Securing Emerging Wireless Systems: Lower-layer Approaches aims to fill
a growing need in the research community for a reference that describes
the lower-layer approaches as a foundation towards secure and reliable
wireless systems. Whereas most of the references typically address
cryptographic attacks by using conventional "network security" approches
for securing wireless systems, the proposed book will be differentiated
from the rest of the market by its focus on non-cryptographic attacks
that cannot easily be addressed by using traditional methods, and
further by presenting a collection of defense mechanisms that operate at
the lower-layers of the protocol stack and can defend wireless systems
before the effects of attacks propagate up to higher-level applications
and services.
The book will focus on fundamental security problems that involve
properties unique to wireless systems, such as the characteristics of
radio propagation, or the location of communicating entities, or the
properties of the medium access control layer. Specifically, the book
provides detection mechanisms and highlights defense strategies that
cope with threats to wireless localization infrastructure, attacks on
wireless networks that exploit entity identity (i.e. spoofing attacks),
jamming and radio interference that can undermine the availability of
wireless communications, and privacy threats where an adversary seeks to
infer spatial and temporal contextual information surrounding wireless
communications. Additionally, the authors explore new paradigms of
physical layer security for wireless systems, which can support
authentication and confidentiality services by exploiting fading
properties unique to wireless communications.
