Real number signal processing can detect denial-of-service attacks

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Contributors

  • Holger Boche - , Technical University of Munich, Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST), Ruhr University Bochum (Author)
  • Rafael F. Schaefer - , University of Siegen (Author)
  • H. Vincent Poor - , Princeton University (Author)

Abstract

Wireless communication systems are inherently vulnerable to adversarial attacks since malevolent jammers might jam and disrupt the legitimate transmission intentionally. Of particular interest are so-called denial-of-service (DoS) attacks in which the jammer is able to completely disrupt the communication. Accordingly, it is of crucial interest for the legitimate users to detect such DoS attacks. Turing machines provide the fundamental limits of today's digital computers and therewith of the traditional signal processing. It has been shown that these are incapable of detecting DoS attacks. This stimulates the question of how powerful the signal processing must be to enable the detection of DoS attacks. This paper investigates the general computation framework of Blum-Shub-Smale machines which allows the processing and storage of arbitrary reals. It is shown that such real number signal processing then enables the detection of DoS attacks.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Pages4765-4769
Number of pages5
ISBN (electronic)978-1-7281-7605-5
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

SeriesInternational Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
ISSN1520-6149

Conference

Title2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2021
Duration6 - 11 June 2021
CityVirtual, Toronto
CountryCanada

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-1702-9075/work/165878306

Keywords

Keywords

  • Algorithmic detection, Blum-Shub-Smale machine, Denial-of-service attack, Real number signal processing