7 papers
Securing Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) Communications for Wildfire Management: Mitigating the Effects of Adversarial and Environmental Threats
Nesrine Benchoubane, Olfa Ben Yahia, William Ferguson +4
In the face of adverse environmental conditions and cyber threats, robust communication systems for critical applications such as wildfire management and detection demand secure an…
Open Sky, Open Threats: Replay Attacks in Space Launch and Re-entry Phases
Nesrine Benchoubane, Eray Guven, Gunes Karabulut Kurt
This paper examines the effects of replay attacks on the integrity of both uplink and downlink communications during critical phases of spacecraft communication. By combining softw…
Towards Resilient SDA: Graph Theory and Cooperative Control in Distributed Network Architectures
Nesrine Benchoubane, Gunes Karabulut Kurt
Space Domain Awareness (SDA) involves the detection, tracking, and characterization of space objects through the fusion of data across the space environment. As SDA advances beyond…
Kise-Manitow's Hand in Space: Securing Communication and Connections in Space
Nesrine Benchoubane, Gunes Karabulut Kurt
The lunar Gateway is a complex system-of-systems (SoS) requiring secure, resilient integration of all its systems. This paper develops controls for its early systems to secure comm…
Next-Gen Space-Based Surveillance: Blockchain for Trusted and Efficient Debris Tracking
Nesrine Benchoubane, Nida Fidan, Gunes Karabulut Kurt +1
The increasing congestion of Earth's orbit due to growing satellite deployments and space debris poses a significant challenge to sustainable space operations. Traditional space su…
Privacy-Preserving and Simultaneous Authentication in High-Density V2X Networks
Morteza Azmoudeh Afshar, Nesrine Benchoubane, Busra Cayoren +2
The rapid expansion of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) networks within the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) demands secure and efficient authentication to support high-speed, high-density an…