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most citedOn the Performance of Adaptive Packetized Wireless Communication Links under Jamming

26 citations · 88 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CR2026

FlyBlind: Cross-Slice Timeliness Attacks on UAV Situational Awareness over 5G

Wagner Comin Sonaglio, Ágney Lopes Roth Ferraz, Sidnei Barbieri +3

Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) operating over 5G Standalone (SA) networks use a shared User Plane for both command-and-control (C2) data and vide…

cs.NI2026

POLARIS: PHY-Aware Spectrum Steering for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing

Stavros Dimou, Guevara Noubir

Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) enables flexible activation of additional spectrum resources but leaves open a key runtime question: once new spectrum becomes available, which steer…

cs.CR2026

When Connectivity Is Not Enough: Cross-Layer Attacks on UAV C2 over 5G

Wagner Comin Sonaglio, Ágney Lopes Roth Ferraz, André Elias Melo +3

Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations increasingly use 5G standalone (SA) networks for command and control (C2) between the UAV and the groun…

cs.CR2026

AirCatch: Effectively tracing advanced tag-based trackers

Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Swadeep, Guevara Noubir +1

Tag-based tracking ecosystems help users locate lost items, but can be leveraged for unwanted tracking and stalking. Existing protocol-driven defenses and prior academic solutions…

cs.NI2025

ARGOS: Anomaly Recognition and Guarding through O-RAN Sensing

Stavros Dimou, Guevara Noubir

Rogue Base Station (RBS) attacks, particularly those exploiting downgrade vulnerabilities, remain a persistent threat as 5G Standalone (SA) deployments are still limited and User E…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Establishing Trust in the Beyond-5G Core Network using Trusted Execution Environments

Marinos Vomvas, Norbert Ludant, Guevara Noubir

The fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks starts a paradigm shift from the traditional monolithic system design to a Service Based Architecture, that fits modern performance r…

cs.CR2024★ 3 cited

Unprotected 4G/5G Control Procedures at Low Layers Considered Dangerous

Norbert Ludant, Marinos Vomvas, Guevara Noubir

Over the years, several security vulnerabilities in the 3GPP cellular systems have been demonstrated in the literature. Most studies focus on higher layers of the cellular radio st…

eess.SP2022★ 1 cited

An Efficient Radar Receiver for OFDM-based Joint Radar and Communication Systems

Mamady Delamou, Kawtar Zerhouni, Guevara Noubir +1

We propose in this work a radar detection system for orthogonal-frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission. We assume that the transmitting antenna Tx is colocated with a…

cs.NI2022

DEFORM: A Practical, Universal Deep Beamforming System

Hai N. Nguyen, Guevara Noubir

We introduce, design, and evaluate a set of universal receiver beamforming techniques. Our approach and system DEFORM, a Deep Learning (DL) based RX beamforming achieves significan…

cs.NI2022★ 4 cited

Towards an AI-Driven Universal Anti-Jamming Solution with Convolutional Interference Cancellation Network

Hai N. Nguyen, Guevara Noubir

Wireless links are increasingly used to deliver critical services, while intentional interference (jamming) remains a very serious threat to such services. In this paper, we are co…

cs.NI2021★ 7 cited

Spectro-Temporal RF Identification using Deep Learning

Hai N. Nguyen, Marinos Vomvas, Triet Vo-Huu +1

RF emissions detection, classification, and spectro-temporal localization are crucial not only for tasks relating to understanding, managing, and protecting the RF spectrum, but al…

cs.CR2020

Spectrum-Flexible Secure Broadcast Ranging

Tien D. Vo-Huu, Triet D. Vo-Huu, Guevara Noubir

Secure ranging is poised to play a critical role in several emerging applications such as self-driving cars, unmanned aerial systems, wireless IoT devices, and augmented reality. I…

cs.CR2019★ 1 cited

A Privacy-Preserving Longevity Study of Tor's Hidden Services

Amirali Sanatinia, Jeman Park, Erik-Oliver Blass +2

Tor and hidden services have emerged as a practical solution to protect user privacy against tracking and censorship. At the same time, little is known about the lifetime and natur…

cs.CR2018

Mitigating Location Privacy Attacks on Mobile Devices using Dynamic App Sandboxing

Sashank Narain, Guevara Noubir

We present the design, implementation and evaluation of a system, called MATRIX, developed to protect the privacy of mobile device users from location inference and sensor side-cha…

cs.CR2018

Security of GPS/INS based On-road Location Tracking Systems

Sashank Narain, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Guevara Noubir

Location information is critical to a wide-variety of navigation and tracking applications. Today, GPS is the de-facto outdoor localization system but has been shown to be vulnerab…

cs.CR2016★ 1 cited

Honey Onions: a Framework for Characterizing and Identifying Misbehaving Tor HSDirs

Amirali Sanatinia, Guevara Noubir

In the last decade, Tor proved to be a very successful and widely popular system to protect users' anonymity. However, Tor remains a practical system with a variety of limitations,…

cs.NI2016

Cascading Denial of Service Attacks on Wi-Fi Networks

Liangxiao Xin, David Starobinski, Guevara Noubir

We unveil the existence of a vulnerability in Wi-Fi, which allows an adversary to remotely launch a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack that propagates both in time and space. This vuln…

cs.PL2016★ 6 cited

On GitHub's Programming Languages

Amirali Sanatinia, Guevara Noubir

GitHub is the most widely used social, distributed version control system. It has around 10 million registered users and hosts over 16 million public repositories. Its user base is…

cs.IT2015★ 25 cited

Constrained Bimatrix Games in Wireless Communications

Koorosh Firouzbakht, Guevara Noubir, Masoud Salehi

We develop a constrained bimatrix game framework that can be used to model many practical problems in many disciplines, including jamming in packetized wireless networks. In contra…

cs.CR2015★ 2 cited

OnionBots: Subverting Privacy Infrastructure for Cyber Attacks

Amirali Sanatinia, Guevara Noubir

Over the last decade botnets survived by adopting a sequence of increasingly sophisticated strategies to evade detection and take overs, and to monetize their infrastructure. At th…

cs.CR2014★ 3 cited

CBM: A Crypto-Coded Modulation Scheme for Rate Information Concealing and Robustness Boosting

Triet D. Vo-Huu, Guevara Noubir

Exposing the rate information of wireless transmission enables highly efficient attacks that can severely degrade the performance of a network at very low cost. In this paper, we i…

cs.IT2013★ 26 cited

On the Performance of Adaptive Packetized Wireless Communication Links under Jamming

Koorosh Firouzbakht, Guevara Noubir, Masoud Salehi

We employ a game theoretic approach to formulate communication between two nodes over a wireless link in the presence of an adversary. We define a constrained, two-player, zero-sum…

cs.NI2013★ 1 cited

BaPu: Efficient and Practical Bunching of Access Point Uplinks

Tao Jin, Triet Vo-Huu, Erik-Oliver Blass +1

Today's increasing demand for wirelessly uploading a large volume of User Generated Content (UGC) is still significantly limited by the throttled backhaul of residential broadband…

cs.IT2012

On the Capacity of Rate-Adaptive Packetized Wireless Communication Links under Jamming

Koorosh Firouzbakht, Guevara Noubir, Masoud Salehi

We formulate the interaction between the communicating nodes and an adversary within a game-theoretic context. We show that earlier information-theoretic capacity results for a jam…