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This article investigates the physical-layer security of cognitive radio (CR) networks, which are vulnerable to various newly arising attacks targeting on the weaknesses of CR communications and networking. We first review a range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yulong Zou , Jia Zhu , Liuqing Yang , Ying-Chang Liang , Yu-Dong Yao

The design of wireless systems for Mission Critical Machine Type Communication (MC-MTC) is currently a hot research topic. Wireless systems are considered to provide numerous advantages over wired systems in industrial applications for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Andreas Weinand , Abhijit Ambekar , Michael Karrenbauer , Hans D. Schotten

Providing secure communications over the physical layer with the objective of achieving perfect secrecy without requiring a secret key has been receiving growing attention within the past decade. The vast majority of the existing studies in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Sina Rezaei Aghdam , Alireza Nooraiepour , Tolga M. Duman

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) hold significant promise for enhancing physical layer security (PLS). However, conventional RISs are typically modeled using diagonal scattering matrices, capturing only independent reflections…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Weijie Xiong , Jingran Lin , Cunhua Pan , Yilong Zeng , Qiang Li

In this paper, we study the design of secure communication for time division duplex multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with active eavesdropping. We assume that the eavesdropper actively attacks the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Yongpeng Wu , Chao-Kai Wen , Wen Chen , Shi Jin , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire

The wireless medium contains domain-specific information that can be used to complement and enhance traditional security mechanisms. In this paper we propose ways to exploit the fact that, in a typically rich scattering environment, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-07-29 Liang Xiao , Larry Greenstein , Narayan Mandayam , Wade Trappe

In this paper, we study the degraded compound multi-receiver wiretap channel. The degraded compound multi-receiver wiretap channel consists of two groups of users and a group of eavesdroppers, where, if we pick an arbitrary user from each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-19 Ersen Ekrem , Sennur Ulukus

In Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) systems, Maximum-Likelihood (ML) decoding is equivalent to finding the closest lattice point in an N-dimensional complex space. In general, this problem is known to be NP hard. In this paper, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Amin Mobasher , Mahmoud Taherzadeh , Renata Sotirov , Amir K. Khandani

This paper investigates artificial noise injection into the temporal and spatial dimensions of a legitimate wireless communication system to secure its transmissions from potential eavesdropping. We consider a multiple-input single-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Ahmed El Shafie , Zhiguo Ding , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this paper we provide secrecy metrics applicable to physical-layer coding techniques with finite blocklengths over Gaussian and fading wiretap channel models. Our metrics go beyond some of the known practical secrecy measures, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Willie K. Harrison , Dinis Sarmento , João P. Vilela , Marco Gomes

In this work, we consider secure communications in wireless multi-user (MU) multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems with channel coding in the presence of a multi-antenna eavesdropper (Eve). In this setting, we exploit machine learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Abderrahmane Mayouche , Wallace A. Martins , Christos G. Tsinos , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

The two-phase MIMO NC (network coding) scheme can be used to boost the throughput in a two-way relay channel in which nodes are equipped with multiple antennas. The obvious strategy is for the relay node to extract the individual packets…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-01-18 Shengli Zhang , Soung-Chang Liew

Massive MIMO systems are well-suited for mm-Wave communications, as large arrays can be built with reasonable form factors, and the high array gains enable reasonable coverage even for outdoor communications. One of the main obstacles for…

Lattice reduction algorithms, such as the LLL algorithm, have been proposed as preprocessing tools in order to enhance the performance of suboptimal receivers in MIMO communications. In this paper we introduce a new kind of lattice…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-12 Laura Luzzi , Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman , Jean-Claude Belfiore

Secure communication over a memoryless wiretap channel in the presence of a passive eavesdropper is considered. Traditional information-theoretic security methods require an advantage for the main channel over the eavesdropper channel to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Dennis Goeckel , Hossein Pishro-Nik

This paper addresses precoder design for secure multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems. We introduce a MIMO channel with a multiple-antenna eavesdropper and a multiple-antenna sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Seongkyu Jung , Namyoon Lee , Jeonghun Park

This paper considers the problem of secret communication over a two-receiver multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Gaussian broadcast channel. The transmitter has two independent messages, each of which is intended for one of the receivers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-24 Ruoheng Liu , Tie Liu , H. Vincent Poor , Shlomo Shamai

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

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications are highly promising to improve the capacity of modern wireless networks, while the physical layer security (PLS) techniques hold great potential to enhance the critical secrecy performance therein.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Yuanyu Zhang , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang , Shoji Kasahara

Optimal physical layer multicasting (PLM) is an NP-hard problem that for simplicity has been studied under idealistic assumptions, e.g., availability of perfect channel state information (CSI), both at the base station (BS) and at the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Meysam Sadeghi , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson , Chau Yuen , Thomas L. Marzetta