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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

In this paper, we exploit the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) architecture to design a physical-layer authentication (PLA) framework that can simultaneously authenticate multiple distributed users across the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Isabella W. G. da Silva , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

Wireless networks are highly vulnerable to spoofing attacks, especially when attackers transmit consecutive spoofing packets. Conventional physical layer authentication (PLA) methods have mostly focused on single-packet spoofing attack.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yijia Guo , Junqing Zhang , Yao-Win Peter Hong

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

The robustness of angle of arrival (AoA) as a physical layer authentication (PLA) feature under spoofing attacks is studied, assuming a digital uniform linear array verifier. The verifier estimates the AoA assuming a legitimate user's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Sotiris Skaperas , Arsenia Chorti

Feature-based physical layer authentication (PLA) schemes, using position-specific channel characteristics as identifying features, can provide lightweight protection against impersonation attacks in overhead-limited applications like e.g.,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Henrik Forssell , Ragnar Thobaben

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

Re-configurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) technology is increasingly becoming a potential component for next-generation wireless networks, offering enhanced performance in terms of throughput, spectral, and energy efficiency. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Hala Amin , Waqas Aman , Saif Al-Kuwari

Performance of the existing physical layer authentication schemes could be severely affected by the imperfect estimates and variations of the communication link attributes used. The commonly adopted static hypothesis testing for physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-08 He Fang , Xianbin Wang , Lajos Hanzo

Authentication is a key element of security, by which a receiver confirms the sender identity of a message. Typical approaches include either key-based authentication at the application layer or physical layer authentication (PLA), where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Stefano Tomasin

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) 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

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

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) is one of promising techniques to fulfill…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Zhifang Gu , He Chen , Pingping Xu , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

The physical layer authentication (PLA) is a promising technology which can enhance the access security of a massive number of devices in the near future. In this paper, we propose a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted PLA…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Ning Gao , Shuchen Meng , Cen Li , Shengguo Meng , Wankai Tang , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou

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) 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

DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses great security concerns for security-critical systems. In this paper, a novel adaptive-patch-based physical attack (AP-PA) framework is proposed, which aims to generate adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Jiawei Lian , Shaohui Mei , Shun Zhang , Mingyang Ma

Deep neural network models are used today in various applications of artificial intelligence, the strengthening of which, in the face of adversarial attacks is of particular importance. An appropriate solution to adversarial attacks is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mohammad Khalooei , Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour , Maryam Amirmazlaghani
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