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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

With the advent of intelligent jammers, jamming attacks have become a more severe threat to the performance of wireless systems. An intelligent jammer is able to change its policy to minimize the probability of being traced by legitimate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum , Walid Saad

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

While the millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is robust against the conventional wiretapping attack due to its short transmission range and directivity, this paper proposes a new opportunistic wiretapping and jamming (OWJ) attack model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yuanyu Zhang , Zhumeng Zheng , Ji He , Shuangrui Zhao , Qianyue Qu , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang

This work addresses a reactive jamming attack on the low-latency messages of a victim, wherein the jammer deploys countermeasure detection mechanisms to change its strategy. We highlight that the existing schemes against reactive jammers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Vivek Chaudhary , J. Harshan

Reactive jammers pose a severe security threat to robotic-swarm networks by selectively disrupting inter-agent communications and undermining formation integrity and mission success. Conventional countermeasures such as fixed power control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Bahman Abolhassani , Tugba Erpek , Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sastry Kompella

Smart jamming attacks on cellular campus networks represent an enormous potential threat, especially in the industrial environment. In complex production processes, the disruption of a single wireless connected Cyber-Physical System (CPS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-14 J. R. Stegmann , M. Gundall , H. D. Schotten

A natural basis for the detection of a wireless random reactive jammer (RRJ) is the perceived violation by the detector (typically located at the access point (AP)) of the carrier sensing protocol underpinning many wireless random access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Ni An , Steven Weber

Providing quality communications under adversarial electronic attacks, e.g., broadband jamming attacks, is a challenging task. Unlike state-of-the-art approaches which treat jamming signals as destructive interference, this paper presents a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jianhui Ma , Qiang Li , Zilong Liu , Linsong Du , Hongyang Chen , Nirwan Ansari

Wireless communication infrastructure is a cornerstone of modern digital society, yet it remains vulnerable to the persistent threat of wireless jamming. Attackers can easily create radio interference to overshadow legitimate signals,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Philipp Mackensen , Paul Staat , Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin , Christof Paar , Veelasha Moonsamy

This paper develops a novel framework to defeat a super-reactive jammer, one of the most difficult jamming attacks to deal with in practice. Specifically, the jammer has an unlimited power budget and is equipped with the self-interference…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Nguyen Van Huynh , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Thang X. Vu , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Symeon Chatzinotas

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

Due to the recent developments in the field of full-duplex radios and cognitive radios, a new class of reactive jamming attacks has gained attention wherein an adversary transmits jamming energy over the victim's frequency band and also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Soumita Hazra , J. Harshan

Wireless communications are vulnerable against radio frequency (RF) jamming which might be caused either intentionally or unintentionally. A particular subset of wireless networks, vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET) which incorporate a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Dimitrios Kosmanos , Dimitrios Karagiannis , Antonios Argyriou , Spyros Lalis , Leandros Maglaras

Optical networks are prone to physical layer attacks, in particular the insertion of high jamming power. In this paper, we present a study of jamming attacks in elastic optical networks (EON) by embedding the jamming into the physical layer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Mounir Bensalem , Ítalo Brasileiro , André Drummond , Admela Jukan

Traditional anti-jamming techniques like spread spectrum, adaptive power/rate control, and cognitive radio, have demonstrated effectiveness in mitigating jamming attacks. However, their robustness against the growing complexity of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-14 Abubakar Sani Ali , Shimaa Naser , Sami Muhaidat

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

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

Network slicing is a pivotal paradigm in wireless networks enabling customized services to users and applications. Yet, intelligent jamming attacks threaten the performance of network slicing. In this paper, we focus on the security aspect…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Shavbo Salehi , Hao Zhou , Medhat Elsayed , Majid Bavand , Raimundas Gaigalas , Yigit Ozcan , Melike Erol-Kantarci

The open radio access network (O-RAN) enables modular, intelligent, and programmable 5G network architectures through the adoption of software-defined networking, network function virtualization, and implementation of standardized open…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Md Habibur Rahman , Md Sharif Hossen , Nathan H. Stephenson , Vijay K. Shah , Aloizio Da Silva