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As location-based applications become ubiquitous in emerging wireless networks, Location Verification Systems (LVS) are of growing importance. In this paper we propose, for the first time, a rigorous information-theoretic framework for an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Shihao Yan , Robert Malaney , Ido Nevat , Gareth W. Peters

In this work, we address the objective of protecting the states of a distributed dynamical system from eavesdropping adversaries. We prove that state-of-the-art distributed algorithms, which rely on communicating the agents' states, are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Dipankar Maity , Van Sy Mai

Physical layer security has been recently recognized as a promising new design paradigm to provide security in wireless networks. In addition to the existing conventional cryptographic methods, physical layer security exploits the dynamics…

We present our system submission to the ASVspoof 2019 Challenge Physical Access (PA) task. The objective for this challenge was to develop a countermeasure that identifies speech audio as either bona fide or intercepted and replayed. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Jennifer Williams , Joanna Rownicka

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

With millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communication envisioned to be the key enabler of next generation high data rate wireless networks, security is of paramount importance. While conventional security measures in wireless networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Sarankumar Balakrishnan , Shreya Gupta , Arupjyoti Bhuyan , Pu Wang , Dimitrios Koutsonikolas , Zhi Sun

We propose an efficient scheme for generating fake network traffic to disguise the real event notification in the presence of a global eavesdropper, which is especially relevant for the quality of service in delay-intolerant applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-12-03 Silvija Kokalj-Filipovic , Fabrice Le Fessant , Predrag Spasojevic

In this paper, we study an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless secure communication system for physical layer security, where an IRS is deployed to adjust its surface reflecting elements to guarantee secure communication of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Liang Xiao , Qingqing Wu

In this paper, we investigate the design of a pilot spoofing attack (PSA) carried out by multiple single-antenna eavesdroppers (Eves) in a downlink time-division duplex (TDD) system, where a multiple antenna base station (BS) transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Ke-Wen Huang , Hui-Ming Wang , Yongpeng Wu , Robert Schober

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is proposed to enhance the physical layer security in the Rician fading channel where the angular direction of the eavesdropper is aligned with a legitimate user. In this scenario, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Kok Keong Chai , Kai-Kit Wong

Active security is mainly concerned with performing one or more security functions when a host in a communication network is subject to an attack. Such security functions include appropriate actions against attackers. To properly afford…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Tarek S. Sobh , Awad H. Khalil

Deep learning is an effective approach for performing radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting, which aims to identify the transmitter corresponding to received RF signals. However, beyond the intended receiver, malicious eavesdroppers can also…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-07 Andrew Yuan , Rajeev Sahay

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), equipped with numerous sensors such as camera, LiDAR, radar, and ultrasonic sensor, are revolutionizing the transportation industry. These sensors are expected to sense reliable information from a physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jianzhi Lou , Qiben Yan , Qing Hui , Huacheng Zeng

Wireless networks with directional antennas, like millimeter wave (mmWave) networks, have enhanced security. For a large-scale mmWave ad hoc network in which eavesdroppers are randomly located, however, eavesdroppers can still intercept the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Yongxu Zhu , Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Robert W. Heath

Extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays) have emerged as a promising technology to improve the spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution of future wireless systems. Different from existing works that mostly considered physical layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Tianyu Liu , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Yunpu Zhang , Shiqi Gong , Heng Liu , Guangchi Zhang

This paper presents a comprehensive physical layer security (PLS) framework for fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided short-packet communications under the variable block-correlation model (VBCM). We consider a downlink wiretap scenario in which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jianchao Zheng , Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Baiyang Liu , Runyu Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Kin-Fai Tong , Sumei Sun

Security threats such as jamming and route manipulation can have significant consequences on the performance of modern wireless networks. To increase the efficacy and stealthiness of such threats, a number of extremely challenging,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Liyang Zhang , Francesco Restuccia , Tommaso Melodia , Scott M. Pudlewski

Wireless communications are particularly vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks due to their broadcast nature. To effectively deal with eavesdroppers, existing security techniques usually require accurate channel state information (CSI), e.g.,…

This paper studies the intercept behavior of an industrial wireless sensor network (WSN) consisting of a sink node and multiple sensors in the presence of an eavesdropping attacker, where the sensors transmit their sensed information to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Yulong Zou , Gongpu Wang

This paper studies the security aspect of a recently introduced network ("cell-free massive MIMO") under a pilot spoofing attack. Firstly, a simple method to recognize the presence of this type of an active eavesdropping attack to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Tiep M. Hoang , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trung Q. Duong , Hoang D. Tuan , Alan Marshall