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Traditional cryptography assumes an eavesdropper receives an error-free copy of the transmitted ciphertext. Wyner's wiretap channel model recognizes that at the physical layer both the intended receiver and the passive eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Willie K Harrison , Steven W. McLaughlin

We consider a cooperative wireless network comprised of a source, a destination and multiple relays operating in the presence of an eavesdropper, which attempts to tap the source-destination transmission. We propose multi-relay selection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Jia Zhu , Yulong Zou , Benoit Champagne , Wei-Ping Zhu , Lajos Hanzo

Covert communication aims to shield the very existence of wireless transmissions in order to guarantee a strong security in wireless networks. In this work, for the first time we examine the possibility and achievable performance of covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jinsong Hu , Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

The channel state information (CSI) of an eavesdropper is crucial for physical layer security (PLS) design, but it is difficult to obtain due to the passive and non-cooperative nature of the eavesdropper. To this end, integrated sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Yiming Xu , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song , Dusit Niyato

We study the secrecy of wireless channels in the presence of an eavesdropper, where the channels are random and the transmitter only has knowledge of the channel statistics. We investigate the optimal input distribution with respect to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Clement Leroy , Tarak Arbi , Benoit Geller , Olivier Rioul

In this work, a directional modulation-based technique is devised to enhance the security of a multi-antenna wireless communication system employing M-PSK modulation to convey information. The directional modulation method operates by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Ashkan Kalantari , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Sina Maleki , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

This paper considers the problem of filter design with secrecy constraints, where two legitimate parties (Alice and Bob) communicate in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve), over a Gaussian multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wiretap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Hugo Reboredo , João Xavier , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

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

Reliable communication imposes an upper limit on the achievable rate, namely the Shannon capacity. Wyner's wiretap coding, which ensures a security constraint also, in addition to reliability, results in decrease of the achievable rate. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Shahid M. Shah , Vinod Sharma

In this paper, we investigate the performance of physical-layer security of a pinching-antenna system on a lossless dielectric waveguide. In particular, the system uses a single pinching-antenna to convey confidential information from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Osamah S. Badarneh , Hugerles S. Silva , Yazan H. Al Badarneh

This paper considers a cyber-physical system under an active eavesdropping attack. A remote legitimate user estimates the state of a linear plant from the state information received from a sensor. Transmissions from the sensor occur via an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Matthew Crimson , Justin M. Kennedy , Daniel E. Quevedo

Covert communication aims to hide the very existence of wireless transmissions in order to guarantee a strong security in wireless networks. In this work, we examine the possibility and achievable performance of covert communication in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jinsong Hu , Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Feng Shu , Jun Li , Jiangzhou Wang

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

Passive eavesdropping compromises confidentiality in wireless networks, especially in resource-constrained environments where heavyweight cryptography is impractical. Physical layer security (PLS) exploits channel randomness and spatial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yifan Zhang , Yishan Yang , Riku Jäntti , Zheng Yan , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

This study proposes a novel approach to ensure the security of textual data transmission in a semantic communication system. In the proposed system, a sender transmits textual information to a receiver, while a potential eavesdropper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qin Guo , Haonan Tong , Sihua Wang , Peiyuan Si , Jun Zhao , Changchuan Yin

Due to the broadcast nature of radio propagation, the wireless transmission can be readily overheard by unauthorized users for interception purposes and is thus highly vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks. To this end, physical-layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yulong Zou , Jia Zhu , Xianbin Wang , Victor C. M. Leung

In this paper, we investigate the robust outage constrained transmission design for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided secure communication system. We assume that a single-antenna legitimate receiver (Bob) served by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Sheng Hong , Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang

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

Key extraction via measuring a physical quantity is a class of information theoretic key exchange protocols that rely on the physical characteristics of the communication channel to enable the computation of a shared key by two (or more)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Matt Edman , Aggelos Kiayias , Qiang Tang , Bulent Yener

Surveillance performance is studied for a wireless eavesdropping system, where a full-duplex legitimate monitor eavesdrops a suspicious link efficiently with the artificial noise (AN) assistance. Different from the existing work in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Zihao Cheng , Jiangbo Si , Zan Li , Danyang Wang , Naofal Al-Dhahir