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Established in 2018, the Wireless and IoT Security & Privacy (WISP) research laboratory focuses on making wireless systems more secure, with emphasis on emerging connected vehicle ecosystems, next-generation Wi-Fi and cellular systems, electronic warfare, and coexistence in shared spectrum, in order to protect their growing applications from various privacy, spoofing, and denial-of-service attacks. Our team uses machine learning and deep learning, applied cryptography, and formal protocol verification, along with testbed implementation and prototyping, to build solutions that prevent attacks, including future quantum attacks.

Our findings have been published in various journals and conferences, including IEEE INFOCOMIEEE TWCIEEE TMC, NDSS, ACM WiSecIEEE JSAC, and IEEE TIFS [see Publications]. 

For software-defined radio experiments, WISP is housed in the Faraday Lab at RIT's ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, where the first open-source testbed for connected vehicle security (V2Verifier) is under active development by WISP team members.


PHY-layer security and (MIMO) frame preamble design


Modulation obfuscation and full-frame encryption


Secure spectrum sharing for 5G and coexisting systems


Trust and authentication in connected vehicles, IoT, and Wi-Fi

News

September

2023

Our paper on supporting transition to post-quantum authentication in connected vehicles through optimizing the V2V spectrum is accepted to appear in NDSS 2024 conference. (Congrats to Geoff!)

August

2023

Shima joined the WISP team as a PhD student. Welcome Shima!

Connected Vehicle Security Course

Training modules designed for beginners and professionals with hands-on labs — based around our open-source software-defined radio testbed, V2Verifier — and lecture notes, available to research and education communities.

Animations and USRP (Software-defined Radio) Demos

5G C-V2X Security Research in the WISP Lab

A brief introduction to research on 5G C-V2X security going on in the Wireless and IoT Security and Privacy (WISP) lab at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Security Research at RIT's ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute

Sponsored by the National Security Agency (NSA), a comprehensive research and education testbed is being developed at WISP (open to the community) aiming at advancing the state-of-the-art V2V security research and training of next-generation experts in connected vehicle security.

Swift jamming attack on frequency offset estimation: The Achilles' heel of OFDM systems

The demonstration of an extremely short-lived but highly successful jamming attack against OFDM-based Wi-Fi systems, arguably the swiftest jamming attack available, where the attacker precisely targets a tiny portion of the frame preamble with a specially-crafted jamming signal.

Modulation Obfuscation and Full-Frame Encryption Hiding Side-channel Information

Demonstration of Friendly CryptoJam technique, developed first in 2014 and used for obfuscating the modulation scheme and encrypting the entire (PHY) frame to mitigate the leakage of side-channel information, among other things.