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On the Security of RF-Based IoT Network with Randomly Located Eavesdropper

Vishal Narain Saxena, Juhi Gupta, Vivek K. Dwivedi

Published Jan 1, 2023• 2 citations
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10.1007/978-981-19-6661-3_9

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