ROME: Robust Model Ensembling for Semantic Communication Against Semantic Jamming Attacks

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Hauptverfasser: Zhou, Kequan, Zhang, Guangyi, Cai, Yunlong, Hu, Qiyu, Yu, Guanding
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author Zhou, Kequan
Zhang, Guangyi
Cai, Yunlong
Hu, Qiyu
Yu, Guanding
author_facet Zhou, Kequan
Zhang, Guangyi
Cai, Yunlong
Hu, Qiyu
Yu, Guanding
contents Recently, semantic communication (SC) has garnered increasing attention for its efficiency, yet it remains vulnerable to semantic jamming attacks. These attacks entail introducing crafted perturbation signals to legitimate signals over the wireless channel, thereby misleading the receivers' semantic interpretation. This paper investigates the above issue from a practical perspective. Contrasting with previous studies focusing on power-fixed attacks, we extensively consider a more challenging scenario of power-variable attacks by devising an innovative attack model named Adjustable Perturbation Generator (APG), which is capable of generating semantic jamming signals of various power levels. To combat semantic jamming attacks, we propose a novel framework called Robust Model Ensembling (ROME) for secure semantic communication. Specifically, ROME can detect the presence of semantic jamming attacks and their power levels. When high-power jamming attacks are detected, ROME adapts to raise its robustness at the cost of generalization ability, and thus effectively accommodating the attacks. Furthermore, we theoretically analyze the robustness of the system, demonstrating its superiority in combating semantic jamming attacks via adaptive robustness. Simulation results show that the proposed ROME approach exhibits significant adaptability and delivers graceful robustness and generalization ability under power-variable semantic jamming attacks.
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Zhou, Kequan
Zhang, Guangyi
Cai, Yunlong
Hu, Qiyu
Yu, Guanding
Signal Processing
Recently, semantic communication (SC) has garnered increasing attention for its efficiency, yet it remains vulnerable to semantic jamming attacks. These attacks entail introducing crafted perturbation signals to legitimate signals over the wireless channel, thereby misleading the receivers' semantic interpretation. This paper investigates the above issue from a practical perspective. Contrasting with previous studies focusing on power-fixed attacks, we extensively consider a more challenging scenario of power-variable attacks by devising an innovative attack model named Adjustable Perturbation Generator (APG), which is capable of generating semantic jamming signals of various power levels. To combat semantic jamming attacks, we propose a novel framework called Robust Model Ensembling (ROME) for secure semantic communication. Specifically, ROME can detect the presence of semantic jamming attacks and their power levels. When high-power jamming attacks are detected, ROME adapts to raise its robustness at the cost of generalization ability, and thus effectively accommodating the attacks. Furthermore, we theoretically analyze the robustness of the system, demonstrating its superiority in combating semantic jamming attacks via adaptive robustness. Simulation results show that the proposed ROME approach exhibits significant adaptability and delivers graceful robustness and generalization ability under power-variable semantic jamming attacks.
title ROME: Robust Model Ensembling for Semantic Communication Against Semantic Jamming Attacks
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01172