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The conventional device authentication of wireless networks usually relies on a security server and centralized process, leading to long latency and risk of single-point of failure. While these challenges might be mitigated by collaborative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-28 He Fang , Zhenlong Xiao , Xianbin Wang , Li Xu , Lajos Hanzo

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

The low-cost, user-friendly, and convenient nature of Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems (AFRS) makes them suitable for a wide range of applications. This spreading use of AFRS also makes them vulnerable to various security threats.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Anuj Rai , Ashutosh Anshul , Ashwini Jha , Prayag Jain , Ramprakash Sharma , Somnath Dey

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

Embedded devices are omnipresent in modern networks including the ones operating inside critical environments. However, due to their constrained nature, novel mechanisms are required to provide external, and non-intrusive anomaly detection.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Kurt A. Vedros , Georgios Michail Makrakis , Constantinos Kolias , Robert C. Ivans , Craig Rieger

With widely deployed WiFi network and the uniqueness feature (fingerprint) of wireless channel information, fingerprinting based WiFi positioning is currently the mainstream indoor positioning method, in which fingerprint database…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Qiyue Li , Heng Qu , Zhi Liu , Nana Zhou , Wei Sun , Stephan Sigg , Jie Li

The rapid evolution of generative AI, from GANs to modern diffusion models, has resulted in increasingly subtle discriminative clues. These fine-grained signals are often overshadowed by dominant, high-fidelity image content (e.g., the main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xiaoyu Zhou , Jianwei Fei , Peipeng Yu , Jingchang Xie , Chong Cheng , Zhihua Xia

The rise of wireless technologies has made the Internet of Things (IoT) ubiquitous, but the broadcast nature of wireless communications exposes IoT to authentication risks. Physical layer authentication (PLA) offers a promising solution by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yijia Guo , Junqing Zhang , Yao-Win Peter Hong , Stefano Tomasin

The rapid advancement of 6G wireless networks, IoT, and edge computing has significantly expanded the cyberattack surface, necessitating more intelligent and adaptive vulnerability detection mechanisms. Traditional security methods, while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Shuo Yang , Xinran Zheng , Jinfeng Xu , Jinze Li , Danyang Song , Zheyu Chen , Edith C. H. Ngai

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

Electroencephalogram (EEG) decoding models for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) struggle with cross-dataset learning and generalization due to channel layout inconsistencies, non-stationary signal distributions, and limited…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xiaoqing Chen , Siyang Li , Dongrui Wu

With the widespread deployment of fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, research on sixth-generation (6G) technology is gaining momentum. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is anticipated to play a significant role in 6G, particularly through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhen Qiao , Jiang Xue , Junkai Zhang , Guanzhang Liu , Xiaoqin Ma , Runhua Li , Faheem A. Khan , John S. Thompson , Zongben Xu

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

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) signify a pivotal advancement in 6G communication by enhancing spectral efficiency and robustness. However, obtaining accurate channel state information (CSI) in FAS poses challenges due to its complex physical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Yuan Gao , Yiming Liu , Runze Yu , Shengli Liu , Yanliang Jin , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu , Xiaoli Chu

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a cornerstone technique for enhancing large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge. However, current RAG systems face two critical limitations: (1) they inefficiently retrieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Wang Chen , Guanqiang Qi , Weikang Li , Yang Li , Deguo Xia , Jizhou Huang

Physical layer key generation (PLKG) has emerged as a promising solution for achieving highly secured and low-latency key distribution, offering information-theoretic security that is inherently resilient to quantum attacks. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ziao Wang , Zheng Dong , He Chen , Jun Chen , Dongxiao Yu

Physical layer key generation (PLKG) is a promising technology to obtain symmetric keys between a pair of wireless communication users in a plug-and-play manner. The shared entropy source almost entirely comes from the intrinsic randomness…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Ning Gao , Yu Han , Nannan Li , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou

Accurate cancer survival prediction requires integration of diverse data modalities that reflect the complex interplay between imaging, clinical parameters, and textual reports. However, existing multimodal approaches suffer from simplistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Aakash Tripathi , Asim Waqas , Matthew B. Schabath , Yasin Yilmaz , Ghulam Rasool

As the primary mechanism of digital authentication, user-created passwords exhibit common patterns and regularities that can be learned from leaked datasets. Password choices are profoundly shaped by external factors, including social…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xudong Yang , Jincheng Li , Kaiwen Xing , Zhenjia Xiao , Mingjian Duan , Weili Han , Hu Xiong

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) has become an integral part of ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) applications due to its energy-harvesting capabilities and ultra-low-power consumption. However, the open wireless environment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yifan Zhang , Yongchao Dang , Masoud Kaveh , Zheng Yan , Riku Jäntti , Zhu Han