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Frame Preamble, Modulation, and Transmission Obfuscation

• Deep Learning Models As Moving Targets To Counter Modulation Classification Attacks
     Naureen Hoque and Hanif Rahbari
     IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2024), Vancouver, Canada, May 2024.


• Circumventing the Defense against Modulation Classification Attacks
     Naureen Hoque and Hanif Rahbari
     ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless & Mobile Networks (WiSec 2023), Surrey, UK, May 2023.


• Adaptive Preamble Embedding with MIMO to Support User-defined Functionalities in WLANs
     Zhengguang Zhang, Hanif Rahbari, and Marwan Krunz
     IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), February 2023.


• A Method for Exploiting Preamble Waveforms to Support Device and Network Functionalities in Wireless Systems, [Text]
     Marwan Krunz and Hanif Rahbari
     U.S. Patent No. 11,038,730 (granted June 15, 2021)


• Expanding the Role of Preambles to Support User-defined Functionality in MIMO-based WLANs
     Zhengguang Zhang, Hanif Rahbari, and Marwan Krunz
     39th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2020), Virtual Conference, July 2020 (acceptance rate: 268/1354=19.8%)


• Lightweight Machine Learning for Efficient Frequency-Offset-Aware Demodulation [link | pdf]
     Hanif Rahbari, Peyman Siyari, and Marwan Krunz
     IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)-Machine Learning in Wireless Communications, November 2019.


• Adaptive Demodulation for Wireless Systems in the Presence of Frequency-Offset Estimation Errors [pdf | slides]
     Hanif Rahbari, Peyman Siyari, Marwan Krunz, and Jerry Park
     37th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2018), April 2018 (acceptance rate: 19.2%)


• Exploiting Frame Preamble Waveforms to Support New Physical-Layer Functions in OFDM-Based 802.11 Systems [link]
     Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz
     IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), June 2017


• Full Frame Encryption and Modulation Obfuscation Using Channel-independent Preamble Identifier [link]
     Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz
     IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS), December 2016


• Secrecy beyond Encryption: Obfuscating Transmission Signatures in Wireless Communications [link]
     Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz
     IEEE Communications Magazine, December 2015
  


• Friendly CryptoJam: A Mechanism for Securing Physical-Layer Attributes [link | slides]
     Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz
     ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless & Mobile Networks (WiSec 14), July 2014 (acceptance rate: 14.6%)
  

Connected Vehicles Security

• When Cryptography Needs a Hand: Practical Post-Quantum Authentication for V2V Communications
     Geoff Twardokus, Nina Bindel, Hanif Rahbari, and Sarah McCarthy
     Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2024), February 2024.
  


• Towards Protecting 5G Sidelink Scheduling in C-V2X Against Intelligent DoS Attacks
     Geoff Twardokus and Hanif Rahbari
     IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), vol. 22, no. 11, November 2023.
  


• Non-cooperative Learning for Robust Spectrum Sharing in Connected Vehicles with Malicious Agents
     Haoran Peng, Hanif Rahbari, Jay Yang, and Li-Chun Wang
     IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2022), December 2022
  


• Vehicle-to-Nothing? Securing C-V2X Against Protocol-Aware DoS Attacks
     Geoff Twardokus and Hanif Rahbari
     IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2022), May 2022
  


• Message Sieving to Mitigate Smart Gridlock Attacks in V2V [pdf]
     Siddharth Dongre and Hanif Rahbari
     ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless & Mobile Networks (WiSec 2021), July 2021
  


• Targeted Discreditation Attack against Trust Management in Connected Vehicles [pdf]
     Geoff Twardokus, Jaime Ponicki, Samantha Baker, Peter Carenzo, Hanif Rahbari, and Sumita Mishra
     IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 21), June 2021
  


• Evaluating V2V Security on an SDR Testbed [pdf]
     Geoff Twardokus and Hanif Rahbari
     IEEE International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT) in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2021 (CNERT 21), Virtual Conference, May 2021

Jamming, Anti-Jamming, and Frienly Jamming

• Countering Relay and Spoofing Attacks in the Connection Establishment Phase of Wi-Fi Systems
     Naureen Hoque and Hanif Rahbari
     ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless & Mobile Networks (WiSec 2023), Surrey, UK, May 2023.


• Systematically Analyzing Vulnerabilities in the Connection Establishment Phase of Wi-Fi Systems
     Geoff Naureen Hoque, Hanif Rahbari, and Cullen Rezendes
     10th IEEE Conference Communications and Network Security (CNS 2022), October 2022 (acceptance rate: 38%)
  


• Targeted Discreditation Attack against Trust Management in Connected Vehicles [pdf]
     Geoff Twardokus, Jaime Ponicki, Samantha Baker, Peter Carenzo, Hanif Rahbari, and Sumita Mishra
     IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 21), June 2021
  


• Systems and Methods for Securing Wireless Communications [Text]
     Marwan Krunz, Berk Akgun, Peyman Siyari, Hanif Rahbari, Rashad Eletreby, and Ozan Koyluoglu
     U.S. Patent App. 16/012,620 (granted Oct. 8, 2019)


• Systems and Methods for Securing Wireless Communications [Text]
     Marwan Krunz, Berk Akgun, Peyman Siyari, Hanif Rahbari, Rashad Eletreby, and Ozan Koyluoglu
     U.S. Patent App. 15/336,070 (granted Sep. 4, 2018)


• Rolling Preambles: Mitigating Stealthy FO Estimation Attacks in OFDM-based 802.11 Systems [pdf]
     Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz
     4th IEEE Conference Communications and Network Security (CNS 2016), October 2016 (acceptance rate: 29%)


• Swift Jamming Attack on Frequency Offset Estimation: The Achilles' Heel of OFDM Systems [link]
     Hanif Rahbari, Marwan Krunz, and Loukas Lazos
     IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), May 2016


• Supporting PHY-layer Security in Multi-link Wireless Networks Using Friendly Jamming [link | slides]
     Rashad Eletreby, Hanif Rahbari, and Marwan Krunz
     34th IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015), December 2015 (acceptance rate: 36.6%)


• Security Vulnerability and Countermeasures of Frequency Offset Correction in 802.11a Systems [pdf | slides]
     Hanif Rahbari, Marwan Krunz, and Loukas Lazos
     33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2014), April 2014 (acceptance rate: 19.4%)


• Fast and Secure Rendezvous Protocols for Mitigating Control Channel DoS Attacks [link]
     Mohammad J. Abdel Rahman, Hanif Rahbari, Marwan Krunz, and Philippe Nain
     32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2013) Mini-Conference, (acceptance rate: < 25%)

Spectrum Access

• FLow-latency RFI Nulling and Multi-user Scaling for 5G and Radio Astronomy Coexistence [link]
     Siddharth Dongre, Tiep M. Hoang, Hanif Rahbari, and Alireza Vahid
     IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), January 2025
  


• Fair and Secure 5G and Wi-Fi Coexistence Using Robust Implicit Channel Coordination [link]
     Siddharth Dongre and Hanif Rahbari
     IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), July 2024
  


• Implicit Channel Coordination to Tackle Starvation Attacks in 5G and Wi-Fi Coexistence Systems [link]
     Siddharth Dongre and Hanif Rahbari
     IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2022), December 2022
  


• Multicast Rendezvous in Fast-Varying DSA Networks [link]
     Mohammad J. Abdel-Rahman, Hanif Rahbari, and Marwan Krunz
     IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), July 2015


• Adaptive Frequency Hopping Algorithms for Multicast Rendezvous in DSA Networks [link]
     Mohammad J. Abdel Rahman, Hanif Rahbari, and Marwan Krunz
     Proc. 6th IEEE Symp. Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2012) Technical Track, (acceptance rate: 25%)

Internet-of-Things (IoT) Security

• SecureMatch: Scalable Authentication and Key Relegation for IoT Using Physical-Layer Techniques [pdf]
     Hanif Rahbari, Jinshan Liu, and Jerry Park
     6th IEEE Conference Communications and Network Security (CNS 2018), May 2018 (acceptance rate: 28.2%)