jamming launched by smart jammer, which attacks legitimate transmissions has been regarded as one of the critical security challenges in wireless communications. Thus, this paper exploits intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Qingqing Wu , Massimo Tornatore , Stefano Secci

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

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

We study the impact of signal jamming attacks against the communication based train control (CBTC) systems and develop the countermeasures to limit the attacks' impact. CBTC supports the train operation automation and moving-block…

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 the framework of 5G-and-beyond Industry 4.0, jamming attacks for denial of service are a rising threat which can severely compromise the system performance. Therefore, in this paper we deal with the problem of jamming detection and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Leonardo Chiarello , Paolo Baracca , Karthik Upadhya , Saeed R. Khosravirad , Silvio Mandelli , Thorsten Wild

The uses of Machine Learning (ML) in detection of network attacks have been effective when designed and evaluated in a single organisation. However, it has been very challenging to design an ML-based detection system by utilising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Mohanad Sarhan , Siamak Layeghy , Nour Moustafa , Marius Portmann

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

Wireless systems must be resilient to jamming attacks. Existing mitigation methods based on multi-antenna processing require knowledge of the jammer's transmit characteristics that may be difficult to acquire, especially for smart jammers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Gian Marti , Torben Kölle , Christoph Studer

Attack detection problems in the smart grid are posed as statistical learning problems for different attack scenarios in which the measurements are observed in batch or online settings. In this approach, machine learning algorithms are used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Mete Ozay , Inaki Esnaola , Fatos T. Yarman Vural , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

Conventional anti-jamming method mostly rely on frequency hopping to hide or escape from jammer. These approaches are not efficient in terms of bandwidth usage and can also result in a high probability of jamming. Different from existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum , Aidin Ferdowsi , Walid Saad

In this letter, we investigate the anti-jamming defense problem in multi-user scenarios, where the coordination among users is taken into consideration. The Markov game framework is employed to model and analyze the anti-jamming defense…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Fuqiang Yao , Luliang Jia

The emerging wide area monitoring systems (WAMS) have brought significant improvements in electric grids' situational awareness. However, the newly introduced system can potentially increase the risk of cyber-attacks, which may be disguised…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Gabriel Intriago , Yu Zhang

Next-generation wireless networks are progressing beyond conventional connectivity to incorporate emerging sensing and computing capabilities. This convergence gives rise to integrated systems that enable not only uninterrupted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ruiqi Liu , Beixiong Zheng , Jemin Lee , Si-Hyeon Lee , Georges Kaddoum , Onur Günlü , Deniz Gündüz

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

While the millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is robust against the conventional wiretapping attack due to its short transmission range and directivity, this paper proposes a new opportunistic wiretapping and jamming (OWJ) attack model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yuanyu Zhang , Zhumeng Zheng , Ji He , Shuangrui Zhao , Qianyue Qu , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang

In this work we study the problem of misbehavior detection in wireless networks. A commonly adopted approach is to utilize the broadcasting nature of the wireless medium and have nodes monitor their neighborhood. We call such nodes the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-10-07 Guanfeng Liang , Nitin Vaidya

This work takes a critical look at the application of conventional machine learning methods to wireless communication problems through the lens of reliability and robustness. Deep learning techniques adopt a frequentist framework, and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Matteo Zecchin , Sangwoo Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Marios Kountouris , David Gesbert

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