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We consider a two-hop wireless network where a transmitter communicates with a receiver via $M$ relays with an amplify-and-forward (AF) protocol. Recent works have shown that sophisticated linear processing such as beamforming and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-03-20 Mari Kobayashi , Xavier Mestre

We consider stochastic motion planning in single-source single-destination robotic relay networks, under a cooperative beamforming framework. Assuming that the communication medium constitutes a spatiotemporal stochastic field, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Dionysios S. Kalogerias , Athina P. Petropulu

Processing of multiple communication flows in wireless systems has given rise to a number of novel transmission techniques, notably the two-way relaying based on wireless network coding. Recently, a related set of techniques has emerged,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Lilian Hong

With the rapid evolution of wireless technologies, Wi-Fi has expanded beyond its original role in data transmission to support various emerging applications, particularly in physical-layer security, including device authentication, user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jingzhe Zhang , Yitong Shen , Ning Wang , Yili Ren

We study physical-layer security in wireless ad hoc networks and investigate two types of multi-antenna transmission schemes for providing secrecy enhancements. To establish secure transmission against malicious eavesdroppers, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xi Zhang , Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay

Beamforming design has been widely investigated for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with full-duplex (FD) sensing and half-duplex (HD) communication. To achieve higher spectral efficiency, in this paper, we extend…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zhenyao He , Wei Xu , Hong Shen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Yonina C. Eldar , Xiaohu You

A MIMO secure two-hop wireless communication system is considered in this paper. In this model, there are no direct links between the source-destination and the source-eavesdropper. The problem is maximizing the secrecy capacity of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Ghadamali Bagherikaram , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

This paper investigates the performance of optimal single stream beamforming schemes in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) dual-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) systems. Assuming channel state information is not available at the source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Caijun Zhong , Tharm Ratnarajah , Shi Jin , Kai Kit Wong

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless medium, wireless communication is highly vulnerable to eavesdropping attack. Traditionally, secure wireless data transmission has relied on cryptographic techniques at the network layer which incur…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Binh Van Nguyen , Hyoyoung Jung , Kiseon Kim

Due to great efficiency improvement in resource and hardware space, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has gained much attention. In the paper, the physical layer security (PLS) of ISAC system under communication eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tian Zhang , Zhirong Su , Yueyi Dong

A movable antennas (MAs)-enabled secure multiuser transmission framework is developed to enhance physical-layer security. Novel expressions are derived to characterize the achievable sum secrecy rate based on the secure channel coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhenqiao Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Boqun Zhao , Xingqi Zhang

Channels of satellite communication are usually modeled as Rician fading channels with very large Rician factor or Gaussian channels. Therefore, when a legitimate user is close to an eavesdropping user, the legitimate channel is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Shuai Han , Xiangxue Tai , Weixiao Meng , Cheng Li

In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security in the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free networks. A maximum weighted sum secrecy rate problem is formulated by jointly optimizing the active beamforming (BF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Wanming Hao , Junjie Li , Gangcan Sun , Ming Zeng , Octavia A. Dobre

Polarforming is a promising technique that enables dynamic adjustment of antenna polarization to mitigate depolarization effects commonly encountered during electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation. In this letter, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Bingli Jiao , Rui Zhang

We study a cloud network with M distributed receiving antennas and L users, which transmit their messages towards a centralized decoder (CD), where M>=L. We consider that the cloud network applies the Compute-and-Forward (C&F) protocol,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Koralia N. Pappi , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Hadi Otrok , George K. Karagiannidis

While information securityis a fundamental requirement for wireless communications, conventional optimization based approaches often struggle with real-time implementation, and deep models, typically discriminative in nature, may lack the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Tong Hui , Xiao Tang , Yichen Wang , Qinghe Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

This paper proposes a new security cooperative protocol, for dual phase amplify-and-forward large wireless sensor networks. In such a network, a portion of the K relays can be potential eavesdroppers. The source agrees to share with the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Michael Atallah , Georges Kaddoum

Interference alignment is a signaling technique that provides high multiplexing gain in the interference channel. It can be extended to multi-hop interference channels, where relays aid transmission between sources and destinations. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kien T. Truong , Philippe Sartori , Robert W. Heath

This paper examines linear beamforming methods for secure communications in a multiuser wiretap channel with a single transmitter, multiple legitimate receivers, and a single eavesdropper, where all nodes are equipped with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Amitav Mukherjee , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Secure wireless information and power transfer based on directional modulation is conceived for amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying networks. Explicitly, we first formulate a secrecy rate maximization (SRM) problem, which can be decomposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Xiaobo Zhou , Jun Li , Feng Shu , Qingqing Wu , Yongpeng Wu , Wen Chen , Hanzo Lajos