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Wireless covert channels promise to exfiltrate information with high bandwidth by circumventing traditional access control mechanisms. Ideally, they are only accessible by the intended recipient and---for regular system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Jiska Classen , Matthias Schulz , Matthias Hollick

Consider the problem of Private Information Retrieval (PIR), where a user wishes to retrieve a single message from $N$ non-communicating and non-colluding databases (servers). All servers store the same set of $M$ messages and they respond…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Ori Shmuel , Asaf Cohen

Radio Frequency (RF) fingerprinting is to identify a wireless device from its uniqueness of the analog circuitry or hardware imperfections. However, unlike the MAC address which can be modified, such hardware feature is inevitable for the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zhaoyi Lu , Wenchao Xu , Ming Tu , Xin Xie , Cunqing Hua , Nan Cheng

Intellicise (Intelligent and Concise) wireless network is the main direction of the evolution of future mobile communication systems, a perspective now widely acknowledged across academia and industry. As a key technology within it, Agentic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Rui Meng , Zhidi Zhang , Song Gao , Yaheng Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Yijing Lin , Yiming Liu , Chenyuan Feng , Lexi Xu , Yi Ma , Ping Zhang , Rahim Tafazolli

In this paper, we study the problem of secret communication over a Compound Multiple Access Channel (MAC). In this channel, we assume that one of the transmitted messages is confidential that is only decoded by its corresponding receiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hassan Zivari-Fard , Bahareh Akhbari , Mahmoud Ahmadian-Attari , Mohammad Reza Aref

Interference alignment (IA) has attracted enormous research interest as it achieves optimal capacity scaling with respect to signal to noise ratio on interference networks. IA has also recently emerged as an effective tool in engineering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Liangzhong Ruan , Vincent K. N. Lau , Moe Z. Win

Personalized AI agents rely on access to a user's digital footprint, which often includes sensitive data from private emails, chats and purchase histories. Yet this access creates a fundamental societal and privacy risk: systems lacking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Srija Mukhopadhyay , Sathwik Reddy , Shruthi Muthukumar , Jisun An , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

As the number of heterogenous IP-connected devices and traffic volume increase, so does the potential for security breaches. The undetected exploitation of these breaches can bring severe cybersecurity and privacy risks. Anomaly-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Willian T. Lunardi , Martin Andreoni Lopez , Jean-Pierre Giacalone

Next-generation systems aim to increase both the speed and responsiveness of wireless communications, while supporting compelling applications such as edge and cloud computing, remote-Health, vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, etc.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Zhongxiang Wei , Christos Masouros , H. Vincent Poor , Athina P. Petropulu , Lajos Hanzo

The Internet of Things (IoT) will soon be omnipresent and billions of sensors and actuators will support our industries and well-being. IoT devices are embedded systems that are connected using wireless technology for most of the cases. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Bodong Shang , Vuk Marojevic , Lingjia Liu

Modern operating systems increasingly randomize Media Access Control (MAC) addresses to protect user privacy, fundamentally disrupting Network Access Control (NAC) systems that have relied on MAC addresses as persistent device identifiers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Premanand Seralathan

This letter proposes a novel random medium access control (MAC) based on a transmission opportunity prediction, which can be measured in a form of a conditional success probability given transmitter-side interference. A transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Jinho Choi , Seung-Woo Ko , Koji Yamamoto , Seong-Lyun Kim

Over the past years, literature has shown that attacks exploiting the microarchitecture of modern processors pose a serious threat to the privacy of mobile phone users. This is because applications leave distinct footprints in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Berk Gulmezoglu , Andreas Zankl , M. Caner Tol , Saad Islam , Thomas Eisenbarth , Berk Sunar

Recent studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) can infer private user attributes (e.g., age, location, gender) from user-generated text shared online, enabling rapid and large-scale privacy breaches. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dong Yan , Jian Liang , Ran He , Tieniu Tan

Due to the openness of the wireless medium, smartphone users are susceptible to user privacy attacks, where user privacy information is inferred from encrypted Wi-Fi wireless traffic. Existing attacks are limited to recognizing mobile apps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yong Huang , Zhibo Dong , Xiaoguang Yang , Dalong Zhang , Qingxian Wang , Zhihua Wang

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems raise unprecedented challenges regarding security and privacy since related applications involve the gathering of sensitive, identifiable information about people and the environment,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Henrik Åkesson , Marco Gomes , Diana Pamela Moya Osorio

Researchers increasingly use data on social and economic networks to study a range of social science questions, but releasing statistics derived from networks can raise significant privacy concerns. We show how to release network…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-17 Tom A. Rutter , Yuxin Liu , M. Amin Rahimian

In this paper, we show that attackers can exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers via Wi-Fi signals. Malware in a compromised air-gapped computer can generate signals in the Wi-Fi frequency bands. The signals are generated through the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Mordechai Guri

The accelerating penetration of physical environments by objects with information processing and wireless communication capabilities requires approaches to find potential communication partners and discover services. In the present work, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Niels Karowski , Konstantin Miller , Adam Wolisz

Our ability to control the flow of sensitive personal information to online systems is key to trust in personal privacy on the internet. We ask how to detect, assess and defend user privacy in the face of search engine personalisation? We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Pól Mac Aonghusa , Douglas J. Leith