MIME professors receive the Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2025

Francesca Meneghello and Michele Rossi, members of the SIGNET research group and professors of the MIME Master’s Degree have won the Best Paper Award at the very prestigious conference IEEE INFOCOM 2025, held in London in May 2025 with their paper titled: “How to break MU-MIMO precoding in IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi networks”. This paper reveals a critical vulnerability of the Wi-Fi standard that, if unaddressed, could severely compromise the performance of all existing Wi-Fi devices using multiuser MIMO technology. The authors introduce and validate with commercial off-the-shelf Wi-Fi devices, a new beamforming report eavesdropping attacks which leverages the MU-MIMO channel estimation procedure used by Wi-Fi to decrease the throughput of an entire network without being detected. Dr. Meneghello went to present her work at the conference, here above a picture from the award ceremony (she is the one in the center).  Prof. Meneghello and prof. Rossi are extremely grateful, and thank their co-authors Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University in Boston, second from the left in the above picture), Francesco Gringoli (Università degli Studi di Brescia) and Marco Cominelli (Politecnico di Milano). This great achievement would not have been possibile without their collaboration.