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Jamming attacks are proliferating and pose a significant threat to the security of 5G and beyond networks. These attacks target 5G radio frequency (RF) domain and can disrupt the communication in wireless networks. While conventional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Samhita Kuili , Mohammadreza Amini , Burak Kantarci

The increasing of digital radio frequency memory based electronic countermeasures poses a significant threat to the survivability and effectiveness of radar systems. These jammers can generate a multitude of deceptive false targets,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Yizhen Jia , Siyao Xiao , Wenkai Jia , Hui Chen , Wen-Qin Wang

Jamming attacks pose a critical threat to wireless networks, particularly in cell-free massive MIMO systems, where distributed access points and user equipment (UE) create complex, time-varying topologies. This paper proposes a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Hossary , Laura Crosara , Stefano Tomasin

Traditional anti-jamming techniques like spread spectrum, adaptive power/rate control, and cognitive radio, have demonstrated effectiveness in mitigating jamming attacks. However, their robustness against the growing complexity of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-14 Abubakar Sani Ali , Shimaa Naser , Sami Muhaidat

We consider the problem of hiding wireless communications from an eavesdropper that employs a deep learning (DL) classifier to detect whether any transmission of interest is present or not. There exists one transmitter that transmits to its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 Brian Kim , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Kemal Davaslioglu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus

The inherent vulnerability of wireless communication necessitates strategies to enhance its security, particularly in the face of jamming attacks. This paper uses the collaborations of multiple sensing nodes (SNs) in the wireless network to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Amir Mehrabian , Georges Kaddoum

MIMO processing enables jammer mitigation through spatial filtering, provided that the receiver knows the spatial signature of the jammer interference. Estimating this signature is easy for barrage jammers that transmit continuously and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Gian Marti , Christoph Studer

This paper studies the problem of mitigating reactive jamming, where a jammer adopts a dynamic policy of selecting channels and sensing thresholds to detect and jam ongoing transmissions. The transmitter-receiver pair learns to avoid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Kemal Davaslioglu , Sastry Kompella

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

Multi-antenna processing enables jammer mitigation through spatial filtering, provided that the receiver knows the spatial signature of the jammer interference. Estimating this signature is easy for barrage jammers that transmit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Gian Marti , Christoph Studer

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

We consider that a transmitter covertly communicates with multiple receivers under the help of a friendly jammer. The messages intended for different receivers are transmitted in mutually orthogonal frequency bands. An adversary observes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Ke-Wen Huang , Hao Deng , Hui-Ming Wang

All applications in fifth-generation (5G) networks rely on stable radio-frequency (RF) environments to support mission-critical services in mobility, automation, and connected intelligence. Their exposure to intentional interference or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Vojtech Halenka , Mohammadreza Amini , Per-Arne Andersen , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , Burak Kantarci

Network slicing is a pivotal paradigm in wireless networks enabling customized services to users and applications. Yet, intelligent jamming attacks threaten the performance of network slicing. In this paper, we focus on the security aspect…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Shavbo Salehi , Hao Zhou , Medhat Elsayed , Majid Bavand , Raimundas Gaigalas , Yigit Ozcan , Melike Erol-Kantarci

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

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 study jamming of an OFDM-modulated signal which employs forward error correction coding. We extend this to leverage reinforcement learning with a contextual bandit to jam a 5G-based system implementing some aspects of the 5G protocol.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Zachary Schutz , Daniel J. Jakubisin , Charles E. Thornton , R. Michael Buehrer

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

Malicious jamming launched by smart jammers can attack legitimate transmissions, which has been regarded as one of the critical security challenges in wireless communications. With this focus, this paper considers the use of an intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Qingqing Wu , H. Vincent Poor , Massimo Tornatore

Jamming attacks pose a critical threat to wireless networks, yet existing detection methods remain largely unimodal, centralized and resource-intensive, limiting their performance, scalability, and deployment feasibility, respectively. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ioannis Panitsas , Iason Ofeidis , Leandros Tassiulas