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In this paper, we investigate proactive monitoring to mitigate malicious activities in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. Our focus is on a scenario where a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zonghan Wang , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

Cooperative jamming is an approach that has been recently proposed for improving physical layer based security for wireless networks in the presence of an eavesdropper. While the source transmits its message to its destination, a relay node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-30 Lun Dong , Zhu Han , Athina P. Petropulu , H. Vincent Poor

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

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

Malicious jamming presents a pervasive threat to the secure communications, where the challenge becomes increasingly severe due to the growing capability of the jammer allowing the adaptation to legitimate transmissions. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xiao Tang , Zhen Ma , Limeng Dong , Yichen Wang , Qinghe Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

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

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

Multi-agent consensus under jamming attacks is investigated. Specifically, inter-agent communications over a network are assumed to fail at certain times due to jamming of transmissions by a malicious attacker. A new stochastic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Ahmet Cetinkaya , Kaito Kikuchi , Tomohisa Hayakawa , Hideaki Ishii

As the evolution of wireless communication progresses towards 6G networks, extreme bandwidth communication (EBC) emerges as a key enabler to meet the ambitious key performance indicator set for this next-generation technology. 6G aims for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Richa Priyadarshani , Ki-Hong Park , Yalcin Ata , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Security attacks at the physical layer, in the form of radio jamming for denial of service, are an increasing threat in the Industry 4.0 scenarios. In this paper, we consider the problem of jamming detection in 5G-and-beyond communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Leonardo Chiarello , Paolo Baracca , Karthik Upadhya , Saeed R. Khosravirad , Thorsten Wild

GNSS receivers are vulnerable to jamming and spoofing attacks, and numerous such incidents have been reported worldwide in the last decade. It is important to detect attacks fast and localize attackers, which can be hard if not impossible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 Glädje Karl Olsson , Erik Axell , Erik G. Larsson , Panos Papadimitratos

This paper considers a cooperative jamming (CJ)-aided secure wireless communication system. Conventionally, the jammer transmits Gaussian noise (GN) to enhance security; however, the GN scheme also degrades the legitimate receiver's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Hao Yang , Hao Xu , Kai Wan , Sijie Zhao , Robert Caiming Qiu

Jamming is a form of the Denial of Service (J-DoS) attack. It is a significant threat that causes malfunction in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle systems, especially when used in hostile environments. The attackers mainly operate in the wireless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Pavlo Mykytyn , Marcin Brzozowski , Zoya Dyka , Peter Langendoerfer

Physical layer security has been recently recognized as a promising new design paradigm to provide security in wireless networks. In addition to the existing conventional cryptographic methods, physical layer security exploits the dynamics…

Wireless communication can be simply subjected to malicious attacks due to its open nature and shared medium. Detecting jamming attacks is the first and necessary step to adopt the anti-jamming strategies. This paper presents novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Amir Mehrabian , Georges Kaddoum

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

Conventional wireless security assumes wireless communications are rightful and aims to protect them against malicious eavesdropping and jamming attacks. However, emerging infrastructure-free mobile communication networks are likely to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

State-of-the-art solutions detect jamming attacks ex-post, i.e., only when jamming has already disrupted the wireless communication link. In many scenarios, e.g., mobile networks or static deployments distributed over a large geographical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Martijn Hanegraaf , Savio Sciancalepore , Gabriele Oligeri

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems promise efficient spectrum utilization by jointly supporting radar sensing and wireless communication. This paper presents a deep learning-driven framework for enhancing physical-layer…

Malicious jamming launched by smart jammer, which attacks legitimate transmissions has been regarded as one of the critical security challenges in wireless communications. Thus, this paper exploits intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Qingqing Wu , Massimo Tornatore , Stefano Secci