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20152026
most citedAttacking at non-harmonic frequencies in screaming-channel attacks

6 citations · 12 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

eess.SP2026

A Transformer for Joint Multi-Receiver Pilotless Wi-Fi Decoding

Xavier Tardy, Grégoire Lefebvre, Apostolos Kountouris +2

In this paper we discuss the development of a fully pilotless multi-access-point Wi-Fi receiver. This is based on a self-attention Transformer that operates on per-(access point, s…

eess.SP2026

Phase Uniformity Detector for GRSMReceivers in mmWave and Sub-THz Bands

Oshin Daoud, Haifa Fares, Yahia Medjahdi +2

This paper introduces a phase-domain statistical detector, the Phase Uniformity Detector (PUD), for binary hypothesis testing in Generalized Receive Spatial Modulation (GRSM) syste…

eess.SP2026

Exploiting Spatial Modulation for Strong PhaseNoise Mitigation in mmWave Massive MIMO

Oshin Daoud, Haifa Fares, Amor Nafkha +2

This letter investigates phase noise (PN) mitigation in generalized receiver spatial modulation (GRSM) massive MIMO systems at mmWave under a common local oscillator (CLO). Under C…

eess.SP2026

Scalable Cross-Attention Transformer for Cooperative Multi-AP OFDM Uplink Reception

Xavier Tardy, Grégoire Lefebvre, Apostolos Kountouris +2

We propose a cross-attention Transformer for joint decoding of uplink OFDM signals received by multiple coordinated access points. A shared per-receiver encoder learns the time-fre…

cs.CR2025

Multi-Screaming-Channel Attacks: Frequency Diversity for Enhanced Attacks

Jeremy Guillaume, Maxime Pelcat, Amor Nafkha +1

Side-channel attacks consist of retrieving internal data from a victim system by analyzing its leakage, which usually requires proximity to the victim in the range of a few millime…

eess.SP2025

Federated Learning for Secure and Efficient Device Activity Detection in mMTC Networks

Ali Elkeshawy, Ibrahim Al Ghosh, Haifa Fares +1

Grant-free random access in massive machine-type communications enables low-latency connectivity with minimal signaling. However, sporadic device activation requires efficient devi…

eess.SP2025

Robust Learning-Based Sparse Recovery for Device Activity Detection in Grant-Free Random Access Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Enhancing Resilience to Impairments

Ali Elkeshawy, Haifa Fares, Amor Nafkha

Massive MIMO is considered a key enabler to support massive machine-type communication (mMTC). While massive access schemes have been extensively analyzed for co-located massive MI…

eess.SP2025

Lightweight Learning for Grant-Free Activity Detection in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks

Ali Elkeshawy, Haifa Fares, Amor Nafkha

Grant-free random access (GF-RA) is a promising access technique for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in future wireless networks, particularly in the context of 5G and b…

cs.LG2024

Deep Learning-Based Approach for User Activity Detection with Grant-Free Random Access in Cell-Free Massive MIMO

Ali Elkeshawy, HaÏfa Farès, Amor Nafkha

Modern wireless networks must reliably support a wide array of connectivity demands, encompassing various user needs across diverse scenarios. Machine-Type Communication (mMTC) is…

cs.CR2023★ 6 cited

Attacking at non-harmonic frequencies in screaming-channel attacks

Jeremy Guillaume, Maxime Pelcat, Amor Nafkha +1

Screaming-channel attacks enable Electromagnetic (EM) Side-Channel Attacks (SCAs) at larger distances due to higher EM leakage energies than traditional SCAs, relaxing the requirem…

cs.CR2022

Virtual Triggering: a Technique to Segment Cryptographic Processes in Side Channel Traces

Jeremy Guillaume, Maxime Pelcat, Amor Nafkha +1

Side-Channel Attacks (SCAs) exploit data correla-tion in signals leaked from devices to jeopardize confidentiality. Locating and synchronizing segments of interest in traces from C…

cs.IT2017★ 6 cited

Upper and Lower Bounds for the Ergodic Capacity of MIMO Jacobi Fading Channels

Amor Nafkha, Remi Bonnefoi

In multi-(core/mode) optical fiber communication, the transmission channel can be modeled as a complex sub-matrix of the Haar-distributed unitary matrix (complex Jacobi unitary ens…

cs.AR2017

Accurate Measurement of Power Consumption Overhead During FPGA Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration

Amor Nafkha, Yves Louet

In the context of embedded systems design, two important challenges are still under investigation. First, improve real-time data processing, reconfigurability, scalability, and sel…

cs.IT2017

New Lower Bound on the Ergodic Capacity of Optical MIMO Channels

Rémi Bonnefoi, Amor Nafkha

In this paper, we present an analytical lower bound on the ergodic capacity of optical multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. It turns out that the optical MIMO channel ma…

cs.IT2015

Closed-Form Expressions of Ergodic Capacity and MMSE Achievable Sum Rate for MIMO Jacobi and Rayleigh Fading Channels

Amor Nafkha, Nizar Demni

Multimode/multicore fibers are expected to provide an attractive solution to overcome the capacity limit of the current optical communication system. In the presence of high cross-…