I am a security researcher specializing in wireless communications and cybersecurity. My work is focused on developing fair, robust and secure spectrum sharing techniques for 5G networks as they coexist with competing protocols, such as Wi-Fi, and incumbent services, such as radio astronomy systems. My lightweight solutions facilitate concurrent operation of coexisting wireless systems while limiting unintended interference and mitigating adversarial attacks. My work has been published in multiple peer-reviewed venues including the top-ranked IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. I am currently working towards developing interoperable protocol-agnostic coexistence frameworks for seamless and secure wireless coexistence with both terrestrial and non-terrestrial communication systems.


Research Interests

Selected Publications

S. Dongre, T. M. Hoang, H. Rahbari, and A. Vahid, “Robust and Practical 3D RFI Nulling for 5G and Radio Astronomy Coexistence,” IEEE Trans. Cogn. Commun. Netw. (TCCN), vol. 12, pp. 2051–2063, 2025. [DOI]
S. Dongre and H. Rahbari, “Fair and Secure 5G and Wi-Fi Coexistence Using Robust Implicit Channel Coordination,” *IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Security (TIFS)*, vol. 19, pp. 6679–6692, 2024. [DOI]
S. Dongre and H. Rahbari, “Implicit Channel Coordination to Tackle Starvation Attacks in 5G and Wi-Fi Coexistence Systems,” *Proc. IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (GLOBECOM)*, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 4–8, 2022, pp. 4136–4141. [DOI]

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