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Millimetre-wave (mmWave) technology is a promising candidate for meeting the intensifying demand for ultra fast wireless connectivity, especially in high-end enterprise networks. Very narrow beam forming is mandatory to mitigate the severe…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Nicolo Facchi , Francesco Gringoli , Paul Patras

The Y1 interface in O-RAN enables the sharing of RAN Analytics Information (RAI) between the near-RT RIC and authorized Y1 consumers, which may be internal applications within the operator's trusted domain or external systems accessing data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Abiodun Ganiyu , Dara Ron , Syed Rafiul Hussain , Vijay K Shah

Multi-agent systems often communicate over low-power shared wireless networks in unlicensed spectrum, prone to denial-of-service attacks. We consider the following scenario: multiple pairs of agents communicating strategically over shared…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Xu Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos

Wireless short-packet communications pose challenges to the security and reliability of the transmission. Besides, the proactive warder compounds these challenges, who detects and interferes with the potential transmission. An extra jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Manlin Wang , Yao Yao , Bin Xia , Zhiyong Chen , Jiangzhou Wang

Wireless information surveillance, by which suspicious wireless communications are closely monitored by legitimate agencies, is an integral part of national security. To enhance the information surveillance capability, we propose in this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

We consider the problem of stealthy communication over a multipath network in the presence of an active adversary. The multipath network consists of multiple parallel noiseless links, and the adversary is able to eavesdrop and jam a subset…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Jianhan Song , Qiaosheng Zhang , Swanand Kadhe , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

The open radio access network (O-RAN) enables modular, intelligent, and programmable 5G network architectures through the adoption of software-defined networking, network function virtualization, and implementation of standardized open…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Md Habibur Rahman , Md Sharif Hossen , Nathan H. Stephenson , Vijay K. Shah , Aloizio Da Silva

In this paper, we propose opportunistic jammer selection in a wireless security system for increasing the secure degrees of freedom (DoF) between a transmitter and a legitimate receiver (say, Alice and Bob). There is a jammer group…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jung Hoon Lee , Wan Choi

In the framework of 5G-and-beyond Industry 4.0, jamming attacks for denial of service are a rising threat which can severely compromise the system performance. Therefore, in this paper we deal with the problem of jamming detection and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Leonardo Chiarello , Paolo Baracca , Karthik Upadhya , Saeed R. Khosravirad , Silvio Mandelli , Thorsten Wild

To improve national security, government agencies have long been committed to enforcing powerful surveillance measures on suspicious individuals or communications. In this paper, we consider a wireless legitimate surveillance system, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Caijun Zhong , Xin Jiang , Fengzhong Qu , Zhaoyang Zhang

Channel hopping provides a defense mechanism against jamming attacks in large scale \ac{iot} networks.} However, a sufficiently powerful attacker may be able to learn the channel hopping pattern and efficiently predict the channel to jam.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Emilie Bout , Alessandro Brighente , Mauro Conti , Valeria Loscri

Conventional anti-jamming methods mainly focus on preventing single jammer attacks with an invariant jamming policy or jamming attacks from multiple jammers with similar jamming policies. These anti-jamming methods are ineffective against a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum , Walid Saad

In this work, we address reliable communication of low-latency packets in the presence of a full-duplex adversary that is capable of executing a jamming attack while also being able to measure the power levels on various frequency bands.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Vivek Chaudhary , J. Harshan

Given the overcrowding in the 300 MHz-3 GHz spectrum, millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum is a promising candidate for the future generations of wireless networks. With the unique propagation characteristics at mmWave frequencies, one of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-11 Solmaz Niknam , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

Recent developments in Integrated Sensing and Communication have led to new adversarial models in wireless security through Integrated Sensing and Jamming (ISAJ) adversaries. ISAJ adversaries, owing to their sensing capabilities, are known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Soumita Hazra , J. Harshan

This letter proposes a novel UAV-enabled mobile jamming scheme to improve the secrecy rate of ground wiretap channel. Specifically, a UAV is employed to transmit jamming signals to combat against eavesdropping. Such a mobile jamming scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 An Li , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications have recently attracted large research interest, since the huge available bandwidth can potentially lead to rates of multiple Gbps (gigabit per second) per user. Though mmWave can be readily used in…

The millimeter wave (mmWave) band, which is a prime candidate for 5G cellular networks, seems attractive for wireless energy harvesting. This is because it will feature large antenna arrays as well as extremely dense base station (BS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Talha Ahmed Khan , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Robert W. Heath

We design a jamming-resistant receiver scheme to enhance the robustness of a massive MIMO uplink system against jamming. We assume that a jammer attacks the system both in the pilot and data transmission phases. The key feature of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Tan Tai Do , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

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