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This paper develops a new cooperative jamming protocol, termed accumulate-and-jam (AnJ), to improve physical layer security in wireless communications. Specifically, a full-duplex (FD) friendly jammer is deployed to secure the direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ying Bi , He Chen

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

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

The broadcast nature of the wireless medium allows unintended users to eavesdrop the confidential information transmission. In this regard, we investigate the problem of secure communication between a source and a destination via a wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Sanket S. Kalamkar , Adrish Banerjee

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

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

We design jamming resistant receivers to enhance the robustness of a massive MIMO uplink channel against jamming. In the pilot phase, we estimate not only the desired channel, but also the jamming channel by exploiting purposely unused…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Tan Tai Do , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

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

This paper proposes to use Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) as a green jammer to attack a legitimate communication without using any internal energy to generate jamming signals. In particular, the IRS is used to intelligently reflect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Bin Lyu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Shimin Gong , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim

A joint transmitter-receiver energy harvesting model is considered, where both the transmitter and receiver are powered by (renewable) energy harvesting source. Given a fixed number of bits, the problem is to find the optimal transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Siddhartha Satpathi , Rushil Nagda , Rahul Vaze

In this article, we introduce a novel deception strategy which is inspired by the "Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats", one of the most famous military tactics in the history, in order to defeat reactive jamming attacks for low-power IoT…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-25 Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Shimin Gong , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

We address the resilience of future 6G MIMO communications by considering an uplink scenario where multiple legitimate transmitters try to communicate with a base station in the presence of an adversarial jammer. The jammer possesses full…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-15 Vlad C. Andrei , Xinyang Li , Ullrich J. Mönich , Holger Boche

This work considers a system with two energy harvesting (EH) nodes transmitting to a common destination over a random access channel. The amount of harvested energy is assumed to be random and independent over time, but correlated among the…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Mehdi Salehi Heydar Abad , Deniz Gunduz , Ozgur Ercetin

Sensor nodes with energy harvesting sources are gaining popularity due to their ability to improve the network life time and are becoming a preferred choice supporting `green communication'. We study such a sensor node with an energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-22 R Rajesh , Vinod Sharma , Pramod Viswanath

Dense, unmanaged 802.11 deployments tempt saboteurs into launching jamming attacks by injecting malicious interference. Nowadays, jammers can be portable devices that transmit intermittently at low power in order to conserve energy. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-06-18 Konstantinos Pelechrinis , Ioannis Broustis , Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy , Christos Gkantsidis

Network life time maximization is becoming an important design goal in wireless sensor networks. Energy harvesting has recently become a preferred choice for achieving this goal as it provides near perpetual operation. We study such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 R. Rajesh , Vinod Sharma , Pramod Viswanath

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

This paper investigates reliable and covert transmission strategies in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wiretap channel with a transmitter, receiver and an adversarial wiretapper, each equipped with multiple antennas. In a departure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Amitav Mukherjee , A. Lee Swindlehurst

A general theory of online power control for discrete-time battery limited energy harvesting communications is developed, which leads to, among other things, an explicit characterization of a maximin optimal policy. This policy only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Shengtian Yang , Jun Chen

Energy harvesting sensor nodes are gaining popularity due to their ability to improve the network life time and are becoming a preferred choice supporting 'green communication'. In this paper we focus on communicating reliably over an AWGN…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-14 Rajesh Ramachandran , Vinod Sharma , Pramod Viswanath