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Communications-based Train Control (CBTC) systems are metro signalling platforms, which coordinate and protect the movements of trains within the tracks of a station, and between different stations. In CBTC platforms, a prominent role is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Franco Mazzanti , Alessio Ferrari

By sharing local sensor information via Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) wireless communication networks, Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is a technology that enables Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) to drive autonomously on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Dragan Nesic , Chau Yuen

Can an intelligent jammer learn and adapt to unknown environments in an electronic warfare-type scenario? In this paper, we answer this question in the positive, by developing a cognitive jammer that adaptively and optimally disrupts the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-14 SaiDhiraj Amuru , Cem Tekin , Mihaela van der Schaar , R. Michael Buehrer

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is a technology that allows groups of vehicles to form in automated, tightly-coupled platoons. CACC schemes exploit Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) wireless communications to exchange information between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Mischa Huisman , Carlos Murguia , Erjen Lefeber , Nathan van de Wouw

Cognitive (Radio) (CR) Communications (CC) are mainly deployed within the environments of primary (user) communications, where the channel states and accessibility are usually stochastically distributed (benign or IID). However, many…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Pan Zhou , Chenhui Hu , Tao Jiang , Dapeng Wu

In this paper, we study covert communications between {a pair of} legitimate transmitter-receiver against a watchful warden over slow fading channels. There coexist multiple friendly helper nodes who are willing to protect the covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Tong-Xing Zheng , Ziteng Yang , Chao Wang , Zan Li , Jinhong Yuan , Xiaohong Guan

Recently, physical layer security in the optical layer has gained significant traction. Security treats in optical networks generally impact the reliability of optical transmission. Linear Network Coding (LNC) can protect from both the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-10-26 Anna Engelmann , Admela Jukan

Many modern wireless networks integrate carrier sense mul-tiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) with exponential backoff as medium access control (MAC) technique. In order to decrease the MAC overhead and the collision probability, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Baher Mawlawi , Jean-Baptiste Doré

This paper considers an Internet of Thing (IoT) blockchain network consisting of a leader node and various follower nodes which together implement the RAFT consensus protocol to verify a blockchain transaction, as requested by a blockchain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Hasan Mujtaba Buttar , Waqas Aman , M. Mahboob Ur Rahman , Qammer H. Abbasi

Distributed multi-target tracking (DMTT) in limited field-of-view (FoV) sensor networks commonly suffers from label inconsistency, whereby different nodes disagree on the identity of the same target. Recent track-consensus DMTT (TC-DMTT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Helena Calatrava , Shuo Tang , Pau Closas

Wireless systems must be resilient to jamming attacks. Existing mitigation methods require knowledge of the jammer's transmit characteristics. However, this knowledge may be difficult to acquire, especially for smart jammers that attack…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Gian Marti , Christoph Studer

We consider the problem of jamming attack in a multiple access channel with training-based transmission. First, we derive upper and lower bounds on the maximum achievable ergodic sum-rate which explicitly shows the impact of jamming during…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hamed Pezeshki , Xiangyun Zhou , Behrouz Maham

Due to the increasing threat of attacks on satellite systems, novel countermeasures have been developed to provide additional security. Among these, there has been a particular interest in transmitter fingerprinting, which authenticates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Joshua Smailes , Sebastian Köhler , Simon Birnbach , Martin Strohmeier , Ivan Martinovic

Modern trains rely on balises (communication beacons) located on the track to provide location information as they traverse a rail network. Balises, such as those conforming to the Eurobalise standard, were not designed with security in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Hoon Wei Lim , William G. Temple , Bao Anh N. Tran , Binbin Chen , Zbigniew Kalbarczyk , Jianying Zhou

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems are vulnerable to jamming from self-interested users who utilize radio devices for their benefits during UAV transmissions. The vulnerability occurs due to the open nature of air-to-ground (A2G)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Joseanne Viana , Hamed Farkhari , Luis Miguel Campos , Pedro Sebastiao , Francisco Cercas , Luis Bernardo , Rui Dinis

Due to its scale and largely interconnected nature, the Internet of Things (IoT) will be vulnerable to a number of security threats that range from physical layer attacks to network layer attacks. In this paper, a novel anti-jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Nima Namvar , Walid Saad , Niloofar Bahadori , Brian Kelley

Conventional anti-jamming methods mainly focus on preventing single jammer attacks with an invariant jamming policy or jamming attacks from multiple jammers with similar jamming policies. These anti-jamming methods are ineffective against a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum , Walid Saad

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems find immense potential and applicability in the long term evolution (LTE), 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), and tactical communication systems. Jamming poses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Anu Jagannath , Jithin Jagannath , Andrew Drozd

The pervasive threat of jamming attacks, particularly from adaptive jammers capable of optimizing their strategies, poses a significant challenge to the security and reliability of wireless communications. This paper addresses this issue by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Xiao Tang , Zhen Ma , Bin Li , Cong Li , Qinghe Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Ambient backscatter is an intriguing wireless communication paradigm that allows small devices to compute and communicate by using only the power they harvest from radio-frequency (RF) signals in the air. Ambient backscattering devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Donatella Darsena , Giacinto Gelli , Francesco Verde