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This letter proposes anti-jamming strategies based on pilot retransmission for a single user uplink massive MIMO under jamming attack. A jammer is assumed to attack the system both in the training and data transmission phases. We first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Tan Tai Do , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trung Q. Duong , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Reactive jammers pose a severe security threat to robotic-swarm networks by selectively disrupting inter-agent communications and undermining formation integrity and mission success. Conventional countermeasures such as fixed power control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Bahman Abolhassani , Tugba Erpek , Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sastry Kompella

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

Intentional interference constitutes a major threat for communication networks operating over a shared medium where availability is imperative. Jamming attacks are often simple and cheap to implement. In particular, today's jammers can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-04 Andrea Richa , Christian Scheideler , Stefan Schmid , Jin Zhang

Wireless networks are vulnerable to jamming attacks due to the shared communication medium, which can severely degrade performance and disrupt services. Despite extensive research, current jamming detection methods often rely on simulated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ioannis Panitsas , Yagmur Yigit , Leandros Tassiulas , Leandros Maglaras , Berk Canberk

We present a method for separating collided signals from multiple users in the presence of strong and wideband interference/jamming signal. More specifically, we consider a massive connectivity setup where few, out of a large number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-18 Milutin Pajovic , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Philip V. Orlik

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has been highly effective in learning from and adapting to RF environments and thus detecting and mitigating jamming effects to facilitate reliable wireless communications. However, traditional DRL methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Kemal Davaslioglu , Sastry Kompella , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

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

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

Wireless communication systems, such as wireless sensor networks and RFIDs, are increasingly adopted to transfer potential highly sensitive information. Since the wireless medium has a sharing nature, adversaries have a chance to eavesdrop…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Jialin Wan , Siyao Cheng , Shanshan Han , Jianzhong Li

Wireless links are increasingly used to deliver critical services, while intentional interference (jamming) remains a very serious threat to such services. In this paper, we are concerned with the design and evaluation of a universal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Hai N. Nguyen , Guevara Noubir

Optical networks are prone to power jamming attacks intending service disruption. This paper presents a Machine Learning (ML) framework for detection and prevention of jamming attacks in optical networks. We evaluate various ML classifiers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Mounir Bensalem , Sandeep Kumar Singh , Admela Jukan

Multi-antenna (MIMO) processing is a promising solution to the problem of jammer mitigation. Existing methods mitigate the jammer based on an estimate of its subspace (or receive statistics) acquired through a dedicated training phase. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Gian Marti , Christoph Studer

Native jamming mitigation is essential for addressing security and resilience in future 6G wireless networks. In this paper a resilient-by-design framework for effective anti-jamming in MIMO-OFDM wireless communications is introduced. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Vlad C. Andrei , Aladin Djuhera , Xinyang Li , Ullrich J. Mönich , Holger Boche , Walid Saad

With potential applications to short-packet communication, we address communication of low-latency messages in fast-fading channels under the presence of a reactive jammer. Unlike a traditional jammer, we assume a full-duplex (FD) jammer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Vivek Chaudhary , J. Harshan

We investigate the problem of reliable communication between two legitimate parties over deletion channels under an active eavesdropping (aka jamming) adversarial model. To this goal, we develop a theoretical framework based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-12 Shahab Asoodeh , Yi Huang , Ishanu Chattopadhyay

Wireless jamming identification, which detects and classifies electromagnetic jamming from non-cooperative devices, is crucial for emerging low-altitude wireless networks consisting of many drone terminals that are highly susceptible to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Pengyu Wang , Zhaocheng Wang , Tianqi Mao , Weijie Yuan , Haijun Zhang , George K. Karagiannidis

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

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

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