Publications

Wireless Security

Wenhan Zhang, Meiyu Zhong, Ravi Tandon, and Marwan Krunz, "Filtered randomized smoothing: A new defense for robust modulation classification," accepted to appear in the IEEE MILCOM Conference, 2024.
Zhengguang Zhang and Marwan Krunz, "Preamble forgery and injection in Wi-Fi networks: Attacks and defenses," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), March 2024.
Marwan Krunz and Peyman Siyari, "Secure linear precoding in overloaded MU-MIMO wireless networks," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 71, no. 7, pp. 4050-4061, July 2023.
Islam Shaban, Xiao Han, Loukas Lazos, Ming Li, Yong Xiao, and Marwan Krunz, "Misbehavior detection in Wi-Fi/LTE coexistence over unlicensed bands," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 4773--4791, Aug. 2023.
Manjesh K. Hanawal, Diep N. Nguyen, and Marwan Krunz, "Cognitive networks with in-band full-duplex radios: Jamming attacks and countermeasures," IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 296-309, March 2020.
Berk Akgun, Marwan Krunz, and Ozan Koyluoglu, "Vulnerabilities of massive MIMO systems to pilot contamination attacks," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 1251-1263, May 2019.
Peyman Siyari, Marwan Krunz, and Diep Nguyen, "Distributed power control in single-stream MIMO wiretap interference networks with full-duplex jamming receivers," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 594-608, Feb. 2019.
Peyman Siyari, Marwan Krunz, and Diep Nguyen, "Power games for secure communications in single-stream MIMO interference networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 5759-5773, Sept. 2018.
Peyman Siyari, Marwan Krunz, and Diep Nguyen, "Friendly jamming in a MIMO wiretap interference network: A non-convex game approach," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 601-614, March 2017.
Alejandro Proano, Loukas Lazos, and Marwan Krunz, "Traffic decorrelation techniques for countering colluding eavesdroppers in WSNs," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 16, issue 3, pp. 857-871, March 2017.
Berk Akgun, O. Ozan Koyluoglu, and Marwan Krunz, "Exploiting full-duplex receivers for achieving secret communications in multiuser MISO networks," IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM), vol. 65, issue 2, pp. 956-968, Feb. 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.
Manjesh Hanawal, Mohammad Abdel Rahman, and Marwan Krunz, "Joint adaptation of frequency hopping and transmission rate for anti-jamming wireless systems," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 15, issue 9, pp. 2247-2259, Sept. 2016.
Hanif Rahbari, Marwan Krunz, and Loukas Lazos, "Swift jamming attack on frequency offset estimation: The Achilles' heel of OFDM systems," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 15, issue 5, pp. 1264-1278, May 2016.
Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz, "Secrecy beyond encryption: Obfuscating transmission signatures in wireless communications," IEEE Communications Magazine -Feature Topic on Wireless Physical Layer Security, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 54-60, December 2015.
Sisi Liu, Loukas Lazos, and Marwan Krunz, "Time-delayed broadcasting for defeating inside jammers," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 12, issue 3, pp. 351-365, May 2015.
Tao Shu and Marwan Krunz, "Privacy-preserving and truthful detection of packet dropping attacks in wireless ad hoc networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 14, issue 4, pp. 813-828, April 2015.
Sisi Liu, Loukas Lazos, and Marwan Krunz, "Thwarting control-channel jamming attacks from inside jammers," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1545-1558, Sep. 2012.
Loukas Lazos and Marwan Krunz, "Selective jamming/dropping insider attacks in wireless mesh networks," IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 25, issue 1, pp. 30-34, Jan. 2011.
Tao Shu, Marwan Krunz, and Sisi Liu, "Secure data collection in wireless sensor networks using randomized dispersive routes," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 941-954, July 2010.
Zhengguang Zhang and Marwan Krunz, "Detection and classification of smart jamming in Wi-Fi networks using machine learning," Proc. of the IEEE MILCOM Conference (TRACK 5 - Machine Learning for Communications and Networking), Oct. 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.
Marwan Krunz and Wenhan Zhang, "Application of adversarial machine learning in protocol and modulation misclassification," Proc. of the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications Conference (part of SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing Symposium), April 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), Aug. 2021 (invited paper).
Peyman Siyari, Marwan Krunz, "Linear precoding with friendly jamming in overloaded MU-MIMO wiretap networks," Proc. of the IEEE CNS 2019 Conference - Workshop on Physical-layer Methods for Security and Privacy in 5G and the IoT, Washington, DC, Jun. 2019.
Berk Akgun, Marwan Krunz, and O. Ozan Koyluoglu, "Pilot contamination attacks in massive MIMO systems," Proc. of the IEEE CNS 2017 Conference, Las Vegas, Oct. 2017.
Peyman Siyari, Marwan Krunz, and Diep Nguyen, "Joint transmitter- and receiver-based friendly jamming in a MIMO wiretap interference network," Proc. of the IEEE ICC 2017 Conference - Workshop on Full-Duplex Communications for Future Wireless Networks, Paris, France, May 2017, pp. 1323-1328.
Peyman Siyari, Marwan Krunz, and Diep Nguyen, "A game theoretic design of artificial-noise aided transmissions in MIMO wiretap interference network," Proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2016 Conference, Washington, DC, Dec. 2016, pp. 1-6.
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.
Manjesh Hanawal, Diep Nguyen, and Marwan Krunz, "Jamming attack on in-band full-duplex communications: Detection and countermeasures," Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM'16 Conference, San Francisco, April 2016 (acceptance rate 18.25%).
Peyman Siyari, Diep Nguyen, and Marwan Krunz, "Price-based friendly jamming in a MISO interference wiretap channel," Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2016 Conference, San Francisco, CA, Apr. 2016, pp. 1-9 (acceptance rate 18.25%).
Berk Akgun, O. Ozan Koyluoglu, and Marwan Krunz, "Receiver-based friendly jamming with single-antenna full-duplex receivers in a multiuser broadcast channel," Proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Conference, San Diego, Dec. 2015.
Rashad Eletreby, Hanif Rahbari, and Marwan Krunz, "Supporting PHY-layer security in multilink wireless networks using friendly jamming," Proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM'15 Conference, San Diego, Dec. 2015.
Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz, "Friendly CryptoJam: A mechanism for securing physical-layer attributes," Proc. of the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec 2014), Oxford, UK, July 2014 (long paper; acceptance rate 15%).
Hanif Rahbari, Marwan Krunz, and Loukas Lazos, "Security vulnerability and countermeasures of frequency offset correction in 802.11a systems," Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2014 Conference, 1015-1023, Toronto, April 2014 (acceptance rate 19.4%).
Manjesh Hanawal, Mohammad Abdel Rahman, and Marwan Krunz, "Game theoretic anti-jamming dynamic frequency hopping and rate adaptation in wireless systems," Proc. of WiOpt 2014 Conference, pp. 247-254, Hammamet, Tunisia, May 2014.
Mohammad Abdel Rahman and Marwan Krunz, "Game-theoretic quorum-based frequency hopping for anti-jamming rendezvous in DSA networks," Proc. of the IEEE DySPAN 2014 Conference, (Technology Track), pp. 248-258, McLean, VA, April 2014.
Mohammad Abdel Rahman, Hanif Rahbari, Marwan Krunz, and Philippe Nain, "Fast and secure rendezvous protocols for mitigating control channel DoS attacks," Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2013 Mini-Conference, Turin, Italy, April 2013.
Tao Shu and Marwan Krunz, "Detection of malicious packet dropping in wireless ad hoc networks based on privacy-preserving public auditing," Proc. of the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec 2012), pp. 87-98, Tucson, Arizona, April 2012.
Sisi Liu, Loukas Lazos, and Marwan Krunz, "Thwarting inside jamming attacks on wireless broadcast communications," Proc. of the ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec'11), Hamburg, Germany, June 15-17, 2011 (full paper; acceptance rate ~ 10%).
Tao Shu, Sisi Liu, and Marwan Krunz, "Secure data collection in wireless sensor networks using randomized dispersive routes," Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2009 Mini-Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.
Loukas Lazos, Sisi Liu, and Marwan Krunz, "Mitigating control-channel jamming attacks in multi-channel ad hoc networks," Proc. of the ACM WiSec 2009 Conference (full paper), March 2009 (acceptance rate 13%).