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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

Spatial filtering based on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) processing is a powerful method for jammer mitigation. In principle, a MIMO receiver can null the interference of a single-antenna jammer at the cost of only one degree of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Gian Marti , Alexander Stutz-Tirri , Christoph Studer

The effectiveness and simple implementation of physical layer jammers make them an essential threat for wireless networks. In a multihop wireless network, where jammers can interfere with the transmission of user messages at intermediate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Majid Ghaderi , Hossein Pishro-Nik , Dennis Goeckel

In millimeter-wave (MMW) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications, users and their corresponding base station (BS) have to align their beam during both initial access and data transmissions to compensate for the high propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Donatella Darsena , Francesco Verde

Jamming attacks pose a critical threat to wireless networks, particularly in cell-free massive MIMO systems, where distributed access points and user equipment (UE) create complex, time-varying topologies. This paper proposes a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Hossary , Laura Crosara , Stefano Tomasin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be integrated into wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for smart city applications in several ways. Among them, a UAV can be employed as a relay in a "store-carry and forward" fashion by uploading data from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Donatella Darsena , Giacinto Gelli , Ivan Iudice , Francesco Verde

Satellites are becoming exceedingly critical for communication, making them prime targets for cyber-physical attacks. We consider a rogue satellite in low Earth orbit that jams the uplink communication between another satellite and a ground…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Filippos Fotiadis , Quentin Rommel , Brian M. Sadler , Ufuk Topcu

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

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) technology promises unprecedentedly high data rates for next-generation wireless systems. To be practically viable, mmWave massive MU-MIMO basestations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Oscar Castañeda , Gian Marti , Christoph Studer

The problem of jamming on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Gaussian channels is investigated in this paper. In the case of a single target legitimate signal, we show that the existing result based on the simplification of the system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Jie Gao , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Hai Jiang

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

In this letter, we investigate the anti-jamming defense problem in multi-user scenarios, where the coordination among users is taken into consideration. The Markov game framework is employed to model and analyze the anti-jamming defense…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Fuqiang Yao , Luliang Jia

Conventional anti-jamming method mostly rely on frequency hopping to hide or escape from jammer. These approaches are not efficient in terms of bandwidth usage and can also result in a high probability of jamming. Different from existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum , Aidin Ferdowsi , Walid Saad

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

Security aspects in underwater wireless networks have not been widely investigated so far, despite the critical importance of the scenarios in which these networks can be employed. For example, an attack to a military underwater network for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Alberto Signori , Federico Chiariotti , Filippo Campagnaro , Michele Zorzi

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

This paper addresses the challenge of anti-jamming in moving reactive jamming scenarios. The moving reactive jammer initiates high-power tracking jamming upon detecting any transmission activity, and when unable to detect a signal, resorts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yangyang Li , Yuhua Xu , Wen Li , Guoxin Li , Zhibing Feng , Songyi Liu , Jiatao Du , Xinran Li

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

We propose a novel soft-output joint channel estimation and data detection (JED) algorithm for multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems. Our algorithm approximately solves a maximum a-posteriori…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Haochuan Song , Xiaohu You , Chuan Zhang , Christoph Studer

This paper introduces a novel unsupervised jamming detection framework designed specifically for monostatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) radar systems. The framework leverages echo…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Luca Arcangeloni , Enrico Testi , Andrea Giorgetti