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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 presents a reinforcement learning (RL) based approach to improve the physical layer security (PLS) of an underlay cognitive radio network (CRN) over cascaded channels. These channels are utilized in highly mobile networks such as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Deemah H. Tashman , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Walaa Hamouda

This paper considers secrecy enhancement mechanisms in visible light communication (VLC) systems with spatially distributed passive eavesdroppers (EDs) under the assumption that there are multiple LED transmitters and one legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Sunghwan Cho , Gaojie Chen , Justin P. Coon

Based on the concept of constructive interference (CI), multiuser interference (MUI) has recently been shown to be beneficial for communication secrecy. A few CI-based secure precoding algorithms have been proposed that use both the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Qian Xu , Pinyi Ren , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Conventional spatial modulation (SM) is typically considered for transmission in the downlink of small-scale MIMO systems, where a single one of a set of antenna elements (AEs) is activated for implicitly conveying extra bits. By contrast,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Zhen Gao , Linglong Dai , Zhaocheng Wang , Sheng Chen , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we investigate methods for reducing the likelihood that a message transmitted between two multiantenna nodes is intercepted by an undetected eavesdropper. In particular, we focus on the judicious transmission of artificial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Amitav Mukherjee , A. Lee Swindlehurst

We consider the multi-antenna wiretap channel in which the transmitter wishes to send a confidential message to its receiver while keeping it secret to the eavesdropper. It has been known that the secrecy capacity of such a channel does not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mari Kobayashi , Pablo Piantanida , Sheng Yang , Shlomo Shamai

This paper studies the problem of secure communication over the broadcast channel with receiver side information under the lens of individual secrecy constraints. That is, the transmitter wants to send two independent messages to two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Yanling Chen , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Aydin Sezgin

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

This paper proposes a jointly cooperative relay and jamming protocol based on full-duplex (FD) capable relay to increase the source-destination secrecy rate in the presence of different types of eavesdroppers. In this so called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-10 Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Tho Le-Ngoc

Programmable metasurfaces and adjustable antennas are promising technologies. The security of a rotatable array system is investigated in this paper. A dual-base-station (BS) architecture is adopted, in which the BSs collaboratively perform…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Maolin Li , Feng Shu , Minghao Chen , Cunhua Pan , Fuhui Zhou , Yongpeng Wu , Liang Yang

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising technique for enhancing computation capabilities for wireless networks. In this paper, we study physical layer security in an MEC system where multiple users offload partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Yating Wen , Tong-Xing Zheng , Yongxia Tong , Hao-Wen Liu , Xin Chen , Pengcheng Mu , Hui-Ming Wang

This paper considers multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) full-duplex (FD) two-way secrecy systems. Specifically, both multi-antenna FD legitimate nodes exchange their own confidential message in the presence of an eavesdropper. Taking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Zheng Chu , Tuan Anh Le , Huan X. Nguyen , Arumugam Nallanathan , Mehmet Karamanoglu

This work considers the problem of secure and reliable information transmission via relay cooperation in two-hop relay wireless networks without the information of both eavesdropper channels and locations. While previous work on this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang , Jianfeng Ma , Weisong Shi

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

Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) refers to a distributed Massive MIMO system where all the access points (APs) cooperate to coherently serve all the user equipments (UEs), suppress inter-cell interference and mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Pål Frenger , Erik G. Larsson

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

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have several prominent advantages, including improving the level of wireless communications security and privacy. In this work, we focus on this aspect and envision a strategy to counteract the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Francesco Malandrino , Alessandro Nordio , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Recently, spectrum sharing has been considered as a promising solution to improve the spectrum utilization. It however may be vulnerable to security problems as the primary and secondary network access the same resource. Therefore, in this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-09-01 Louis Sibomana , Hung Tran , Quang Anh Tran

In this paper, we consider the physical layer security of an RIS-assisted multiple-antenna communication system with randomly located eavesdroppers. The exact distributions of the received signal-to-noise-ratios (SNRs) at the legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Wei Shi , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Xiaohu You , Chunming Zhao