Publications

Wi-Fi Technology

Wenhan Zhang, Meiyu Zhong, Ravi Tandon, and Marwan Krunz, "Filtered randomized smoothing: A new defense for robust modulation classification," to appear in the IEEE MILCOM Conference, 2024.
Amir Hossein Yazdani Abyaneh, Marwan Krunz, and Mohammed Hirzallah, "Countermeasuring aggressors via intelligent adaptation of contention window in CSMA/CA systems," IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 88216-88230, June 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3416232.
Zhengguang Zhang and Marwan Krunz, "Preamble forgery and injection in Wi-Fi networks: Attacks and defenses," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), March 2024.
Zhiwu Guo, Ming Li, and Marwan Krunz, "Exploitation of successive interference cancellation for spectrum sharing over unlicensed bands," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 23, issue 3, pp. 2438-2455, March 2024.
Zhengguang Zhang, Hanif Rahbari, and Marwan Krunz, "Adaptive preamble embedding with MIMO to support user-defined functionalities in WLANs," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 691-707, 1 Feb. 2023.
Zhengguang Zhang and Marwan Krunz, "SIGTAM: A tampering attack on Wi-Fi preamble signaling and countermeasures," Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Austin, Texas, Oct. 2022.
Zhengguang Zhang and Marwan Krunz, "Preamble injection and spoofing attacks in Wi-Fi networks," Proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM Conference, Madrid, Spain, Dec. 2021.
Amir Yazdani Abyaneh and Marwan Krunz, "CWmin estimation and collision identification in Wi-Fi systems," Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), Oct. 2021 (invited paper).
Zhengguang Zhang, Hanif Rahbari, and Marwan Krunz, "Expanding the role of preambles to support user-defined functionality in MIMO-based WLANs," Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2020, Online, July 2020, pp. 1191-1200 (acceptance rate 19.8%). [PRESENTATION]
M. Hirzallah, W. Afifi and M. Krunz, "Provisioning QoS in Wi-Fi systems with asymmetric full-duplex communications," IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 942-953, Dec. 2018.
Bushra Ismaiel, Mehran Abolhasan, Wei Ni, David Smith, Daniel Franklin, Eryk Dutkiewicz, Marwan Krunz, and Abbas Jamalipour, "PCF-based LTE Wi-Fi aggregation for coordinating and offloading the cellular traffic to D2D network," IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology (TVT), vol. 67, issue 12, pp. 12193--12203, Dec. 2018.
Mohammed Hirzallah, Wessam Afifi, and Marwan Krunz, "Joint mode and rate adaptation for asymmetric fullduplex communications in WLANs," Proc. of the IEEE ICC 2018 Conference, Kansas City, MO, 2018, pp. 1-7.
Hanif Rahbari, Peyman Siyari, Marwan Krunz, and Jerry Park, "Adaptive demodulation for wireless systems in the presence of frequency-offset estimation errors," Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2018 Conference, Honolulu, HI, 2018, pp. 1592-1600 (acceptance rate 19.2%).
Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz, "Exploiting frame preamble waveforms to support new physical-layer functions in OFDM-based 802.11 systems," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 3775-3786, June 2017.
Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz, "Full frame encryption and modulation obfuscation using channel-independent preamble identifier," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, vol. 11, issue 12, pp. 2732-2747, Dec. 2016.
Mohammed Hirzallah, Wessam Afifi, and Marwan Krunz, "Full-duplex spectrum sensing and fairness mechanisms for Wi-Fi/LTE-U coexistence," Proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2016 Conference, Washington D.C., Dec. 2016.
Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz, "Rolling preambles: Mitigating stealthy FO estimation attacks in OFDM-based 802.11 systems," Proc. of the IEEE CNS 2016 Conference, Philadelphia, Oct. 2016.
Wessam Afifi, Enrico-Henrik Rantala, Esa Tuomaala, Sayantan Choudhury, and Marwan Krunz, "Throughput-fairness tradeoff evaluation for next-generation WLANs with adaptive clear channel assessment," Proc. of the IEEE ICC 2016 Conference (Mobile and Wireless Networking Symposium), May 2016.
Mohammad J. Abdel-Rahman, Mohamed Abdel Raheem, Allen MacKenzie, Kleber Cardoso, and Marwan Krunz, "On the orchestration of robust virtual LTE-U networks from hybrid half/full-duplex Wi-Fi APs," Proc. of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) Conference (Track 2 - MAC and Cross-layer Design), Doha, Qatar, April 2016.
Mohammad Abdel Rahman, Harish Kumar Shankar, and Marwan Krunz, "Adaptive cross-layer protocol design for opportunistic WLANs over TVWS," Proc. of the IEEE DySPAN 2014 Conference, (Technology Track), pp. 519-530, McLean, VA, April 2014.