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Drones are expected to be used for many tasks in the future and require secure communication protocols. In this work, we propose a novel physical layer authentication (PLA)-based challenge-response (CR) protocol in which a drone Bob…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Francesco Ardizzon , Damiano Salvaterra , Mattia Piana , Stefano Tomasin

Drone Remote Identification (RID) plays a critical role in low-altitude airspace supervision, yet its broadcast nature and lack of cryptographic protection make it vulnerable to spoofing and replay attacks. In this paper, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Jie Li , Jing Li , Lu Lv , Zhanyu Ju , Fengkui Gong

Research in underwater communication is rapidly becoming attractive due to its various modern applications. An efficient mechanism to secure such communication is via physical layer security. In this paper, we propose a novel physical layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Waqas Aman , Saif Al-Kuwari , Marwa Qaraqe

The security of wireless challenge-response Physical Layer Authentication (PLA) based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) relies on a sufficiently random fading channel condition, which is commonly assumed in existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haiyun Liu , Shangqing Zhao , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

Drone security is currently a major topic of discussion among researchers and industrialists. Although there are multiple applications of drones, if the security challenges are not anticipated and required architectural changes are not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Vikas Hassija , Vinay Chamola , Adhar Agrawal , Adit Goyal , Nguyen Cong Luong , Dusit Niyato , F. Richard Yu , Mohsen Guizani

User authentication in future wireless communication networks is expected to become more complicated due to their large scale and heterogeneity. Furthermore, the computational complexity of classical cryptographic approaches based on public…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Atsu Kokuvi Angélo Passah , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Arsenia Chorti

Physical layer authentication (PLA) is the process of claiming identity of a node based on its physical layer characteristics such as channel fading or hardware imperfections. In this work, we propose a novel PLA method for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Ozan Alp Topal , Gunes Karabulut Kurt

This paper presents a physical layer authentication (PLA) technique using information reconciliation in multiuser communication systems. A cost-effective solution for low-end Internet of Things networks can be provided by PLA. In this work,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Atsu Kokuvi Angélo Passah , Arsenia Chorti , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

We study the detection and delay performance impacts of a feature-based physical layer authentication (PLA) protocol in mission-critical machine-type communication (MTC) networks. The PLA protocol uses generalized likelihood-ratio testing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Henrik Forssell , Ragnar Thobaben , Hussein Al-Zubaidy , James Gross

Physical Layer Authentication (PLA) exploits the spatial uniqueness of wireless channel characteristics in order to authenticate devices without recourse to higher-layer cryptographic protocols, which remain vulnerable to key compromise.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Sachinkumar B. Mallikarjun , Marvin Reski , Andreas Weinand , Hans D. Schotten

Drones have been widely used in various services, such as delivery and surveillance. Authentication forms the foundation of the security of these services. However, drones are expensive and may carry important payloads. To avoid being…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chuxiong Wu , Qiang Zeng

In this paper, we investigate the utilization of the angle of arrival (AoA) as a feature for robust physical layer authentication (PLA). While most of the existing approaches to PLA focus on common features of the physical layer of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Thuy M. Pham , Linda Senigagliesi , Marco Baldi , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard P. Fettweis , Arsenia Chorti

Tag-based Physical-Layer Authentication (PLA) has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its low complexity, high security, and low latency. Traditional tag-based PLA schemes typically estimate tags by decoding the message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Lei Yao , Boxiang He , Shilian Wang , Enyu Shi , Chau Yuen

This letter proposes a new physical layer authentication mechanism operating at the physical layer of a communication system where the receiver has partial control of the channel conditions (e.g., using an intelligent reflecting surface).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Laura Crosara , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Stefano Tomasin

To ensure secure and reliable communication in wireless systems, authenticating the identities of numerous nodes is imperative. Traditional cryptography-based authentication methods suffer from issues such as low compatibility, reliability,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Rui Meng , Bingxuan Xu , Xiaodong Xu , Mengying Sun , Bizhu Wang , Shujun Han , Suyu Lv , Ping Zhang

Achieving ultra-reliable, low-latency and secure communications is essential for realizing the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Non-coherent massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has recently been proposed as a promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-23 Zhifang Gu , He Chen , Pingping Xu , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

A runtime assurance system (RTA) for a given plant enables the exercise of an untrusted or experimental controller while assuring safety with a backup (or safety) controller. The relevant computational design problem is to create a logic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Kristina Miller , Christopher K. Zeitler , William Shen , Kerianne Hobbs , Sayan Mitra , John Schierman , Mahesh Viswanathan

Safe navigation of drones in the presence of adversarial physical attacks from multiple pursuers is a challenging task. This paper proposes a novel approach, asynchronous multi-stage deep reinforcement learning (AMS-DRL), to train…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jiaping Xiao , Mir Feroskhan

Drones are begin used for various purposes such as border security, surveillance, cargo delivery, visual shows and it is not possible to overcome such intensive tasks with a single drone. In order to expedite performing such tasks, drone…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yucel Aydin , Gunes K. Kurt , Enver Ozdemir , Halim Yanikomeroglu

We propose an adversarially robust physical layer authentication (AR-PLA) framework tailored for non-stationary multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless channels. The framework integrates sequential Bayesian decision-making, deep…

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