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Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising technology to secure wireless communications by exploiting the physical properties of the wireless channel. However, the passive nature of PLS creates a significant imbalance between the effort…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wenwen Chen , Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Anke Schmeink , Giuseppe Caire , Hans D. Schotten

Wavefront engineering for applications in near-field wireless connectivity is gradually becoming common ground. In this landscape, beams that propagate on bent paths are ideal candidates for dynamic blockage avoidance and suppression of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Sotiris Droulias , Giorgos Stratidakis , Angeliki Alexiou

This paper investigates simultaneous transmission and reflection reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) aided physical layer security (PLS) in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the base station (BS) transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiequn Dong , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu

Feature-based physical layer authentication (PLA) schemes, using position-specific channel characteristics as identifying features, can provide lightweight protection against impersonation attacks in overhead-limited applications like e.g.,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Henrik Forssell , Ragnar Thobaben

This paper examines the security vulnerabilities and threats imposed by the inherent open nature of wireless communications and to devise efficient defense mechanisms for improving the wireless network security. We first summarize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yulong Zou , Jia Zhu , Xianbin Wang , Lajos Hanzo

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is the key technology for long term evolution (LTE) and 5G. The information detection problem at the receiver side is in general difficult due to the imbalance of decoding complexity and decoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-20 Qian Chen , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu , Shan Cao

We address the problem of securing distributed storage systems against eavesdropping and adversarial attacks. An important aspect of these systems is node failures over time, necessitating, thus, a repair mechanism in order to maintain a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-28 Sameer Pawar , Salim El Rouayheb , Kannan Ramchandran

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…

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

Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into future wireless systems such as the fifth-generation (5G) cellular network is anticipated to bring significant benefits for both UAV and telecommunication industries. Generally speaking, UAVs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Qingqing Wu , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Scientific collaborations benefit from collaborative learning of distributed sources, but remain difficult to achieve when data are sensitive. In recent years, privacy preserving techniques have been widely studied to analyze distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Guanhong Miao , A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu

Physical layer security which safeguards data confidentiality based on the information-theoretic approaches has received significant research interest recently. The key idea behind physical layer security is to utilize the intrinsic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Yongpeng Wu , Ashish Khisti , Chengshan Xiao , Giuseppe Caire , Kai-Kit Wong , Xiqi Gao

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

Pilot contamination, defined as the interference during the channel estimation process due to reusing the same pilot sequences in neighboring cells, can severely degrade the performance of massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-05 L. Srikar Muppirisetty , Themistoklis Charalambous , Johnny Karout , Gabor Fodor , Henk Wymeersch

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

In this paper, we consider a fundamental problem in modern digital communications known as multi-input multi-output (MIMO) detection, which can be formulated as a complex quadratic programming problem subject to unit-modulus and discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Cheng Lu , Ya-Feng Liu , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Shuzhong Zhang

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems achieve high sum spectral efficiency by offering an order of magnitude increase in multiplexing gains. In time division duplexing systems, however, the reuse of uplink training pilots…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

Wireless surveillance, in which untrusted communications links are proactively monitored by legitimate agencies, has started to garner a lot of interest for enhancing the national security. In this paper, we propose a new cell-free massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Lajos Hanzo

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) enable multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmitters to modify the communication channels between the transmitters and receivers. In the presence of eavesdropping terminals, this degree of freedom…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Saba Asaad , Yifei Wu , Ali Bereyhi , Ralf R. Müller , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

In this letter, the use of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the physical layer security of downlink wireless communication is investigated. Assuming a single-antenna legitimate user and a multi-antenna eavesdropper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-07 Keming Feng , Xiao Li , Yu Han , Shi Jin , Yijian Chen