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Intentional Electromagnetic Interference and Wireless Communication Systems: Impact, Detection and Localization of Attack Sources
Time:
Monday, 01/Sept/2025:
9:00am - 10:30am
Location:Room 109
75 seats, Tower 44, 1st floor
Session Abstract
This tutorial will present the threats posed by intentional EM interference in the field of information systems security.
After an introduction and a brief history of passed works on IEMIs, the main characteristics of the IEMIs that can be employed against communication systems will be presented.
This will be followed by an introduction to cybersecurity exploitation of IEMI, providing an overview of how IEMI can be used by attackers and the outcomes on the security of information processed by electronic equipment. Several threat models will be explained and illustrated by a literature review or insights on original research.
The rest of the tutorial will focus on the use case of Wi-Fi communications in the presence of radio jammers.
First, the audience will be reminded of some preliminary information on the Wi-Fi protocol and OFDM modulation.
Then, the mechanisms by which this IEMI affects the Wi-Fi communication protocol and OFDM modulation will be presented in detail. The different impacts will also be discussed and an experiment will be carried out live in the room to illustrate how the source of IEMI affects the communication quality, depending on the position of the IEMI source and the waveform of the IEMI signal.
Finally, the rest of the tutorial will present work that has been carried out to detect and geolocate these sources of interference inside a building.
Presentations
9:00am - 9:30am
Cybersecurity exploitation of IEMI
José Lopes Esteves
Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information
This presentation will give an overview of how IEMI can be used by attackers and the outcomes on the security of information processed by electronic equipment.
9:30am - 10:00am
Intentional Electromagnetic Interference and wireless communication systems: impact, detection and localization of attack sources
Virginie Deniau, Christophe Gransart, Jonathan Villain
université Gustave Eiffel, France
In this presentation, starting with IEMIs in the broadest sense, we will focus on IEMIs generated with the aim of disrupting communication systems. The main characteristics of these interferences and their effect on connected communicating solutions will be presented. We then present an analysis of the impact of a jamming signal on the quality of Wi-Fi communications, according to the characteristics of the jamming signal. A demonstration in live will be performed, in order to illustrate the impact on the communication.
10:00am - 10:30am
Detection and localization of a jamming source inside a building
Jonathan Villain1, Virginie Deniau1, Dufour Michael2, Gransart Christophe1
1Université Gustave Eiffel, France; 2Inodesign
We present a study which was performed to develop AI for detection and localization of a jamming source inside a building. In the presentation, the experimental monitoring system employed to measure the radio frequency activity inside the building and to collect the data base will be presented. Then, the learning acquisition processes for detection and for localization will presented and the result will be discuted for different types of monitored data.
