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The existing research on physical layer security commonly assumes the number of eavesdropper antennas to be known. Although this assumption allows one to easily compute the achievable secrecy rate, it can hardly be realized in practice. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou , Thushara D. Abhayapala

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

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

In this paper, we study the problem of physical layer security in the uplink of millimeter-wave massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks and propose a jamming detection and suppression method. The proposed method is based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Saeed Bagherinejad1 , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

Wireless data communications are always facing the risk of eavesdropping and interception. Conventional protection solutions which are based on encryption may not always be practical as is the case for wireless IoT networks or may soon…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Faycal Bouhafs , Neda Aboutorab , Parastoo Sadeghi , Frank den Hartog

This letter proposes a novel dual user selection scheme for uplink transmission with multiple users, where a jamming user and a served user are jointly selected to improve the secrecy performance. Specifically, the jamming user transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hao Deng , Hui-Ming Wang , Wenjie Wang , Moon Ho Lee

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

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

This paper adopts the antenna selection technique to enhance the covert rate in a wireless communication network comprised of a source, a destination , an external jammer and an eavesdropper. In the covert communication, the level of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-27 Morteza Sarkheil , Paeiz Azmi , Moslem Forouzesh , Ali Kuhestani

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

This paper develops a novel framework to defeat a super-reactive jammer, one of the most difficult jamming attacks to deal with in practice. Specifically, the jammer has an unlimited power budget and is equipped with the self-interference…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Nguyen Van Huynh , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Thang X. Vu , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Symeon Chatzinotas

In this work, we address reliable communication of low-latency packets in the presence of a full-duplex adversary that is capable of executing a jamming attack while also being able to measure the power levels on various frequency bands.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Vivek Chaudhary , J. Harshan

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

This paper considers wireless-powered cooperative jamming (CJ) to secure communication between a transmitter (Tx) and an information receiver (IR), in the presence of an energy receiver (ER) which is termed as a potential eavesdropper. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Mengyu Liu , Yuan Liu

In this paper, we consider a homogenous multi-antenna downlink network where a passive eavesdropper intends to intercept the communication between a base station (BS) and multiple secure users (SU) over Rayleigh fading channels. In order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Xiaoming Chen , Yu Zhang

Security attacks at the physical layer, in the form of radio jamming for denial of service, are an increasing threat in the Industry 4.0 scenarios. In this paper, we consider the problem of jamming detection in 5G-and-beyond communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Leonardo Chiarello , Paolo Baracca , Karthik Upadhya , Saeed R. Khosravirad , Thorsten Wild

In this paper, we propose to use a wireless-powered friendly jammer to enable secure communication between a source node and destination node, in the presence of an eavesdropper. We consider a two-phase communication protocol with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Wanchun Liu , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Petar Popovski

This paper studies the information-theoretic secrecy performance in large-scale cellular networks based on a stochastic geometry framework. The locations of both base stations and mobile users are modeled as independent two-dimensional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-09 He Wang , Xiangyun Zhou , Mark C. Reed

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

This paper presents a framework for converting wireless signals into structured datasets, which can be fed into machine learning algorithms for the detection of active eavesdropping attacks at the physical layer. More specifically, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Tiep M. Hoang , Trung Q. Duong , Hoang Duong Tuan , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Emi Garcia-Palacios , Long D. Nguyen