Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), in recent times, have become one of the most promising network solutions with a wide variety of applications in the areas of agriculture, environment, healthcare and the military. Notwithstanding these promising appli...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are vulnerable to various security threats. One of the most common types of vulnerability threat is the jamming attack, where the attacker uses the same frequency signals to jam the network transmission. In this paper,...
In contemporary networked control systems (NCSs), ensuring robust and adaptive security measures against dynamic threats like jamming attacks is crucial. These attacks can disrupt the control signals, leading to degraded performance or even catastrop...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) operate under strict energy constraints and are therefore highly vulnerable to radio interference, particularly jamming attacks that directly affect communication availability and network lifetime. Although jamming and...
LoRaWAN is widely used for IoT environmental monitoring, but its lightweight security mechanisms leave the physical layer vulnerable to availability attacks such as jamming and battery-depletion. These risks are particularly critical in mission-criti...
The Internet of Things (IoT) contains many devices that can compute and communicate, creating large networks. Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) represents a developed application of IoT, connecting with embedded technologies in production in indus...
To successfully realize the ubiquitous network environment including home automation or industrial control systems, it is important to be able to resist a jamming attack. This has recently been considered as an extremely threatening attack because it...
Jamming attacks in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) scenarios are detrimental to the performance of these networks and affect the security and stability of the service perceived by users. Therefore, the evaluation of the effectiveness of smart environ...
Reactive jamming attacks have been considered as one of the most lethal and disruptive threats to subvert or disrupt wireless networks since they attack the broadcast nature of transmission mediums by injecting interfering signals. Existing counterme...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a key technology to interconnect the real and digital worlds, enabling the development of smart cities and services. The timely collection of data is essential for IoT services. In scenarios such as agriculture, indust...
In this work, we compare a recently proposed routing protocol, the multi-parent hierarchical (MPH) protocol, with two well-known protocols, the ad hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) and dynamic source routing (DSR). For this purpose, we have develo...
In recent years, with the upgrading of the attack technology, stealthy DoS jamming attacks have become the primary factor to threaten the security of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS). Considering the complex industrial scenarios of ICPS, whic...
In this work, we present the design of a mitigation scheme for jamming attacks integrated to the routing protocols MPH, AODV, and DSR. The resulting protocols are named MPH-M (Multi-Parent Hierarchical - Modified), AODV-M (Ad hoc On Demand Distance V...
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are transforming transportation by improving safety, efficiency, and intelligence through integrated sensing, computing, and communication technologies. However, their growing reliance on Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communic...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks have a wide range of applications, such as in the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G communications, and so forth. However, the communications between UAVs and UAVs to ground control stations mainly use radio channels...
Because of the popularity of wireless technology, jamming attack is one of the most critical issues in wireless networks. Wireless jamming attack is one type of denial-of-service attacks where attackers send malicious messages or signal on a legitima...
The future integration of drones in 6G networks will significantly enhance their capabilities, enabling a wide range of new applications based on autonomous operation. However, drone networks are particularly vulnerable to jamming attacks, a type of...
The rendezvous process is considered a key operation that allows a secondary user (SU) to access an unused authorized spectrum in cognitive radio networks (CRNs). Most existing works focused on fast guaranteed rendezvous without considering a sophist...
Lightweight session key agreement schemes are expected to play a central role in building Internet of things (IoT) security in sixth-generation (6G) networks. A well-established approach deriving from the physical layer is a secret key generation (SK...
In this paper, we provide an overview of recent research efforts on networked control systems under denial-of-service attacks. Our goal is to discuss the utility of different attack modeling and analysis techniques proposed in the literature for addr...
Submarine cable systems, serving as the critical backbone of global communications, face evolving resilience threats. This work proposes a novel sensing attack that utilizes ultra-narrow-linewidth lasers to surveil these infrastructures. First, the N...
Wireless networks are vulnerable to jamming attacks. Jamming in wireless communication becomes a major research problem due to ease in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) launching and blocking of communication channels. Jamming is a subset of Denial of Se...
The Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWA) has already started to gain a notorious adoption in the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape due to its enormous potential. It is already employed in a wide variety of scenarios involving parking lot occupancy, pa...
In this paper, we investigate jamming attacks in the physical layer against cooperative communications networks, where a jammer tries to block the data communication between the source and destination. An energy-constrained relay is able to assist th...
Network attack detection is a critical issue in complex networks at present, one which becomes even more challenging as the network complexity grows and new threats emerge. Existing security models may encounter problems such as low accuracy, a high...
This paper is concerned with the observer-based
Machine learning techniques have attracted considerable attention for wireless networks because of their impressive performance in complicated scenarios and usefulness in various applications. However, training with and sharing raw data obtained loca...
When wireless communication networks encounter jamming attacks, they experience spectrum resource occupation and data communication failures. In order to address this issue, an anti-jamming algorithm based on distributed multi-agent reinforcement lea...
The adoption of the global positioning system (GPS) within the marine industry has revolutionized the marine operations by condensing the navigation of a vessel into an integrated bridge system (IBS). An IBS acts as the main command and control of a...
In order to test the performance of laser devices for attacking miniature UAVs, we studied the principle of laser devices on soft killing and hard killing. Then, the flight test conditions of miniature UAVs were constructed, and the laser devices wer...
LoRaWANs are increasingly recognized for their vulnerability to various jamming attacks, which can significantly disrupt communication between end nodes and gateways. This paper explores the feasibility of executing reactive jammers upon detecting pa...
Although antenna array-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers can be used to mitigate both narrowband and wideband electronic interference sources, measurement distortions induced by array processing methods are not suitable for hi...
The proposed mechanism for jamming attack detection for wireless sensor networks is novel in three respects: firstly, it upgrades the jammer to include versatile military jammers; secondly, it graduates from the existing node-centric detection system...
In this work, two new self-tuning collaborative-based mechanisms for jamming detection are proposed. These techniques are named (i) Connected Mechanism and (ii) Extended Mechanism. The first one detects jamming by comparing the performance parameters...
The smart grid system is one of the key infrastructures required to sustain our future society. It is a complex system that comprises two independent parts: power grids and communication networks. There have been several cyber attacks on smart grid s...
Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) are equipped with numerous sensors, and data is transmitted through networks. Attackers may remotely compromise unmanned surface vehicle (USV) systems and commit criminal acts via networks, causing USVs to deviate fro...
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The Artificial Potential Field (APF) method is a classical path planning method for unmanned ships, relying on Global Positioning System (GPS) positioning information for path planning. Unfortunately, once the path planning algorithm uses inaccurate...
Protecting communications within vehicular networks is of paramount importance, particularly when data are transmitted using wireless ad-hoc technologies such as Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC). Vulnerabilities in Vehicle-to-Everything (V...
Autonomous ground vehicle convoys heavily rely on wireless communications to perform leader-follower operations, which make them particularly vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks such as jamming. To mitigate the effects of jamming on autonomous co...
Power-Line Communication (PLC) allows data transmission through existing power lines, thus avoiding the expensive deployment of ad hoc network infrastructures. However, power line networks remain vastly unattended, which allows tampering by malicious...
It is well-known that GNSS high accuracy solutions are increasingly vulnerable to jamming and spoofing attacks, posing significant challenges to their reliability, security, and accuracy. In the past years, GNSS communities have witnessed an increase...
Urban air mobility (UAM) has become a potential candidate for civilization for serving smart citizens, such as through delivery, surveillance, and air taxis. However, safety concerns have grown since commercial UAM uses a publicly available communica...
Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communication, it is vulnerable to malicious jamming attacks. Meanwhile, multiple users need to share the limited spectrum resources to enhance the spectrum utilization efficiency because of the scarcity of wir...
With the increase in the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the security threat they face has become more pervasive. Recent research has demonstrated that most IoT devices are insecure and vulnerable to a range of cyber attacks. The impact...
Increased interest in the development and integration of navigation and positioning services into a wide range of receivers makes them susceptible to a variety of security attacks such as Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) jamming and spoofin...
Multiple access channel (MAC) networks use a broadcasting algorithm called the Binary Exponential Backoff (BEB) to mediate access to the shared communication channel by competing nodes and resolve their collisions. While the BEB achieves fair through...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are widely used in various fields, and the reliability and performance of WSNs are critical for their applications. However, WSNs are vulnerable to jamming attacks, and the impact of movable jammers on WSNs’ reli...
As the core component of the smart grid, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is responsible for automated billing, demand response, load forecasting, management, etc. The jamming attack poses a serious threat to the AMI communication networks, esp...
In this paper, we model and investigate the random access (RA) performance of sensor nodes (SN) in a wireless sensor network (WSN). In the WSN, a central head sensor (HS) collects the information from distributed SNs, and jammers disturb the informat...
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