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Efficient utilization of licensed spectrum in the cognitive radio network is challenging due to lack of coordination among the Secondary Users (SUs). Distributed algorithms proposed in the literature aim to maximize the network throughput…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-19 Suneet Sawant , Rohit Kumar , Manjesh K. Hanawal , Sumit J. Darak

To enhance the national security, there is a growing need for government agencies to legitimately monitor suspicious communication links for preventing intended crimes and terror attacks. In this paper, we propose a new wireless information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we present a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) framework for network slicing in a dynamic environment with multiple base stations and multiple users. In particular, we propose a novel deep RL framework with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Feng Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

Instead of against eavesdropping, this letter proposes a new paradigm in wireless security by studying how a legitimate monitor (e.g., government agencies) efficiently eavesdrops a suspicious wireless communication link. The suspicious…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates the anti-jamming channel access problem in complex and unknown jamming environments, where the jammer could dynamically adjust its strategies to target different channels. Traditional channel hopping anti-jamming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jianshu Zhang , Xiaofu Wu , Junquan Hu

State-of-the-art solutions detect jamming attacks ex-post, i.e., only when jamming has already disrupted the wireless communication link. In many scenarios, e.g., mobile networks or static deployments distributed over a large geographical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Martijn Hanegraaf , Savio Sciancalepore , Gabriele Oligeri

Deep Reinforcement Learning based solution for jamming communications using Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum technology in a 16 channel radio environment is presented. Deep Q Network based transmitter continuously selects the next…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Andrii Grekhov , Volodymyr Kharchenko , Vasyl Kondratiuk

In this paper, we investigate the problem of jamming detection and channel estimation during multi-user uplink beam training under random pilot jamming attacks in beamspace massive multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) systems. For jamming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Pengguang Du , Cheng Zhang , Yindi Jing , Chao Fang , Zhilei Zhang , Yongming Huang

It has been shown (Amuru et al. 2015) that online learning algorithms can be effectively used to select optimal physical layer parameters for jamming against digital modulation schemes without a priori knowledge of the victim's transmission…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Charles E. Thornton , R. Michael Buehrer

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

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for channel sensing, collaboration, and transmission for networks of Tactical Communication Systems that are facing intrusions from hostile Jammers. Members of the network begin by scanning the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Bryan Gingras , Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum

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

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 this work, we consider a covert communication scenario, where a transmitter Alice communicates to a receiver Bob with the aid of a probabilistic and uninformed jammer against an adversary warden's detection. The transmission status and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-30 Xun Chen , Fujun Gao , Min Qiu , Jia Zhang , Feng Shu , Shihao Yan

Cellular systems are vulnerable to jamming attacks, especially smart jammers that choose their jamming policies such as the jamming channel frequencies and power based on the ongoing communication policies and network states. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-24 Xiaozhen Lu , Liang Xiao , Canhuang Dai , Huaiyu Dai

This article introduces a novel lightweight framework using ambient backscattering communications to counter eavesdroppers. In particular, our framework divides an original message into two parts: (i) the active-transmit message transmitted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Nam H. Chu , Nguyen Van Huynh , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Shimin Gong , Tao Shu , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Khoa T. Phan

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

We consider a sensor-receiver pair communicating over a wireless channel in the presence of a jammer who may launch a denial-of-service attack. We formulate a zero-sum game between a coordinator that jointly designs the transmission and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Xu Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos

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

The timing channel is a logical communication channel in which information is encoded in the timing between events. Recently, the use of the timing channel has been proposed as a countermeasure to reactive jamming attacks performed by an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Salvatore D'Oro , Laura Galluccio , Giacomo Morabito , Sergio Palazzo , Lin Chen , Fabio Martignon