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Secure Pinching Antenna-aided ISAC
Elmehdi Illi, Marwa Qaraqe, Ali Ghrayeb
In this letter, a pinching antenna (PA)-aided scheme for establishing a secure integrated sensing and communication system (ISAC) is investigated. The underlying system comprises a…
On the Secrecy of RIS-aided THz Wireless System subject to fading with Pointing Errors
Faissal El Bouanani, Elmehdi Illi, Marwa Qaraqe +1
The study examines the secrecy outage probability (SOP) and intercept probability (IP) of a reflecting intelligent surface (RIS)-enabled THz wireless network experiencing fad…
On the Vulnerability of Underwater Magnetic Induction Communication
Muhammad Muzzammil, Waqas Aman, Irfan Ullah +4
Typical magnetic induction (MI) communication is commonly considered a secure underwater wireless communication (UWC) technology due to its non-audible and non-visible nature compa…
On the Secrecy-Sensing Optimization of RIS-assisted Full-Duplex Integrated Sensing and Communication Network
Elmehdi Illi, Ahmad Bazzi, Marwa Qaraqe +1
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has recently emerged as a viable technique for establishing sensing and communication using the same resources. Nonetheless, the operati…
VMGuard: Reputation-Based Incentive Mechanism for Poisoning Attack Detection in Vehicular Metaverse
Ismail Lotfi, Marwa Qaraqe, Ali Ghrayeb +1
The vehicular Metaverse represents an emerging paradigm that merges vehicular communications with virtual environments, integrating real-world data to enhance in-vehicle services.…
Coordinated Half-Duplex/Full-Duplex Cooperative Rate-Splitting Multiple Access in Multi-Cell Networks
Mohamed Elhattab, Shreya Khisa, Chadi Assi +3
This paper explores downlink Cooperative Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (C-RSMA) in a multi-cell wireless network with the assistance of Joint-Transmission Coordinated Multipoint (…
FedPot: A Quality-Aware Collaborative and Incentivized Honeypot-Based Detector for Smart Grid Networks
Abdullatif Albaseer, Nima Abdi, Mohamed Abdallah +2
Honeypot technologies provide an effective defense strategy for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), particularly in enhancing the Advanced Metering Infrastructure's (AMI) sec…
Enhancing Trust and Security in the Vehicular Metaverse: A Reputation-Based Mechanism for Participants with Moral Hazard
Ismail Lotfi, Marwa Qaraqe, Ali Ghrayeb +1
In this paper, we tackle the issue of moral hazard within the realm of the vehicular Metaverse. A pivotal facilitator of the vehicular Metaverse is the effective orchestration of i…
Performance Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Channel Amid Jamming by Random Jammers
Waqas Aman, Saif Al-Kuwari, Marwa Qaraqe
Underwater communication networks are increasingly popularized by various important maritime applications. However, this also leads to an increased threat landscape. This letter pr…
On the Secrecy Enhancement of an Integrated Ground-Aerial Network with a Hybrid FSO/THz Feeder Link
Elmehdi Illi, Marwa Qaraqe
High altitude platforms (HAPs)-aided terrestrial-aerial communication technology based on free-space optical (FSO) and Terahertz (THz) feeder links has been attracting notable inte…
A BFF-Based Attention Mechanism for Trajectory Estimation in mmWave MIMO Communications
Mohammad Shamsesalehi, Mahmoud Ahmadian Attari, Mohammad Amin Maleki Sadr +2
This paper explores a novel Neural Network (NN) architecture suitable for Beamformed Fingerprint (BFF) localization in a millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MI…
Expanding Boundaries: Cross-Media Routing for Seamless Underwater and Aerial Communication
Waqas Aman, Flavio Giorgi, Giulio Attenni +5
The colossal evolution of wireless communication technologies over the past few years has driven increased interest in its integration in a variety of less-explored environments, s…
Location-based Physical Layer Authentication in Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks
Waqas Aman, Saif Al-Kuwari, Marwa Qaraqe
Research in underwater communication is rapidly becoming attractive due to its various modern applications. An efficient mechanism to secure such communication is via physical laye…
Full-Duplex Magnetic Induction Communication: Opportunities and Challenges
Muhammad Muzzammil, Saif Al-Kuwari, Niaz Ahmed +1
The demand for high data rates is rapidly increasing as the interest in Magnetic Induction (MI) communication-based underwater applications grow. However, the data rate in MI is li…
Can Artificial Noise Boost Further the Secrecy of Dual-hop RIS-aided Networks?
Elmehdi Illi, Marwa K. Qaraqe, Faissal El Bouanani +1
In this paper, we quantify the physical layer security of a dual-hop regenerative relaying-based wireless communication system assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs…
On the Physical Layer Security of a Dual-Hop UAV-based Network in the Presence of per-hop Eavesdropping and Imperfect CSI
Elmehdi Illi, Marwa K. Qaraqe, F. El Bouanani +1
In this paper, the physical layer security of a dual-hop unmanned aerial vehicle-based wireless network, subject to imperfect channel state information (CSI) and mobility effects,…
A Mobile Food Recognition System for Dietary Assessment
Şeymanur Aktı, Marwa Qaraqe, Hazım Kemal Ekenel
Food recognition is an important task for a variety of applications, including managing health conditions and assisting visually impaired people. Several food recognition studies h…
On Optimizing the Power Allocation and the Decoding Order in Uplink Cooperative NOMA
Mohamed Elhattab, Mohamed Amine Arfaoui, Chadi Assi +2
In this paper, we investigate for the first time the dynamic power allocation and decoding order at the base station (BS) of two-user uplink (UL) cooperative non-orthogonal multipl…
LoRa-RL: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Resource Management in Hybrid Energy LoRa Wireless Networks
Rami Hamdi, Emna Baccour, Aiman Erbad +2
LoRa wireless networks are considered as a key enabling technology for next generation internet of things (IoT) systems. New IoT deployments (e.g., smart city scenarios) can have t…
CoMP-Assisted NOMA and Cooperative NOMA in Indoor VLC Cellular Systems
Mohamed Amine Arfaoui, Ali Ghrayeb, Chadi Assi +1
In this paper, we investigate the dynamic power allocation for a visible light communication (VLC) cellular system consisting of two coordinating attocells, each equipped with one…
Deep Learning Based Proactive Optimization for Mobile LiFi Systems with Channel Aging
Mohamed Amine Arfaoui, Ali Ghrayeb, Chadi Assi +1
This paper investigates the channel aging problem of mobile light-fidelity (LiFi) systems. In the LiFi physical layer, the majority of the optimization problems for mobile users ar…