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Programmable, intelligent surfaces can manipulate electromagnetic waves impinging upon them, producing arbitrarily shaped reflection, refraction and diffraction, to the benefit of wireless users. Moreover, in their recent form of…

The emerging trend of ubiquitous and pervasive computing aims at embedding everyday devices such as wristwatches, smart phones, home video systems, autofocus cameras, intelligent vehicles, musical instruments, kitchen appliances etc. with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Abhishek Gupta , Om Jee Pandey , Mahendra Shukla , Anjali Dadhich , Samar Mathur , Anup Ingle

Thanks to the ubiquitous deployment of Wi-Fi hotspots, channel state information (CSI)-based Wi-Fi sensing can unleash game-changing applications in many fields, such as healthcare, security, and entertainment. However, despite one decade…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Marco Cominelli , Francesco Gringoli , Francesco Restuccia

Our work demonstrates a new set of silent reconnaissance attacks, which leverages the presence of commodity WiFi devices to track users inside private homes and offices, without compromising any WiFi network, data packets, or devices. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yanzi Zhu , Zhujun Xiao , Yuxin Chen , Zhijing Li , Max Liu , Ben Y. Zhao , Haitao Zheng

We present the DeepWiFi protocol, which hardens the baseline WiFi (IEEE 802.11ac) with deep learning and sustains high throughput by mitigating out-of-network interference. DeepWiFi is interoperable with baseline WiFi and builds upon the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Kemal Davaslioglu , Sohraab Soltani , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

The covert capacity is characterized for a non-coherent fast Rayleigh-fading wireless channel, in which a legitimate user wishes to communicate reliably with a legitimate receiver while escaping detection from a warden. It is shown that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Anne Savard , Matthieu R. Bloch

Power system communication networks enable operators to remotely monitor and control field equipment. The sophistication of these networks is also increasing as operators continue the trend towards digitization, which is beneficial in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Xavier Weiss , Lars Nordström , Patrik Hilber , Emre Süren

Due to the openness of the wireless medium, smartphone users are susceptible to user privacy attacks, where user privacy information is inferred from encrypted Wi-Fi wireless traffic. Existing attacks are limited to recognizing mobile apps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yong Huang , Zhibo Dong , Xiaoguang Yang , Dalong Zhang , Qingxian Wang , Zhihua Wang

It is possible to attack a computer remotely through the front panel LEDs. Following on previous results that showed information leakage at optical wavelengths, now it seems practicable to inject information into a system as well. It is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Joe Loughry

We present a Trojan (backdoor or trapdoor) attack that targets deep learning applications in wireless communications. A deep learning classifier is considered to classify wireless signals using raw (I/Q) samples as features and modulation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu

The advancement of next-generation Wi-Fi technology heavily relies on sensing capabilities, which play a pivotal role in enabling sophisticated applications. In response to the growing demand for large-scale deployments, contemporary Wi-Fi…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Yuxuan Liu , Chiya Zhang , Yifeng Yuan , Chunlong He , Weizheng Zhang , Gaojie Chen

Smart devices, such as light bulbs, TVs, fridges, etc., equipped with computing capabilities and wireless communication, are part of everyday life in many households. Previous work has already shown that a passive eavesdropper can derive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Arne Roszeitis , Bartosz Burgiel , Victor Jüttner , Erik Buchmann

The identification of the devices from which a message is received is part of security mechanisms to ensure authentication in wireless communications. Conventional authentication approaches are cryptography-based, which, however, are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Junqing Zhang , Francesco Ardizzon , Mattia Piana , Guanxiong Shen , Stefano Tomasin

Objects in an environment affect electromagnetic waves. While this effect varies across frequencies, there exists a correlation between them, and a model with enough capacity can capture this correlation between the measurements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Mohammad Hadi Kefayati , Vahid Pourahmadi , Hassan Aghaeinia

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has recently drawn significant interests for its dual use of radio signals to provide wireless data and energy access at the same time. However, a challenging secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Hong Xing , Liang Liu , Rui Zhang

Information technology and telecommunications have rapidly permeated various domains, resulting in a significant influx of data traversing the networks between computers. Consequently, research of cyberattacks in computer systems has become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Ruochen Wu

Covert communication is the undetected transmission of sensitive information over a communication channel. In wireless communication systems, channel impairments such as signal fading present challenges in the effective implementation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amir Reza Ramtin , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley

Electromagnetic (EM) covert channels pose significant threats to computer and communications security in air-gapped networks. Previous works exploit EM radiation from various components (e.g., video cables, memory buses, CPUs) to secretly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Xieyang Sun , Yuanqing Zheng , Wei Xi , Zuhao Chen , Zhizhen Chen , Han Hao , Zhiping Jiang , Sheng Zhong

Rogue Wi-Fi access point (AP) attacks can lead to data breaches and unauthorized access. Existing rogue AP detection methods and tools often rely on channel state information (CSI) or received signal strength indicator (RSSI), but they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Wenjie Liu , Panos Papadimitratos

Several security models of multiple-access channel (MAC) are investigated. First, we study the degraded MAC with confidential messages, where two users transmit their confidential messages (no common message) to a destination, and each user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Bin Dai , A. J. Han Vinck , Zhuojun Zhuang , Yuan Luo