Congratulations to Wenhan Zhang on defending his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “Secure Machine Learning Based RF Signal Classification for Wireless Systems” (March 27, 2024) (Photo).
Our paper “Secure linear precoding in overloaded MU-MIMO wireless networks,” was accepted for IEEE TCOM.
Our paper “Online reinforcement learning for beam tracking and rate adaptation in millimeter-wave systems,” was accepted for IEEE TMC.
Our paper “Distributed traffic synthesis and classification in edge networks: Federated self- supervised learning approach,” was accepted for IEEE TMC.
Our paper “Time-sensitive learning for heterogeneous federated edge intelligence,” was accepted for IEEE TMC.
2022
Our paper “Dynamic spectrum access in non-stationary environments: A DRL-LSTM integrated approach,” was accepted for IEEE ICNC.
Our paper “SIGTAM: A tampering attack on Wi-Fi preamble signaling and countermeasures,” was accepted forIEEE CNS.
This summer, several members of our group were hired as interns by high-tech companies: Zhengguang Zhang (Qualcomm), Wenhan Zhang (Intel), Zhiwu Guo (NXP), Sopan Sarkar (Keysight), and Amir Yazdani (DOCOMO).
Dr. Krunz is invited as a keynote speaker at ICCSPA 2022 to give a talk on "Machine Learning for Signal and Protocol Classification over Shared Spectrum". Click here for CFP.
Our paper “Adaptive Preamble Embedding with MIMO to Support User-defined Functionalities in WLANs,” was accepted for IEEE TMC.
Our paper “Joint task partitioning and user association for latency minimization in mobile edge computing networks,” was accepted for IEEE TVT.
Our paper “Sense-Bandits: AI-based adaptation of sensing thresholds for heterogeneous-technology coexistence over unlicensed bands,” was invited by IEEE ICCCN 2021.
Our paper “Beamwidth optimization for initial access in 5G NR millimeter wave cellular networks,” was accepted for the IEEE ICC 2021 - Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, June 2021.
Our paper “Task partitioning and user association for latency minimization in mobile edge computing networks,” was accepted for the ICCN Workshop in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2021.
Our paper “Signal detection and classification in shared spectrum: A deep learning approach” was accepted for the IEEE INFOCOM 2021.
2020
WiCON has joined the mmWave Coalition representing University of Arizona. We will join other universities and companies in the effort to develop a favorable regulatory environment for systems employing terahertz radiation.
Our paper “5G New Radio Unlicensed: Challenges and evaluation” was accepted for IEEE TCCN.
Our paper “Latency Prediction for Delay-sensitive V2X Applications in Mobile Cloud/Edge Computing Systems“ was accepted for IEEE GLOBECOM 2020.
Congratulations to Mohammed on succesfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation (May 2020). He will be joining Qualcomm in San Diego.
Congratulations to Irmak on succesfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation (March 2020) (Photo). She has joined Qualcomm in San Diego.
Our paper "Efficient Beam Sweeping Algorithms and Initial Access Protocols for Millimeter-Wave Networks" was accepted for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
Our paper "MAMBA: A Multi-armed Bandit Framework for Beam Tracking in Millimeter-wave Systems" was accepted for the IEEE INFOCOM 2020.
Our paper "Expanding the Role of Preambles to Support User-defined Functionality in MIMO-based WLANs" was accepted for the IEEE INFOCOM 2020.
2019
Congratulations to Berk on succesfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation (Dec. 2019). He has joined Qualcomm in San Diego.
Dr. Krunz discusses the challenges and opportunities of 5G at a TLA panel. Click here for more details.
Our paper "Multi-beam transmissions for blockage resilience and reliability in millimeter-wave systems" was accepted for IEEE JSAC - Special Issue on Millimeter-wave Networking.
Our paper "Deep learning based identification of wireless protocols in the PHY layer" was accepted for the IEEE CNC Workshop 2020.
Our paper "Impact of beamforming on delay spread in wideband millimeter-wave systems" was accepted for the IEEE ICNC 2020 Conference.
Our paper "Intelligent tracking of network dynamics in cross-technology coexistence over unlicensed bands" was accepted for the IEEE ICNC 2020 Conference.
Congratulations to Amir and Mohammed on the acceptance of a DySPAN 2019 paper
Congratulations to Mohammed on the acceptance of his TCCN paper
Congratulations to Peyman on earning his Ph.D (Apr. 2019). He will be joining Qualcomm in San Jose.
Three papers by our group members and collaborators have been accepted for the IEEE SECON 2019 Conference, Boston, June 2019.
Check out this article about our recent work on 5G.
2018
Congratulations to Berk and Irmak on the acceptance of their paper "Smartlink: Exploiting Channel Clustering Effects for Reliable Millimeter Wave Communications" for the IEEE INFOCOM.
Congratulations to Peyman on the acceptance of his paper "Distributed power control in single-stream MIMO wiretap interference networks with full-duplex jamming receivers" for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
Congratulations to Peyman for winning the best poster award in BWAC Fall 2018 Meeting.
Congratulations to Irmak and Dr. Krunz on receiving the best paper award in 2018 ACM MSWiM Conference.
Congratulations to Berk on the acceptance of his paper "Vulnerabilities of Massive MIMO Systems to Pilot Contamination Attacks" for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
Congratulations to Yong and Mohammed on the acceptance of their paper "Distributed Resource Allocation for Network Slicing over Licensed and Unlicensed Bands" for the IEEE JSAC.
Congratulations to Yong on the acceptance of his paper "Distributed Optimization for Energy-efficient Fog Computing in the Tactile Internet" for the IEEE JSAC.
Congratulations to Yong on the acceptance of his paper "Dynamic Network Slicing for Scalable Fog Computing Systems with Energy Harvesting" for the IEEE JSAC.
Congratulations to Irmak on the acceptance of her paper "FastLink: An Efficient Initial Access Protocol for Millimeter Wave Systems" for the ACM MSWiM 2018.
Congratulations to Yong and Mohammed on the acceptance of their paper "On Modeling and Optimizing LTE/Wi-Fi Coexistence with Prioritized Traffic Classes" and "On the Privacy and Utility Tradeoff in Database-Assisted Dynamic Spectrum Access" for the IEEE DYSPAN 2018.
Congratulations to Peyman on the acceptance of his paper "Power Games for Secure Communications in Single-stream MIMO Interference Networks" for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
Irmak Aykin and Mohammed Hirzallah respectively join Keysight Technologies, CableLabs for summer research internships.
Congratulations to Dr. Rahbari on receiving the INFOCOM 2018 best-in-session presentation award.
Congratulations to Yong and Mohammed on the acceptance of their paper "Optimizing Inter-operator Network Slicing over Licensed and Unlicensed Bands" for the IEEE SECON 2018.
Dr. Krunz will be hosting the 3rd mmW RCN Workshop at the UA, Jan. 18 and 19, 2018. See article on the UA College of Engineering news.
2017
Congratulations to Berk for winning GPSC travel grant award for IEEE CNS 2017.
Congratulations to Berk for receiving 2017 IEEE CNS NSF/ARO Student Travel Grant.
Congratulations to Berk on the acceptance of his paper "Pilot Contamination Attacks in Massive MIMO Systems" for the IEEE CNS 2017.
Irmak Aykin, Berk Akgun, and Peyman Siyari respectively join Keysight Technologies, InterDigital, and Ridgetop Group for summer research internships.
Congratulations to Peyman Siyari, Marwan Krunz, and Diep Nguyen on the acceptance of their paper "Joint Transmitter- and Receiver-based Friendly Jamming in a MIMO Wiretap Interference Network" for the IEEE ICC 2017.
Congratulations to Dr. Krunz on his recent appointment as the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing(TMC).
Dr. Krunz organizes and moderates an Executive Panel of the IEEE WCNC 2016 Conference on the topic of "Global Research Funding Opportunities: Models & Lessons Learnt”. Panelists include: Dr. Abdul Sattar Al-Taie, Executive Director, QNRF; Dr. Chengshan Xiao, Program Director, NSF; Dr. Monique Beaudoin, Associate Director, U.S. Office of Naval Research Global, London; and Dr. Ajit Chaturvedi, Professor & Deputy Director, IIT-Kanpur.
Our innovative hardware design for dynamic spectrum access (DSA) squeezes more Wi-Fi connections from limited spectrum, which is highlighted by UA media.
Congratulations to Wessam on winning a GPSC travel grant award to attend the Asilomar 2016 Conference.
Congratulations to Dr. Afifi on passing his Ph.D. defense exam.
Congratulations to Peyman on the acceptance of his paper "Friendly Jamming in a MIMO Wiretap Interference Network: A Non-Convex Game Approach" for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
Congratulations to Berk on the acceptance of his paper "Exploiting Full-duplex Receivers for Achieving Secret Communications in Multiuser MISO Networks" for the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Congratulations to Mohammed and Wessam on the acceptance of their paper "Full-duplex-based Rate/Mode Adaptation Strategies for Wi-Fi/LTE-U Coexistence: A POMDP Approach" for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
Congratulations to Peyman on the acceptance of his paper "A Game Theoretic Design of Artificial-Noise Aided Transmissions in MIMO Wiretap Interference Network" for the IEEE Globecom 2016.
Congratulations to Mohammed and Wessam on the acceptance of their paper "Full-duplex Spectrum Sensing and Fairness Mechanisms for Wi-Fi/LTE-U Coexistence" for the IEEE Globecom 2016.
Congratulations to Irmak on the acceptance of her paper "Proactive Sensing and Interference Mitigation in Multi-link Satellite Networks" for the IEEE Globecom 2016.
Congratulations to Hanif on the acceptance of his paper "Rolling Preambles: Mitigating Stealthy FO Estimation Attacks in OFDM-based 802.11 Systems" for the IEEE CNS 2016.
Congratulations to Wessam for winning GPSC travel grant award for IEEE WiOpt 2016.
Congratulations to Wessam on the acceptance of his paper "Coexistence in wireless networks with heterogeneous self-interference cancellation capabilities" for the IEEE WiOpt 2016.
Congratulations to Wessam on the acceptance of his paper "Throughput-fairness tradeoff evaluation for next-generation WLANs with adaptive clear channel assessment" for the IEEE ICC 2016.
Congratulations to Hanif on the acceptance of his paper "Full Frame Encryption and Modulation Obfuscation Using Channel-independent Preamble Identifier" for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
Congratulations to Wessam for winning the best poster award in BWAC I/UCRC IAB Spring Meeting 2016.
Congratulations to Mohammed and Wessam on the acceptance of their paper "Integrating full-duplex capabilities in heterogeneous spectrum sharing" for the Asilomar 2016.
Congratulations to Wessam on the acceptance of his paper "Enabling media streaming over LTE-U small cells"for the IEEE WCNC 2016.
Congratulations to Wessam for winning an honorable mention certificate from the graduate division of student showcase, University of Arizona.
2015
Congratulations to Berk for winning COE travel grant award for IEEE Globecom 2015.
Congratulations to Dr. Rahbari on passing his Ph.D. defense exam.
Congratulations to Peyman on the acceptance of his paper "Price-based Friendly Jamming in a MISO Interference Wiretap Channel" for the IEEE INFOCOM 2016.
Congratulations to Irmak for winning the best poster award in BWAC I/UCRC IAB Fall Meeting 2015.
Congratulations to Berk on the acceptance of his paper "Receiver-based friendly jamming with single-antenna full-duplex receivers in a multiuser broadcast channel" for the IEEE Globecom 2015.
Congratulations to Hanif on the acceptance of his paper "Supporting PHY-layer security in multi-link wireless networks using friendly jamming" for the IEEE Globecom 2015.
Congratulations to Hanif on the acceptance of his paper "Swift jamming attack on frequency offset estimation: The Achilles' heel of OFDM systems" for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Congratulations to Peyman for winning GPSC travel grant award.
Congratulations to Wessam on the acceptance of his paper "Incorporating self-interference suppression for full-duplex operation in opportunistic spectrum access systems" for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
