Professor Josep Jornet and Ph.D. student Sherif Badran, in collaboration with Professor Edward Knightly and Ph.D. student Zhambyl Shaikhanov from Rice University, and Professor Daniel Mittleman from Brown University, recently received the Best Demo Award at the 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile ’23) for their work “Adversarial Aerial MetaSurfaces.”
Wireless backhaul links are a critical part of wireless communication and commonly exploit mmWave and sub-THz frequency bands (30-300 GHz) for high-data-rate and low-latency transmissions. Wireless backhaul antennas are usually positioned in elevated hard-to-reach regions and employ highly directive links, thus presumably immune from over-the-air attacks. In this work, they show for the first time that a strong adversary can secretly manipulate the backhaul transmission wavefront on-the-fly and enable remote eavesdropping.
Read the papers related to this award: