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Physical layer security is a promising approach that can benefit traditional encryption methods. The idea of physical layer security is to take advantage of the features of the propagation medium and its impairments to ensure secure…

Physical layer security has recently been regarded as an emerging technique to complement and improve the communication security in future wireless networks. The current research and development in physical layer security is often based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou

Providing security guarantees for wireless communication is critically important for today's applications. While previous work in this area has concentrated on radio frequency (RF) channels, providing security guarantees for RF channels is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Amine Laourine , Aaron B. Wagner

Graphical passwords (GPWs) have been studied over 20 years. We are motivated from QR codes that can be considered GPWs, are successfully applied in today's world. However, one need such GPWs that can be use conveniently and have higher…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Bing Yao , Hui Sun , Hongyu Wang , Jing Su , Jin Xu

Intelligent reflection surface (IRS) is emerging as a promising technique for future wireless communications. Considering its excellent capability in customizing the channel conditions via energy-focusing and energy-nulling, it is an ideal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Shihao Yan , Xiaobo Zhou , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Naofal Al-Dhahir

As the scale of networked control systems increases and interactions between different subsystems become more sophisticated, questions of the resilience of such networks increase in importance. The need to redefine classical system and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Mohammad Pirani , Aritra Mitra , Shreyas Sundaram

Shannon showed that to achieve perfect secrecy in point-to-point communication, the message rate cannot exceed the shared secret key rate giving rise to the simple one-time pad encryption scheme. In this paper, we extend this work from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Hongchao Zhou , Abbas El Gamal

Graph theory has become a very critical component in many applications in the computing field including networking and security. Unfortunately, it is also amongst the most complex topics to understand and apply. In this paper, we review…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Jonathan Webb , Fernando Docemmilli , Mikhail Bonin

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the domain of physical layer security in multiuser wireless networks. The essential premise of physical-layer security is to enable the exchange of confidential messages over a wireless medium…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Amitav Mukherjee , S. A. A. Fakoorian , Jing Huang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This paper designs a graph neural network (GNN) to improve bandwidth allocations for multiple legitimate wireless users transmitting to a base station in the presence of an eavesdropper. To improve the privacy and prevent eavesdropping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xin Hao , Phee Lep Yeoh , Yuhong Liu , Changyang She , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

In this article, we investigate strategic information transmission over a noisy channel. This problem has been widely investigated in Economics, when the communication channel is perfect. Unlike in Information Theory, both encoder and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Mael Le Treust , Tristan Tomala

The interference imposes a significant negative impact on the performance of wireless networks. With the continuous deployment of larger and more sophisticated wireless networks, reducing interference in such networks is quickly being…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-03-31 Maaly Awad Hassan , Andrew Chickadel

This letter presents a performance comparison of two popular secrecy enhancement techniques in wireless networks: (i) creating guard zones by restricting transmissions of legitimate transmitters whenever any eavesdropper is detected in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Mustafa A. Kishk , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Network detection is an important capability in many areas of applied research in which data can be represented as a graph of entities and relationships. Oftentimes the object of interest is a relatively small subgraph in an enormous,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Steven T. Smith , Kenneth D. Senne , Scott Philips , Edward K. Kao , Garrett Bernstein

Next-generation wireless networks are progressing beyond conventional connectivity to incorporate emerging sensing and computing capabilities. This convergence gives rise to integrated systems that enable not only uninterrupted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ruiqi Liu , Beixiong Zheng , Jemin Lee , Si-Hyeon Lee , Georges Kaddoum , Onur Günlü , Deniz Gündüz

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communications have drawn significant attention recently. We study the physical layer security of the downlink RIS-aided transmission framework for randomly located users in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Qiang Sun , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Low probability of detection (LPD) has recently emerged as a means to enhance the privacy and security of wireless networks. Unlike existing wireless security techniques, LPD measures aim to conceal the entire existence of wireless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Sivaram Krishnan , Jihong Park , Subhash Sagar , Gregory Sherman , Benjamin Campbell , Jinho Choi

Micro-segmentation is an emerging security technique that separates physical networks into isolated logical micro-segments (workloads). By tying fine-grained security policies to individual workloads, it limits the attacker's ability to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Nardine Basta , Muhammad Ikram , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Andy Walker

When two or more users in a wireless network transmit simultaneously, their electromagnetic signals are linearly superimposed on the channel. As a result, a receiver that is interested in one of these signals sees the others as unwanted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Bobak Nazer , Michael Gastpar

Security is an essential requirement of Industrial Control System (ICS) environments and its underlying communication infrastructure. Especially the lowest communication level within Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Thomas R. Doebbert , Florian Fischer , Dominik Merli , Gerd Scholl