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A wireless network of multiple transmitter-user pairs overheard by an eavesdropper, where the transmitters are equipped with multiple antennas while the users and eavesdropper are equipped with a single antenna, is considered. At different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Zhichao Sheng , Hoang Duong Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) and bidirectional communications in smart grid are expected to improve smart grid capabilities and electricity management. Because of massive number of IoT devices in smart grid, size of the data to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-13 Neji Mensi , Danda B. Rawat , Elyes Balti

Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising paradigm for safeguarding 6G wireless networks by exploiting the inherent characteristics of wireless channels. However, the efficiency of conventional PLS is often limited by fixed orientation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ailing Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Xingxiang Peng , Qiaoyan Peng , Ziyuan Zheng , Yuxuan Chen , Wen Chen

The Low-Altitude Economy Networking (LAENet) is emerging as a transformative paradigm that enables an integrated and sophisticated communication infrastructure to support aerial vehicles in carrying out a wide range of economic activities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lingyi Cai , Jiacheng Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Yu Zhang , Tao Jiang , Dusit Niyato , Xianbin Wang , Abbas Jamalipour , Xuemin Shen

The high directionality of millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems has proven effective in reducing the attack surface against eavesdropping, thus improving the physical layer security. However, even with highly directional beams,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Afifa Ishtiaq , Arash Asadi , Ladan Khaloopour , Waqar Ahmed , Vahid Jamali , Matthias Hollick

This paper investigates the performance of cooperative receive diversity, for the wireless body area network (WBAN) radio channel, compliant with the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard, in the case of monitoring a sleeping person. Extensive WBAN…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Samiya Shimly , Samaneh Movassaghi , David Smith

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

Caching popular contents is a promising way to offload the mobile data traffic in wireless networks, but so far the potential advantage of caching in improving physical layer security (PLS) is rarely considered. In this paper, we contribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Wu Zhao , Zhiyong Chen , Kuikui Li , Bin Xia

Data at the physical layer transmits via media such as copper cable, fiber optic, or wireless. Physical attack vectors exist that challenge data confidentiality and availability. Protocols and encryption standards help obfuscate but often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Alon Hillel-Tuch

In this paper, we investigate the impact of network coding at the relay node on the stable throughput rate in multicasting cooperative wireless networks. The proposed protocol adopts Network-level cooperation in contrast to the traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-01 Anthony Fanous , Anthony Ephremides

This paper studies the secure beamforming design in a multiple-antenna three-node system where two source nodes exchange messages with the help of an untrusted relay node. The relay acts as both an essential signal forwarder and a potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Jianhua Mo , Meixia Tao , Yuan Liu , Rui Wang

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…

In heterogeneous dense networks where spectrum is shared, users privacy remains one of the major challenges. On a multi-antenna relay-assisted multi-carrier interference channel, each user shares the frequency and spatial resources with all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-03 Zuleita Ho , Eduard Jorswieck , Sabrina Gerbracht

Exchange of crucial and confidential information leads to the unprecedented attention on the security problem in wireless networks. Though the security has been studied in a number of works, the joint optimization of the physical layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Yi Zhong , Xiaohu Ge , Tao Han , Qiang Li , Jing Zhang

Synchronization of relay nodes is an important and critical issue in exploiting cooperative diversity in wireless networks. In this paper, two asynchronous cooperative diversity schemes are proposed, namely, distributed delay diversity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-10 Shuangqing Wei

We investigate the achievable secrecy sum-rate in a multi-user XL-MIMO system, on which user distances to the base station become comparable to the antenna array dimensions. We show that the consideration of spherical-wavefront propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Gonzalo J. Anaya-Lopez , Jose P. Gonzalez-Coma , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

Backscatter wireless communication is an emerging technique widely used in low-cost and low-power wireless systems, especially in passive radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. Recently, the requirement of high data rates, data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Qian Yang , Hui-Ming Wang , Yi Zhang , Zhu Han

Opportunistic Routing (OR) is a novel routing technique for wireless mesh networks that exploits the broadcast nature of the wireless medium. OR combines frames from multiple receivers and therefore creates a form of Spatial Diversity,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-03-12 Anatolij Zubow , Robert Sombrutzki , Markus Scheidgen

Information theoretic secrecy is combined with cryptographic secrecy to create a secret-key exchange protocol for wireless networks. A network of transmitters, which already have cryptographically secured channels between them, cooperate to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Toni Draganov Stojanovski , Ninoslav Marina

In this paper, we propose a cooperative approach to improve the security of both primary and secondary systems in cognitive radio multicast communications. During their access to the frequency spectrum licensed to the primary users, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong , Oh-Soon Shin , Arumugam Nallanathan , George K. Karagiannidis