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The broadcasting nature of the wireless medium makes exposure to eavesdroppers a potential threat. Physical Layer Security (PLS) has been widely recognized as a promising security measure complementary to encryption. It has recently been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Parastoo Sadeghi , Faycal Bouhafs , Neda Aboutorab , Frank den Hartog

Millimeter wave offers a sensible solution to the capacity crunch faced by 5G wireless communications. This paper comprehensively studies physical layer security in a multi-input single-output (MISO) millimeter wave system where multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Ying Ju , Hui-Ming Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng , Qinye Yin , Moon Ho Lee

Due to the malicious attacks in wireless networks, physical layer security has attracted increasing concerns from both academia and industry. The research on physical layer security mainly focuses either on the secrecy capacity/achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Dong Wang , Bo Bai , Wenbo Zhao , Zhu Han

A downlink single-input single-output non-orthogonal multiple access setting is considered, in which a base station (BS) is communicating with two legitimate users in two possible scenarios of unsecure environments: existence of an external…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Ahmed Arafa , Wonjae Shin , Mojtaba Vaezi , H. Vincent Poor

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical layer security has always been a fundamental but challenging problem. Recent advance of Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) introduces a new dimension for secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Jian Li , Lan Zhang , Kaiping Xue , Yuguang Fang

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

Wi-Fi signals may help realize low-cost and non-invasive human sensing, yet it can also be exploited by eavesdroppers to capture private information. Very few studies rise to handle this privacy concern so far; they either jam all sensing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Jun Luo , Hangcheng Cao , Hongbo Jiang , Yanbing Yang , Zhe Chen

The potential of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) for energy-efficient and performance-boosted wireless communications is recently gaining remarkable research attention, motivating their consideration for various $5$-th Generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Miaowen Wen , Daniel B. da Costa

A downlink single-input single-output non-orthogonal multiple access system is considered in which a base station (BS) is communicating with two legitimate users in the presence of an external eavesdropper. A group of trusted cooperative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Ahmed Arafa , Wonjae Shin , Mojtaba Vaezi , H. Vincent Poor

Conventional wireless security assumes wireless communications are rightful and aims to protect them against malicious eavesdropping and jamming attacks. However, emerging infrastructure-free mobile communication networks are likely to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

We propose a novel physical layer security scheme that exploits an optimization method as a one-way function. The proposed scheme builds on nonsquare differential multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), which is capable of noncoherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-22 Yuma Katsuki , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Koji Ishibashi , Naoki Ishikawa

In this paper, we propose to utilize intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) for enhancing the physical layer security of wireless communications systems. In particular, an IRS-assisted secure wireless system is considered, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

We investigate large wireless networks subject to security constraints. In contrast to point-to-point, interference-limited communications considered in prior works, we propose active cooperative relaying based schemes. We consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Mahtab Mirmohseni , Panagiotis Papadimitratos

In this paper, we examine the physical layer security for cooperative wireless networks with multiple intermediate nodes, where the decode-and-forward (DF) protocol is considered. We propose a new joint relay and jammer selection (JRJS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Haiyan Guo , Zhen Yang , Linghua Zhang , Jia Zhu , Yulong Zou

Wireless vehicular network (WVN) is exponentially gaining attention from industries and researchers since it is the Keystone of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Despite the sophisticated features and services that it can offer, it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Neji Mensi , Danda B. Rawat , Elyes Balti

Relay-based cooperative communication has become a research focus in recent years because it can achieve diversity gain in wireless networks. In existing works, network coding and two-path relay are adopted to deal with the increase of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Hao Lu , Peilin Hong , Kaiping Xue

We propose a secure transmission scheme for a relay wiretap channel, where a source communicates with a destination via a decode-and-forward relay in the presence of spatially random-distributed eavesdroppers. We assume that the source is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Chenxi Liu , Nan Yang , Jinhong Yuan , Robert Malaney

In this paper, we study the physical layer security (PLS) problem in the dual hop orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based wireless communication system. First, we consider a single user single relay system and study a joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Waqas Aman , Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu , Haji M. Furqan , Zain Ali

Physical layer security is known as a promising paradigm to ensure security for the beyond 5G (B5G) networks in the presence of eavesdroppers. In this paper, we elaborate on a tractable analysis framework to evaluate the reliability and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Xingwang Li , Mengyan Huang , Yuanwei Liu , Varun G Menon , Anand Paul , Zhiguo Ding

A novel frequency diverse array (FDA)-assisted secure transmission framework is proposed, which leverages additional frequency offsets to enhance physical layer security. Specifically, an FDA-assisted wiretap channel is considered, where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Zhenqiao Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang