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Journal Papers

Full Frame Encryption and Modulation Obfuscation Using Channel-independent Preamble Identifier [pdf]

    Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS), 2016.

Secrecy beyond Encryption: Obfuscating Transmission Signatures in Wireless Communications [pdf]

    Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz
    IEEE Communications Magazine-Feature Topic on Wireless Physical Layer Security, 2015.

Swift Jamming Attack on Frequency Offset Estimation: The Achilles' Heel of OFDM Systems [pdf]

    Hanif Rahbari, Marwan Krunz, and Loukas Lazos
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2015.

Multicast Rendezvous in Fast-Varying DSA Networks [pdf]

    Mohammad J. Abdel-Rahman, Hanif Rahbari, and Marwan Krunz
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), July 2015.

Conference Papers

Rolling Preambles: Mitigating Stealthy FO Estimation Attacks in OFDM-based 802.11 Systems

    Hanif Rahbari and and Marwan Krunz
    IEEE Conf. Communications and Network Security (CNS '16), Philadelphia, PA, USA, October 2016.
    (Acceptance rate: 29% = 38/131)

Supporting PHY-layer Security in Multi-link Wireless Networks Using Friendly Jamming [pdf | ppt]

    Rashad Eletreby, Hanif Rahbari, and Marwan Krunz
    IEEE Global Communications Conf. (GLOBECOM '15), San Diego, CA, USA, December 2015.

Friendly CryptoJam: A Mechanism for Securing Physical-Layer Attributes [pdf | ppt]

    Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz
    Proc. 2014 ACM Conf. Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '14),
    Oxford, United Kingdom, July 2014.
    (Full paper, acceptance rate: 14.6% = 14/96)

Security Vulnerability and Countermeasures of Frequency Offset Correction in 802.11a Systems [pdf | ppt]

    Hanif Rahbari, Marwan Krunz, and Loukas Lazos
    Proc. 33rd IEEE Int. Conf. Computer Communications (INFOCOM '14),
    Toronto, Canada, April 2014.
    (Acceptance rate: 19.4% = 320/1645)

Fast and Secure Rendezvous Protocols for Mitigating Control Channel DoS Attacks [pdf]

    Mohammad J. Abdel Rahman, Hanif Rahbari, Marwan Krunz, and Philippe Nain
    Proc. 32nd IEEE Int. Conf. Computer Communications (INFOCOM '13) Mini-Conference,
    Turin, Italy, April 2013.
    (Acceptance rate: < 25%)

Adaptive Frequency Hopping Algorithms for Multicast Rendezvous in DSA Networks [pdf]

    Mohammad J. Abdel Rahman, Hanif Rahbari, and Marwan Krunz
    Proc. 6th IEEE Symp. Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN '12) Technical Track,
    Bellevue, WA, October 2012.
    (Acceptance rate: 25% = 35/140)

Poster Presentations

Leakage of communications signatures: Analysis of eavesdropping attacks and proactive countermeasures

    Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz
    NSF SaTC PI Meeting, Washington DC, Jan. 2015.

Energy-efficient Jamming Attacks on Channel and Frequency Offset Estimation in Wireless Systems [pdf]

    Hanif Rahbari and Marwan Krunz
    Broadband Wireless Access Applications Center (BWAC) poster abstract book, Blacksburg, VA, May 2014.

Anti-Jamming Frequency Hopping Techniques for Secure Multicast Communications

    Mohammad J. Abdel-Rahman, Hanif Rahbari, and Marwan Krunz
    5th ACM Conf. Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec' 12), Tucson, AZ, April 2012.