The best defense is a good offense: adversarial attacks to avoid modulation detection
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Author(s)
Hameed, Mohammad Zaid
Gyorgy, Andras
Gunduz, Deniz
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We consider a communication scenario, in which an intruder tries to determine the modulation scheme of the intercepted signal. Our aim is to minimize the accuracy of the intruder, while guaranteeing that the intended receiver can still recover the underlying message with the highest reliability. This is achieved by perturbing channel input symbols at the encoder,similarly to adversarial attacks against classifiers in machine learning. In image classification, the perturbation is limited to be imperceptible to a human observer, while in our case the perturbation is constrained so that the message can still be reliably decoded by the legitimate receiver, which is oblivious to the perturbation. Simulation results demonstrate the viability of our approach to make wireless communication secure against state-of-the-art intruders (using deep learning or decision trees)with minimal sacrifice in the communication performance. On he other hand, we also demonstrate that using diverse training data and curriculum learning can significantly boost the accuracy of the intruder.
Date Issued
2020-09-21
Date Acceptance
2020-08-26
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2020, 16, pp.1074-1087
ISSN
1556-6013
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
1074
End Page
1087
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Volume
16
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9201397
Grant Number
677854
Subjects
08 Information and Computing Sciences
09 Engineering
Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-09-21