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most citedUnderwater and Air-Water Wireless Communication: State-of-the-art, Channel Characteristics, Security, and Open Problems

5 citations · 6 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.ET2025

Integrating Communication, Sensing, and Security: Progress and Prospects of PLS in ISAC Systems

Waqas Aman, El-Mehdi Illi, Marwa Qaraqe +1

The sixth generation of wireless networks defined several key performance indicators (KPIs) for assessing its networks, mainly in terms of reliability, coverage, and sensing. In th…

cs.CR2025

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…

cs.RO2025

Benchmarking Online Object Trackers for Underwater Robot Position Locking Applications

Ali Safa, Waqas Aman, Ali Al-Zawqari +1

Autonomously controlling the position of Remotely Operated underwater Vehicles (ROVs) is of crucial importance for a wide range of underwater engineering applications, such as in t…

eess.SP2024

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…

cs.CR2024

On the Potential of Re-configurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-assisted Physical Layer Authentication (PLA)

Hala Amin, Waqas Aman, Saif Al-Kuwari

Re-configurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) technology is increasingly becoming a potential component for next-generation wireless networks, offering enhanced performance in terms o…

eess.SP2023

Hybrid PLS-ML Authentication Scheme for V2I Communication Networks

Hala Amin, Jawaher Kaldari, Nora Mohamed +2

Vehicular communication networks are rapidly emerging as vehicles become smarter. However, these networks are increasingly susceptible to various attacks. The situation is exacerba…

cs.NI2023

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…

eess.SP2023

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…

eess.SP2022

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…

cs.IT2022★ 1 cited

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…

cs.IT2022

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,…

eess.SP2022★ 5 cited

Underwater and Air-Water Wireless Communication: State-of-the-art, Channel Characteristics, Security, and Open Problems

Waqas Aman, Saif Al-Kuwari, Ambrish Kumar +2

We present a first detailed survey on underwater and air-water (A-W) wireless communication networks (WCNs) that mainly focuses on the security challenges and the countermeasures p…