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This paper studies the problem of mitigating reactive jamming, where a jammer adopts a dynamic policy of selecting channels and sensing thresholds to detect and jam ongoing transmissions. The transmitter-receiver pair learns to avoid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Kemal Davaslioglu , Sastry Kompella

This paper proposes to use Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) as a green jammer to attack a legitimate communication without using any internal energy to generate jamming signals. In particular, the IRS is used to intelligently reflect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Bin Lyu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Shimin Gong , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim

As Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) deployments expand and adversaries adopt 'store-now, decrypt-later' strategies, operators need empirical data on the cost of migrating critical control interfaces to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mario Perera , Michael Mackay , Max Hashem Eiza , Alessandro Raschellà , Nathan Shone , Mukesh Kumar Maheshwari

The Open Radio Access Network (RAN) paradigm envisions a more flexible, interoperable, and intelligent RAN ecosystem via new open interfaces and elements like the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC). However, the impact of these elements on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 João Paulo S. H. Lima , George N. Katsaros , Konstantinos Nikitopoulos

Consider a scenario where Alice wishes to send a message $m$ to Bob in a time-slotted wireless network. However, there exists an adversary, Carol, who aims to prevent the transmission of $m$ by jamming the communication channel. There is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Valerie King , Seth Pettie , Jared Saia , Maxwell Young

Malicious attacks such as jamming can cause significant disruption or complete denial of service (DoS) to wireless communication protocols. Moreover, jamming devices are getting smarter, making them difficult to detect. Forward error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Furkan Ercan , Kevin Galligan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Medard , David Starobinski , Rabia Tugce Yazicigil

Open radio access network (ORAN) Alliance offers a disaggregated RAN functionality built using open interface specifications between blocks. To efficiently support various competing services, \textit{namely} enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Fatemeh Kavehmadavani , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas

Wireless jamming identification, which detects and classifies electromagnetic jamming from non-cooperative devices, is crucial for emerging low-altitude wireless networks consisting of many drone terminals that are highly susceptible to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Pengyu Wang , Zhaocheng Wang , Tianqi Mao , Weijie Yuan , Haijun Zhang , George K. Karagiannidis

Adversarial machine learning, focused on studying various attacks and defenses on machine learning (ML) models, is rapidly gaining importance as ML is increasingly being adopted for optimizing wireless systems such as Open Radio Access…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ravikumar Balakrishnan , Marius Arvinte , Nageen Himayat , Hosein Nikopour , Hassnaa Moustafa

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

Despite the growing interest in low-altitude economy (LAE) applications, including UAV-based logistics and emergency response, fundamental challenges remain in orchestrating such missions over complex, signal-constrained environments. These…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Vuk Marojevic

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) can redirect electromagnetic waves to desired directions to enhance signal coverage and/or improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the user equipment (UE). We present the design, implementation, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Tawfik Osman , Aditya S. Shekhawat , Abhradeep Roy , Georgios C. Trichopoulos , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) is an emerging paradigm, whereby virtualized network infrastructure elements from different vendors communicate via open, standardized interfaces. A key element therein is the RAN Intelligent Controller…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Jorge Martín-Pérez , Nuria Molner , Francesco Malandrino , Carlos Jesús Bernardos , Antonio de la Oliva , David Gomez-Barquero

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

Because of the open access nature of wireless communications, wireless networks can suffer from malicious activity, such as jamming attacks, aimed at undermining the network's ability to sustain communication links and acceptable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Ying Liu , Andrey Garnaev , Wade Trappe

In millimeter-wave (MMW) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications, users and their corresponding base station (BS) have to align their beam during both initial access and data transmissions to compensate for the high propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Donatella Darsena , Francesco Verde

Security in passive resource-constrained Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags is of much interest nowadays. Resistance against illegal tracking, cloning, timing, and replay attacks are necessary for a secure RFID authentication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Atsuko Miyaji , Mohammad Shahriar Rahman , Masakazu Soshi

Wireless networks are vulnerable to jamming attacks due to the shared communication medium, which can severely degrade performance and disrupt services. Despite extensive research, current jamming detection methods often rely on simulated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ioannis Panitsas , Yagmur Yigit , Leandros Tassiulas , Leandros Maglaras , Berk Canberk

In this paper, we investigate the problem of jamming detection and channel estimation during multi-user uplink beam training under random pilot jamming attacks in beamspace massive multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) systems. For jamming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Pengguang Du , Cheng Zhang , Yindi Jing , Chao Fang , Zhilei Zhang , Yongming Huang

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