English
Related papers

Related papers: Ergodic Secret Alignment

200 papers

We consider a cooperative wireless network in the presence of one of more eavesdroppers, and exploit node cooperation for achieving physical (PHY) layer based security. Two different cooperation schemes are considered. In the first scheme,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Jiangyuan Li , Athina P. Petropulu , Steven Weber

Near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) leverages distance-dependent channel variations for joint distance and angle estimation. However, full-digital architectures have prohibitive hardware costs, making hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiasi Zhou , Chintha Tellambura , Geoffrey Ye Li

In this paper, we consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system consisting of one source, one destination and one eavesdropper, where each node is equipped with an arbitrary number of antennas. To improve the security of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jia Zhu , Yulong Zou , Gongpu Wang , Yu-Dong Yao , George K. Karagiannidis

We consider secure communication over a two-user Gaussian interference channel, where each transmitter sends a confidential message to its legitimate receiver. For this setting, we identify a regime where the simple scheme of using Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Jinyuan Chen

An information-theoretic confidential communication is achievable if the eavesdropper has a degraded channel compared to the legitimate receiver. In wireless channels, beamforming and artificial noise can enable such confidentiality.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin

Considering a multi-user interference network with an eavesdropper, this paper aims at the power allocation to optimize the worst secrecy throughput among the network links or the secure energy efficiency in terms of achieved secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Zhichao Sheng , Hoang Duong Tuan , Ali Arshad Nasir , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

With the completion of standardization of fifth-generation (5G) networks, the researchers have begun visioning sixth-generation (6G) networks that are predicted to be human-centric. Hence, similar to 5G networks, besides high data rate,…

In this paper, we take all users' secrecy rate requirements into consideration and propose a rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA)-based secure beamforming approach to maximize the weighted sum-rate (WSR), where multi-user interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Huiyun Xia , Yijie Mao , Xiaokang Zhou , Bruno Clerckx , Shuai Han , Cheng Li

In this paper, we study covert communications between {a pair of} legitimate transmitter-receiver against a watchful warden over slow fading channels. There coexist multiple friendly helper nodes who are willing to protect the covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Tong-Xing Zheng , Ziteng Yang , Chao Wang , Zan Li , Jinhong Yuan , Xiaohong Guan

Secure precoding superimposed with artificial noise (AN) is a promising transmission technique to improve security by harnessing the superposition nature of the wireless medium. However, finding a jointly optimal precoding and AN structure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Eunsung Choi , Mintaek Oh , Jinseok Choi , Jeonghun Park , Namyoon Lee , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Regenerating codes based on the approach of interference alignment for wireless interference channel achieve the cut-set bound for distributed storage systems. These codes provide data reliability, and perform efficient exact node repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Natasa Paunkoska , Ninoslav Marina , Venceslav Kafedziski

Multi-user Gaussian MIMO wiretap channel is considered under interference power constraints (IPC), in addition to the total transmit power constraint (TPC). Algorithms for \textit{global} maximization of its secrecy rate are proposed. Their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Limeng Dong , Sergey Loyka , Yong Li

A core challenge in physical-layer security is the difficulty of obtaining the channel state information (CSI) of potential eavesdroppers. The inherent sensing functionality of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems offers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yaxuan Chen , Guangchi Zhang , Miao Cui , Hao Fu , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the problem of secure broadcasting over block-fading channels with limited channel knowledge at the transmitter. More particularly, we analyze the effect of having imperfect channel state information (CSI) via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Amal Hyadi , Zouheir Rezki , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The existing research on physical layer security commonly assumes the number of eavesdropper antennas to be known. Although this assumption allows one to easily compute the achievable secrecy rate, it can hardly be realized in practice. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou , Thushara D. Abhayapala

In this paper, we investigate secure communication over sparse millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels by exploiting the spatial sparsity of legitimate user's channel. We propose a secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst

We consider a group of $m$ trusted and authenticated nodes that aim to create a shared secret key $K$ over a wireless channel in the presence of an eavesdropper Eve. We assume that there exists a state dependent wireless broadcast channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Shaunak Mishra , Christina Fragouli , Suhas N. Diggavi

In this work, a class of information theoretic secrecy problems is addressed where the eavesdropper channel states are completely unknown to the legitimate parties. In particular, MIMO wiretap channel models are considered where the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-28 Xiang He , Aylin Yener

In this paper, a secure spatial modulation (SM) system with artificial noise (AN)-aided is investigated. To achieve higher secrecy rate (SR) in such a system, two high-performance schemes of transmit antenna selection (TAS), leakage-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Feng Shu , Zhengwang Wang , Riqing Chen , Yongpeng Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has attracted extensive attention in recent years. However, most research focuses on the scenario of the narrowband and/or instantaneous channel state information (CSI), while wide bandwidth with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Renwang Li , Shu Sun , Meixia Tao