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Wireless surveillance, in which untrusted communications links are proactively monitored by legitimate agencies, has started to garner a lot of interest for enhancing the national security. In this paper, we propose a new cell-free massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Lajos Hanzo

LTE/LTE-Advanced networks are known to be vulnerable to denial-of-service and loss-of-service attacks from smart jammers. In this article, the interaction between a smart jammer and LTE network is modeled as an infinite-horizon, zero-sum,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Farhan M. Aziz , Lichun Li , Jeff S. Shamma , Gordon L. Stuber

Jamming attacks pose a critical threat to wireless networks, yet existing detection methods remain largely unimodal, centralized and resource-intensive, limiting their performance, scalability, and deployment feasibility, respectively. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ioannis Panitsas , Iason Ofeidis , Leandros Tassiulas

The aim of this work is to propose new approaches for maximizing the energy efficiency of downlink 5G mobile communication systems, in the presence of a reactive jammer. The concepts of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Joumana Farah , Jacques Akiki , Eric Pierre Simon

This paper considers the problem of securing a linear network coding system against an adversary that is both an eavesdropper and a jammer. The network is assumed to transport n packets from source to each receiver, and the adversary is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Danilo Silva , Frank R. Kschischang

Optical networks are prone to power jamming attacks intending service disruption. This paper presents a Machine Learning (ML) framework for detection and prevention of jamming attacks in optical networks. We evaluate various ML classifiers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Mounir Bensalem , Sandeep Kumar Singh , Admela Jukan

Wireless communication is the fastest growing area of the communication industry. To keep swiftness with the indefinite increase in customers' demands and expectations, and the market competition among companies for the services…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-27 Shrikrishan Yadav , Shuchi Jani , B. L. Pal

Due to its scale and largely interconnected nature, the Internet of Things (IoT) will be vulnerable to a number of security threats that range from physical layer attacks to network layer attacks. In this paper, a novel anti-jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Nima Namvar , Walid Saad , Niloofar Bahadori , Brian Kelley

This paper investigates the spectrum sharing between a multiple-input single-output (MISO) secure communication system and a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system in the presence of one suspicious eavesdropper. We jointly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Peng Liu , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Zhong Zheng , Xiangnan Li , Jie Xu

Jamming techniques require just moderate resources to be deployed, while their effectiveness in disrupting communications is unprecedented. In this paper we introduce several contributions to jamming mitigation. In particular, we introduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Roberto Di Pietro , Gabriele Oligeri

Media-based modulation (MBM) is a novel modulation technique that can improve the spectral efficiency of the existing wireless systems. In MBM, multiple radio frequency (RF) mirrors are placed near the transmit antenna(s) and are switched…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Manish Mandloi , Devendra Singh Gurjar

In this paper, we propose a novel joint task offloading and user scheduling (JTO-US) framework for 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) systems under security threats from jamming attacks. The goal is to minimize the delay and the ratio of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mohammadreza Amini , Burak Kantarci , Claude D'Amours , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Motivated by MIMO broad-band fading channel model, in this section a comparative study is presented regarding various uncoded adaptive and non-adaptive MIMO detection algorithms with respect to BER/PER performance, and hardware complexity.…

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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

Wireless communication systems are increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated jamming attacks with the rapid evolution of jamming technologies and advanced signal processing techniques. While traditional anti-jamming techniques offer limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yang Cao , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Lifeng Wang

In this paper, we study jamming attacks against wireless networks. Specifically, we consider a network of base stations (BS) or access points (AP) and investigate the impact of a fixed number of jammers that are randomly deployed according…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 SaiDhiraj Amuru , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

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

Exploring the interference-emitting friendly jammers to protect the sensitive communications in the presence of eavesdroppers has increasingly being investigated in literature. In parallel, scavenging energy from abient radio signals for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Pan Zhou

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have great practical importance for surveillance systems to perform monitoring by acquiring and sending information on any intrusion in a secured area. Requirement of very little human intervention is one of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Nabila Rahman , Matthew Wright , Donggang Liu

Wireless communications are particularly vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks due to their broadcast nature. To effectively deal with eavesdroppers, existing security techniques usually require accurate channel state information (CSI), e.g.,…