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Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication encounters a major issue of extremely high power consumption. To address this problem, the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) could be a promising technology. The mmWave…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Rui Zhu

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

As wireless network technology becomes more and more popular, mutual interference between various signals has become more and more severe and common. Therefore, there is often a situation in which the transmission of its own signal is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Guanqun Song , Ting Zhu

Jamming attacks on wireless networked control systems are investigated for the scenarios where the system dynamics face exogenous disturbance. In particular, the control input packets are assumed to be transmitted from a controller to a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ahmet Cetinkaya , Hideaki Ishii , Tomohisa Hayakawa

This study reveals the vulnerabilities of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) sensing, under the scope of joint communication and sensing (JCAS), focusing on target spoofing and deceptive jamming techniques. We use orthogonal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Hasan Can Yildirim , Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch , Francois Horlin

Wireless communication infrastructure is a cornerstone of modern digital society, yet it remains vulnerable to the persistent threat of wireless jamming. Attackers can easily create radio interference to overshadow legitimate signals,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Philipp Mackensen , Paul Staat , Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin , Christof Paar , Veelasha Moonsamy

With the advent of intelligent jammers, jamming attacks have become a more severe threat to the performance of wireless systems. An intelligent jammer is able to change its policy to minimize the probability of being traced by legitimate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum , Walid Saad

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

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

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

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

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

This paper considers wireless-powered cooperative jamming (CJ) to secure communication between a transmitter (Tx) and an information receiver (IR), in the presence of an energy receiver (ER) which is termed as a potential eavesdropper. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Mengyu Liu , Yuan Liu

The fifth generation of wireless cellular networks (5G) is expected to be the infrastructure for emergency services, natural disasters rescue, public safety, and military communications. 5G, as any previous wireless cellular network, is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Youness Arjoune , Saleh Faruque

This paper examines the security vulnerabilities and threats imposed by the inherent open nature of wireless communications and to devise efficient defense mechanisms for improving the wireless network security. We first summarize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yulong Zou , Jia Zhu , Xianbin Wang , Lajos Hanzo

Orbital angular momentum (OAM), providing the orthogonality among different OAM modes, has attracted much attention to significantly increase spectrum efficiencies (SEs) and enhance the anti-jamming results of wireless communications.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Kexin Zheng , Wenchi Cheng , Liping Liang

This paper develops a novel framework to defeat a super-reactive jammer, one of the most difficult jamming attacks to deal with in practice. Specifically, the jammer has an unlimited power budget and is equipped with the self-interference…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Nguyen Van Huynh , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Thang X. Vu , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Symeon Chatzinotas

An adversarial machine learning approach is introduced to launch jamming attacks on wireless communications and a defense strategy is presented. A cognitive transmitter uses a pre-trained classifier to predict the current channel status…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Yi Shi

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems find immense potential and applicability in the long term evolution (LTE), 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), and tactical communication systems. Jamming poses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Anu Jagannath , Jithin Jagannath , Andrew Drozd

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