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In this paper, a novel covert semantic communication framework is investigated. Within this framework, a server extracts and transmits the semantic information, i.e., the meaning of image data, to a user over several time slots. An attacker…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenjing Zhang , Ye Hu , Tao Luo , Zhilong Zhang , Mingzhe Chen

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

Motivated by the need to secure cyber-physical systems against attacks, we consider the problem of estimating the state of a noisy linear dynamical system when a subset of sensors is arbitrarily corrupted by an adversary. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Shaunak Mishra , Yasser Shoukry , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi , Paulo Tabuada

Jamming refers to the deletion, corruption or damage of meter measurements that prevents their further usage. This is distinct from adversarial data injection that changes meter readings while preserving their utility in state estimation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Deepjyoti Deka , Ross Baldick , Sriram Vishwanath

Meter measurements in the power grid are susceptible to manipulation by adversaries, that can lead to errors in state estimation. This paper presents a general framework to study attacks on state estimation by adversaries capable of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Deepjyoti Deka , Ross Baldick , Sriram Vishwanath

In this paper, we consider a status update system, where an access point collects measurements from multiple sensors that monitor a common physical process, fuses them, and transmits the aggregated sample to the destination over an erasure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Guidan Yao , Chih-Chun Wang , Ness B. Shroff

Real-time monitoring applications have Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices sense and communicate information (status updates) to a monitoring facility. Such applications desire the status updates available at the monitor to be fresh and would…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Sneihil Gopal , Sanjit K. Kaul , Rakesh Chaturvedi

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

A status updating system is considered in which data from multiple sources are sampled by an energy harvesting sensor and transmitted to a remote destination through an erasure channel. The goal is to deliver status updates of all sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Ahmed Arafa , Jing Yang , Sennur Ulukus , H. Vincent Poor

This work proposes a distributed estimation and control approach in which a team of aerial agents equipped with radio jamming devices collaborate in order to intercept and concurrently track-and-jam a malicious target, while at the same…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Georgios Ellinas

This paper addresses the secure state estimation problem for continuous linear time-invariant systems with non-periodic and asynchronous sampled measurements, where the sensors need to transmit not only measurements but also sampling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Zishuo Li , Anh Tung Nguyen , André M. H. Teixeira , Yilin Mo , Karl H. Johansson

We assume that a buffer-aided transmitter communicates with a receiving node in the presence of an attacker. We investigate the impact of a radio-frequency energy-harvesting attacker that probabilistically operates as a jammer or an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Ahmed El Shafie , Kamel Tourki , Zhiguo Ding , Naofal Al-Dhahir

We consider the transfer of time-sensitive information in next-generation (NextG) communication systems in the presence of a deep learning based eavesdropper capable of jamming detected transmissions, subject to an average power budget. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Maice Costa , Yalin E. Sagduyu

A sensor samples and transmits status updates to a destination through a wireless channel that wears out over time and with every use. At each time slot, the sensor can decide to sample and transmit a fresh status update, restore the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 George J. Stamatakis , Osvaldo Simeone , Nikolaos Pappas

In this paper, we examine a system where status updates are generated by a source and are forwarded in a First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) manner to the monitor. We consider the case where the server has other tasks to fulfill, a simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Ali Maatouk , Mohamad Assaad , Anthony Ephremides

This paper proposes a secure state estimation scheme with non-periodic asynchronous measurements for linear continuous-time systems under false data attacks on the measurement transmit channel. After sampling the output of the system, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-31 Zishuo Li , Anh Tung Nguyen , André Teixeira , Yilin Mo , Karl H. Johansson

We consider a communication system where a base station serves $N$ users, one user at a time, over a wireless channel. We consider the timeliness of the communication of each user via the age of information metric. A constrained adversary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Subhankar Banerjee , Sennur Ulukus

This letter investigates the problem of anti-jamming communications in dynamic and unknown environment through on-line learning. Different from existing studies which need to know (estimate) the jamming patterns and parameters, we use the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Xin Liu , Yuhua Xu , Luliang Jia , Qihui Wu , Alagan Anpalagan

In recent years, many efforts have demonstrated that modern machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where small, but carefully crafted, perturbations on the input can make them fail. While these attack methods are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Yuan Gong , Boyang Li , Christian Poellabauer , Yiyu Shi

In this paper, we develop a new denial-of-service (DoS) estimator, enabling defenders to identify duration and frequency parameters of any DoS attacker, except for three edge cases, exclusively using real-time data. The key advantage of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Yifan Sun , Jianquan Lu , Daniel W. C. Ho , Lulu Li