Intentional electromagnetic interference attacks (e.g., jamming) against wireless connected devices such as the Internet of Things (IoT) remain a serious challenge, especially as such attacks evolve in complexity. Similarly, eavesdropping on wireless...
This paper investigates physical layer security (PHY-security) for multi-hop transmission in underlay cognitive radio networks under various eavesdropping attacks. To enhance secrecy performance, we propose two opportunistic scheduling schemes. The f...
The security and privacy of underwater acoustic sensor networks has received extensive attention recently due to the proliferation of underwater activities. This paper proposes an analytical model to investigate the eavesdropping attacks in underwate...
In recent years, the problem of cyber–physical systems’ remote state estimations under eavesdropping attacks have been a source of concern. Aiming at the existence of eavesdroppers in multi-system CPSs, the optimal attack energy allocatio...
Multihop transmission is one of the important techniques to overcome the transmission coverage of each node in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, multihop transmission has a security issue due to the nature of a wireless medium. Additionally,...
Tokens are widely used to secure client–server communications in systems based on automatic authentication. These tokens can be vulnerable to hacking, as an attacker can impersonate a real user by eavesdropping on their communications. In this...
The rapid deployment of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, coupled with the integration of 5G/6G and Internet of Vehicles (IoV) technologies, has transformed charging stations into cyber–physical systems that rely on wireless commun...
With the development of mobile crowdsensing systems (MCSs), wireless network transmission efficiency has attracted widespread attention. Network coding can be used in wireless communication to improve network throughput and robustness, which allows i...
With the continuous growth of global communication demands, the space-ground integrated optical network (SGION), composed of the satellite optical network (SON) and terrestrial optical network (TON), has gradually become a critical component of globa...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication networks are highly vulnerable to eavesdropping due to their open and dynamic air–ground channels, making physical layer security (PLS) a critical design requirement. Existing security mechanisms ofte...
A new sigma identification protocol (SIP) based on matrix power function (MPF) defined over the modified medial platform semigroup and power near-semiring is proposed. It is proved that MPF SIP is resistant against direct and eavesdropping attacks. O...
Eavesdropping attack is one of the most serious threats in industrial crowdsensing networks. In this paper, we propose a novel anti-eavesdropping scheme by introducing friendly jammers to an industrial crowdsensing network. In particular, we establis...
Establishing robust cybersecurity for Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems poses significant challenges for system operators due to IoT resource constraints, trade-offs between security and performance, diversity of applications, and their security re...
Until the implementation of the IEEE 802.11az standard in common devices becomes a reality, the IEEE 802.11mc fine time measurement (FTM) procedure used for location purposes in indoor environments may be easily compromised by an adversary. Despite t...
Motivated by the increasing risk of data leaks in distributed networks, we consider the privacy-preserving problem in a consensus network in the presence of an eavesdropper who is able to intercept the data transmitted on the network. First, we intro...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely used for applications in numerous fields. One of the main challenges is the limited energy resources when designing secure routing in such networks. Hierarchical organization of nodes in the network ca...
Pilot contamination attacks (PCAs) pose a great physical-layer threat to modern multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) systems by exploiting channel reciprocity to corrupt channel state information estimation. While existing literature acknowled...
Deep joint source–channel coding (JSCC) enables learned wireless image transmission while exposing transmitted representations to unintended receivers. A useful protection layer must connect a reproducible keyed interface to legitimate image qu...
A protection of information against electromagnetic penetration is very often considered in the aspect of the possibility of obtaining data contained in printed documents or displayed on screen monitors. However, many printing devices are equipped wi...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play an important role in Cyber Physical Social Sensing (CPSS) systems. An eavesdropping attack is one of the most serious threats to WSNs since it is a prerequisite for other malicious attacks. In this paper, we propo...
This work addresses the security of a two-user broadcast channel. The challenge of protecting a broadcast channel is associated with the necessity of securing the system, not only against eavesdropping attacks originating from external nodes, but als...
Traditional wireless security focuses on preventing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications from suspicious eavesdropping and/or jamming attacks. However, there is a growing need for governments to keep malicious UAV communications under legitim...
The security and privacy provided by Visible Light Communication (VLC) technologies is an area that has been slightly addressed due to the misconception that, since light does not go through solid objects like walls, VLC-based communications cannot b...
Passive Optical Networks (PONs) play a vital role in providing high-speed broadband access in the 5G and F5G generation. However, their shared nature makes them vulnerable to physical-layer attacks like fiber bending, tapping and fiber cut. The probl...
The cognitive radio network (CRN) is vulnerable to various newly-arising attacks targeting the weaknesses of cognitive radio (CR) communication and networking. In this paper, we focus on improving the secrecy performance of CR communications in a dec...
A saturation attack can be employed for compromising the practical security of continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD). In this paper, we suggest a countermeasure approach to resisting this attack by embedding an adjustable optical filte...
Due to their inherent openness, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks. Addressing the issue of secure Internet Key Exchange (IKE) in the absence of reliable third parties like CA/PKI (Certificate Authority/Public Key...
Recently, Zhao et al. proposed a semi-quantum bi-signature (SQBS) scheme based on W states with two quantum signers and just one classical verifier. In this study, we highlight three security issues with Zhao et al.’s SQBS scheme. In Zhao et al...
In this paper, we present the construction of a sigma identification protocol based on matrix power function (MPF) defined over a certain non-commuting platform group. We use the previously defined templates for generating public parameters of our pr...
Quantum computers have the potential to break the public-key cryptosystems widely used in key exchange and digital signature applications. To address this issue, quantum key distribution (QKD) offers a robust countermeasure against quantum computer a...
Threats of eavesdropping and information leakages have increased sharply owing to advancements in wireless communication technology. In particular, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become vulnerable to sniffing or jamming attacks because broadcast co...
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), users can use broadcast authentication mechanisms to connect to the target network and disseminate their messages within the network. Since data transfer for sensor networks is wireless, as a result, attackers can...
With the wide application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), secure data sharing in networks is becoming a hot research topic and attracting more and more attention. A huge challenge is securely transmitting the data from the source node to the sink...
Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) have great potential applications in military missions or emergency rescue due to their no-infrastructure, self-organizing and multi hop capability characteristics. Obviously, it is important to implement a low-cost an...
This paper presents an advanced framework for securing 6G communication by integrating deep learning and physical layer security (PLS). The proposed model incorporates multi-stage detection mechanisms to enhance security against various attacks on th...
The design of the Controller Area Network (CAN bus) did not account for security issues and, consequently, attacks often use external mobile communication interfaces to conduct eavesdropping, replay, spoofing, and denial-of-service attacks on a CAN b...
We address minimization of information leakage from continuous-variable quantum channels. It is known, that regime of minimum leakage can be accessible for the modulated signal states with variance equivalent to a shot noise, i.e., vacuum fluctuation...
In this paper, we propose an efficient multi-party quantum secret sharing scheme based on GHZ entangled state. The participants in this scheme are divided into two groups, and share secrets as a group. There is no need to exchange any measurement inf...
Highly sensitive information about people’s social life and daily activities flows in smart home networks. As such, if attackers can manage to capture or even eavesdrop on this information, the privacy of the users can be compromised. The conse...
DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is an advanced version of the traditional DNS protocol that prevents eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks by encrypting queries and responses. However, it introduces new challenges such as encrypted traffic communication,...
Free Space Optical (FSO) communication has potential terrestrial and non-terrestrial applications. It allows large bandwidth for higher data transfer capacity. Due to its high directivity, it has a potential security advantage over traditional radio...
The precoder obtained using the traditional singular value decomposition (SVD) method for legitimate user’s channel, while achieving the highest spectral efficiency for the legitimate user, cannot defend against eavesdropping attacks, thus posi...
Low power wide area network (LPWAN) is among the fastest growing networks in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Owing to varieties of outstanding features which include long range communication and low power consumption, LPWANs are fast becoming...
As a key enabling technology of the Internet of Thing (IoT), WiFi sensing has undergone noteworthy advancements and brought significant improvement to prevailing IoT systems and applications. The past few years have witnessed growing efforts in WiFi...
In this paper, we present a verifiable arbitrated quantum signature scheme based on controlled quantum teleportation. The five-qubit entangled state functions as a quantum channel. The proposed scheme uses mutually unbiased bases particles as decoy p...
With the widespread application of the Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring communication security for IoT devices is of considerable importance. Since IoT data are vulnerable to eavesdropping, tampering, forgery, and other attacks during an open netwo...
Smart home technologies have attracted more users in recent years due to significant advancements in their underlying enabler components, such as sensors, actuators, and processors, which are spreading in various domains and have become more affordab...
Full network level privacy has often been categorized into four sub-categories: Identity, Route, Location and Data privacy. Achieving full network level privacy is a critical and challenging problem due to the constraints imposed by the sensor nodes...
Despite the unconditionally secure theory of the Quantum Key Distribution (
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been extensively studied on the Internet of Things (IoT) systems to improve communication performance. In this paper, we aimed to counter simultaneous jamming and e...
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