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This paper investigates the potential of movable antennas (MAs) to enhance physical layer security within a multiple-input multiple-output multiple-antenna eavesdropper (MIMOME) system. We consider a practical scenario where the transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Lei Xie , Peilan Wang , Guanxiong Shen , Guyue Li , Weidong Mei , Liquan Chen

Wireless communications empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent (meta)Surfaces (RISs) are recently gaining remarkable research attention due to the increased system design flexibility offered by RISs for diverse functionalities. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos Katsanos , Miaowen Wen , Daniel B. da Costa

Traditional physical layer secure beamforming is achieved via precoding before signal transmission using channel state information (CSI). However, imperfect CSI will compromise the performance with imperfect beamforming and potential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Tongyang Xu , Zhongxiang Wei , Tianhua Xu , Gan Zheng

In this paper, we address the problem of energy-efficient power allocation for secure communications in an amplify-and-forward (AF) large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (LS-MIMO) relaying system in presence of a passive eavesdropper.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Jian Chen , Xiaoming Chen , Tao Liu , Lei Lei

This article discusses opportunities and challenges of physical layer security integration in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MaMIMO) systems. Specifically, we first show that MaMIMO itself is robust against passive eavesdropping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Dzevdan Kapetanovic , Gan Zheng , Fredrik Rusek

The physical layer security (PLS) performance of a wireless communication link through a large reflecting surface (LRS) with phase errors is analyzed. Leveraging recent results that express the \ac{LRS}-based composite channel as an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jose David Vega Sanchez , Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

In this letter, improving the security of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) communication system is studied. Different from the ideal assumption in existing literatures that full…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Hui-Ming Wang , Jiale Bai , Limeng Dong

The problem of resource allocation in multiple-antenna wiretap channels is investigated, wherein a malicious user tries to eavesdrop the communication between two legitimate users. Both multiple input single output single-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Alessio Zappone , Pin-Hsun Lin , Eduard A. Jorswieck

We present two attacks on two different versions of physical layer cryptography schemes based on massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). Both cryptosystems employ a singular value decomposition (SVD) precoding technique. For the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Amin Sakzad , Ron Steinfeld

In this work, novel physical layer security (PLS) schemes are proposed for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) to secure both data and pilots. The majority of previous studies focus on only securing the data without…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Salah Eddine Zegrar , Haji M. Furqan , Huseyin Arslan

To improve national security, government agencies have long been committed to enforcing powerful surveillance measures on suspicious individuals or communications. In this paper, we consider a wireless legitimate surveillance system, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Caijun Zhong , Xin Jiang , Fengzhong Qu , Zhaoyang Zhang

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

A common approach for introducing security at the physical layer is to rely on the channel variations of the wireless environment. This type of approach is not always suitable for wireless networks where the channel remains static for most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Mohammad Iftekhar Husain , Suyash Mahant , Ramalingam Sridhar

In this paper, we investigate the impact of phase noise on the secrecy performance of downlink massive MIMO systems in the presence of a passive multiple-antenna eavesdropper. Thereby, for the base station (BS) and the legitimate users, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jun Zhu , Robert Schober , Vijay K. Bhargava

Physical layer security offers an efficient means to decrease the risk of confidential information leakage through wiretap links. In this paper, we address the physical-layer security in a cooperative wireless subnetwork that includes a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Saeed Vahidian , Sajad Hatamnia , Benoit Champagne

This paper studies physical-layer secure transmissions from a transmitter to a legitimate receiver against an eavesdropper over slow fading channels, taking into account the impact of finite blocklength secrecy coding. A comprehensive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

In this paper, we address the problem of optimal power allocation at the relay in two-hop secure communications. In order to solve the challenging issue of short-distance interception in secure communications, the benefit of large-scale…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Jian Chen , Xiaoming Chen , Xiumin Wang , Lei Lei

As next-generation wireless networks emerge, security is becoming a critical performance metric. However, conventional multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems often suffer from severe path loss and are vulnerable to nearby…

This paper investigates the physical layer security (PLS) of a broadband in-home power line communication (PLC) system when a malicious wireless device tries to eavesdrop private messages exchanged between two PLC devices. Such a security…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-30 Ândrei Camponogara , H. Vincent Poor , Moisés V. Ribeiro

Recently, physical layer security based approaches have drawn considerable attentions and are envisaged to provide secure communications in the wireless networks. However, most existing literatures only focus on the physical layer. Thus,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Jun Wang , Pengfei Huang , Xudong Wang