2023 Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS 2023) Conference BeamSec: A Practical mmWave Physical Layer Security Scheme Against Strong Adversaries Afifa Ishtiaq Arash Asadi Ladan Khaloopour Waqar Ahmed Vahid Jamali Matthias Hollick BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/CNS59707.2023.10289003 Abstract The high directionality of millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems has proven effective in reducing the attack surface against eavesdropping, thus improving the physical layer security. However, even with highly directional beams, the system is still exposed to eavesdropping against adversaries located within the main lobe. In this paper, we propose BeamSec, a solution to protect the users even from adversaries located in the main lobe. The key feature of BeamSec are: (i) Operating without the knowledge of eavesdropper’s location/channel; (ii) Robustness against colluding eavesdropping attack and (iii) Standard compatibility, which we prove using experiments via our IEEE 802.11ad/ay-compatible 60 GHz phased-array testbed. Methodologically, BeamSec first identifies uncorrelated and diverse beampairs between the transmitter and receiver by analyzing signal characteristics available through standard-compliant procedures. Next, it encodes the information jointly over all selected beampairs to minimize information leakage. We study two methods for allocating transmission time among different beams, namely uniform allocation (no knowledge of the wireless channel) and optimal allocation for maximization of the secrecy rate (with partial knowledge of the wireless channel). Our experiments show that BeamSec outperforms the benchmark schemes against single and colluding eavesdroppers and enhances the secrecy rate by 79.8% over a random paths selection benchmark.
2020 Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems Article Stay Connected, Leave no Trace: Enhancing Security and Privacy in WiFi via Obfuscating Radiometric Fingerprints Luis F. Abanto-Leon Andreas Bäuml Gek Hong Sim Matthias Hollick Arash Asadi PDF BibTeX DOI: 10.1145/3428329
2020 IEEE Internet of Things Journal Article LIDOR: A Lightweight DoS-Resilient Communication Protocol for Safety-Critical IoT Systems Milan Stute Pranay Agarwal Abhinav Kumar Arash Asadi Matthias Hollick PDF BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.2985044
2019 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Article SCAROS: A Scalable and Robust Self-backhauling Solution for Highly Dynamic Millimeter-Wave Networks Andrea Patricia Ortiz Jimenez Arash Asadi Gek Hong Sim Daniel Steinmetzer Matthias Hollick BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2019.2947925
2019 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Article CBMoS: Combinatorial Bandit Learning for Mode Selection and Resource Allocation in D2D Systems Andrea Patricia Ortiz Jimenez Arash Asadi Max Engelhardt Matthias Hollick Anja Klein BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2019.2933764
2018 IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Article An Online Context-Aware Machine Learning Algorithm for 5G mmWave Vehicular Communications Gek Hong Sim Sabrina Klos Arash Asadi Anja Klein Matthias Hollick BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2018.2869244
2018 37th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Conference FML: Fast Machine Learning for 5G mmWave Vehicular Communications Arash Asadi Gek Hong Sim Matthias Hollick Anja Klein Sabrina Müller BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2018.8485876
2017 IEEE Wireless Communications Article 5G Millimeter-Wave and D2D Symbiosis: 60 GHz for Proximity-based Services Gek Hong Sim Adrian Loch Arash Asadi Vincenzo Mancuso Jörg Widmer BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2017.1600098
2017 IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Article DORE: An Experimental Framework to Enable Outband D2D Relay in Cellular Networks Arash Asadi Vincenzo Mancuso Rohit Gupta BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2017.2712285
2017 9th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS) Conference mm-Wave on Wheels: Practical 60 GHz Vehicular Communication Without Beam Training Adrian Loch Arash Asadi Gek Hong Sim Jörg Widmer Matthias Hollick BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/COMSNETS.2017.7945351
2017 16th International IFIP TC6 Networking Conference Conference SEMUD: Secure Multi-hop Device-to-Device Communication for 5G Public Safety Networks Milan Schmittner Arash Asadi Matthias Hollick BibTeX DOI: 10.23919/IFIPNetworking.2017.8264846
2017 9th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks Conference mm-Broker: Managing Directionality and Mobility Issues of Millimeter-Wave via D2D Communication Gek Hong Sim Arash Asadi Adrian Loch Matthias Hollick Jörg Widmer BibTeX
2016 IEEE Transactions on mobile computing Article Network-assisted Outband D2D-clustering in 5G Cellular Networks: Theory and Practice Arash Asadi Vincenzo Mancuso BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2016.2621041
2016 35th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications Conference An SDR-based Experimental Study of Outband D2D Communications Arash Asadi Vincenzo Mancuso Rohit Gupta BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2016.7524372
2016 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks Conference Tie-breaking Can Maximize Fairness without Sacrificing Throughput in D2D-assisted Networks Vincenzo Mancuso Arash Asadi Peter Jacko BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523498
2014 ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Article Modeling D2D communications with LTE and WiFi Arash Asadi Peter Jacko Vincenzo Mancuso BibTeX DOI: 10.1145/2667522.2667540
2014 Computer Communications Article DRONEE: Dual-radio opportunistic networking for energy efficiency Arash Asadi Vincenzo Mancuso BibTeX DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2014.02.014
2014 IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials Article A Survey on Device-to-Device Communication in Cellular Networks Arash Asadi Wang Qing Vincenzo Mancuso BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2014.2319555
2013 IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials Article A Survey on Opportunistic Scheduling in Wireless Communications Arash Asadi Vincenzo Mancuso BibTeX DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2013.011413.00082