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With conventional anti-jamming solutions like frequency hopping or spread spectrum, legitimate transceivers often tend to "escape" or "hide" themselves from jammers. These reactive anti-jamming approaches are constrained by the lack of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Nguyen Van Huynh , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Eryk Dutkiewicz

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

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

Smart jammer nodes can disrupt communication between a transmitter and a receiver in a wireless network, and they leave traces that are undetectable to classical jammer identification techniques, hidden in the time-frequency plane. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-29 Ozan Alp Topal , Selen Gecgel , Ender Mete Eksioglu , Gunes Karabulut Kurt

Suppressing the deliberate interference for wireless networks is critical to guarantee a reliable communication link. However, nullifying the jamming signals can be problematic when the correlations between transmitted jamming signals are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Linh Manh Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , J. Andrew Zhang , Dinh Thai Hoang

This paper reveals the potential of movable antennas in enhancing anti-jamming communication. We consider a legitimate communication link in the presence of multiple jammers and propose deploying a movable antenna array at the receiver to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Xiao Tang , Yudan Jiang , Jinxin Liu , Qinghe Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) simplify the design of millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) basestations, but increase vulnerability to jamming attacks. As a remedy, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Gian Marti , Oscar Castañeda , Sven Jacobsson , Giuseppe Durisi , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

Jamming attacks target a wireless network creating an unwanted denial of service. 5G is vulnerable to these attacks despite its resilience prompted by the use of millimeter wave bands. Over the last decade, several types of jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Youness Arjoune , Fatima Salahdine , Md. Shoriful Islam , Elias Ghribi , Naima Kaabouch

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

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

In future 6G networks, anti-jamming will become a critical challenge, particularly with the development of intelligent jammers that can initiate malicious interference, posing a significant security threat to communication transmission.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Yue Xiu , Yang Zhao , Songjie Yang , Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Yueyang Li , Ning Wei

Movable antenna (MA) is an emerging technology which can reconfigure wireless channels via adaptive antenna position adjustments at transceivers, thereby bringing additional spatial degrees of freedom for improving system performance. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Lipeng Zhu , Kui Xu , Guoxin Li , Jiangbo Si , Jian Ouyang , Tong-Xing Zheng

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) promises unprecedented data rates for next-generation wireless systems. To be practically viable, mmWave massive MU-MIMO basestations (BSs) must rely on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Gian Marti , Oscar Castañeda , Christoph Studer

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

We consider downlink channel training of a frequency division duplex (FDD) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system when a multi-antenna jammer is present in the network. The jammer intends to degrade mean square error (MSE) of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Mohammad Amin Sheikhi , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

By using smart radio devices, a jammer can dynamically change its jamming policy based on opposing security mechanisms; it can even induce the mobile device to enter a specific communication mode and then launch the jamming policy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Liang Xiao , Guoan Han , Donghua Jiang , Hongzi Zhu , Yanyong Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

Engineers have numerous low-power wireless sensor devices in the current network setup for the Internet of Things, such as ZigBee, LoRaWAN, ANT, or Bluetooth. These low-power wireless sensors are the best candidates to transfer and collect…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Mohammad Reza Heidarpour , Mohammad Hossein Manshaei

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

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

This paper considers the physical layer security of a pilot-based massive multiple-input multiple-output (MaMIMO) system in presence of a multi-antenna jammer. To improve security of the network, we propose a new jamming detection method…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Hossein Akhlaghpasand , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Emil Björnson , Tan Tai Do