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In-region location verification (IRLV) in wireless networks is the problem of deciding if user equipment (UE) is transmitting from inside or outside a specific physical region (e.g., a safe room). The decision process exploits the features…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-08 Alessandro Brighente , Francesco Formaggio , Marco Centenaro , Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio , Stefano Tomasin

Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices that are limited in power and processing are susceptible to physical layer (PHY) spoofing (signal exploitation) attacks owing to their inability to implement a full-blown protocol stack for security. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Alireza Nooraiepour , Waheed U. Bajwa , Narayan B. Mandayam

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

The unprecedented requirements of the Internet of Things (IoT) have made fine-grained optimization of spectrum resources an urgent necessity. Thus, designing techniques able to extract knowledge from the spectrum in real time and select the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Francesco Restuccia , Tommaso Melodia

By adding users as a new dimension to connectivity, on-body Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices have gained considerable momentum in recent years, while raising serious privacy and safety issues. Existing approaches to authenticate these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yong Huang , Wei Wang , Hao Wang , Tao Jiang , Qian Zhang

We propose a comprehensive framework exploiting the polarization sensitive array (PLA) to improve the physical layer security of wireless communications. More specifically, the polarization difference among signals is utilized to improve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Shiqi Gong , Chengwen Xing , Sheng Chen , Zesong Fei

Backscattering tag-to-tag networks (BTTNs) are emerging passive radio frequency identification (RFID) systems that facilitate direct communication between tags using an external RF field and play a pivotal role in ubiquitous Internet of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Yifan Zhang , Zheng Yan , Riku Jäntti

The wireless medium contains domain-specific information that can be used to complement and enhance traditional security mechanisms. In this paper we propose ways to exploit the fact that, in a typically rich scattering environment, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-07-29 Liang Xiao , Larry Greenstein , Narayan Mandayam , Wade Trappe

This paper develops a gradient-based meta-learning framework for real-time control of waveguided pinching-antenna systems under user-location uncertainty and physical-layer security (PLS) constraints. A probabilistic system model is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Khalid T. Musri , Akram Y. Sarhan , Osamah A. Abdullah , Hayder Al-Hraishawi

Wi-Fi networks are ubiquitous in both home and enterprise environments, serving as a primary medium for Internet access and forming the backbone of modern IoT ecosystems. However, their inherent vulnerabilities, combined with widespread…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Rayed Suhail Ahmad , Rehan Ahmad , Quamar Niyaz

Recently, Physical Layer Authentication (PLA) has attracted much attention since it takes advantage of the channel randomness nature of transmission media to achieve communication confidentiality and authentication. In the complex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Rui Meng , Xiaodong Xu , Bizhu Wang , Hao Sun , Shida Xia , Shujun Han , Ping Zhang

Wireless networks are vulnerable to physical layer spoofing attacks due to the wireless broadcast nature, thus, integrating communications and security (ICAS) is urgently needed for 6G endogenous security. In this letter, we propose an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ning Gao , Qiying Huang , Cen Li , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou

The use of lightweight machine learning (ML) models in internet of things (IoT) networks enables resource constrained IoT devices to perform on-device inference for several critical applications. However, the inference accuracy deteriorates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Henrik C. M. Frederiksen , Junya Shiraishi , Cedomir Stefanovic , Hei Victor Cheng , Shashi Raj Pandey

New capabilities in wireless network security have been enabled by deep learning, which leverages patterns in radio frequency (RF) data to identify and authenticate devices. Open-set detection is an area of deep learning that identifies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Luke Puppo , Weng-Keen Wong , Bechir Hamdaoui , Abdurrahman Elmaghbub

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

As location-based applications become ubiquitous in emerging wireless networks, Location Verification Systems (LVS) are of growing importance. In this paper we propose, for the first time, a rigorous information-theoretic framework for an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Shihao Yan , Robert Malaney , Ido Nevat , Gareth W. Peters

Location information claimed by devices will play an ever-increasing role in future wireless networks such as 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT). Against this background, the verification of such claimed location information will be an issue…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Ullah Ihsan , Ziqing Wang , Robert Malaney , Andrew Dempster , Shihao Yan

As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow, ensuring the security of systems that rely on wireless IoT devices has become critically important. Deep learning-based passive physical layer transmitter authorization systems have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Samurdhi Karunaratne , Samer Hanna , Danijela Cabric

The growing deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in smart cities and industrial environments increases vulnerability to stealthy, multi-stage advanced persistent threats (APTs) that exploit wireless communication. Detection is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Quhura Fathima , Neda Moghim , Mostafa Taghizade Firouzjaee , Christo K. Thomas , Ross Gore , Walid Saad

Recent literature has demonstrated the improved data discovery and delivery efficiency gained through applying named data networking (NDN) to a variety of information-centric Internet of things (IoT) applications. However, from a data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Peng Hao , Xianbin Wang