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Covert communication allows us to transmit messages in such a way that it is not possible to detect that the communication is occurring. This provides protection in situations where knowledge that people are talking to each other may be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Ryan Amiri

Existing communication systems exhibit inherent limitations in translating theory to practice when handling the complexity of optimization for emerging wireless applications with high degrees of freedom. Deep learning has a strong potential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Tugba Erpek , Timothy J. O'Shea , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Yi Shi , T. Charles Clancy

In this paper, we consider the problem of wireless channel prediction, where we are interested in predicting the channel quality at unvisited locations in an area of interest, based on a small number of prior received power measurements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Chitra R. Karanam , Yasamin Mostofi

In this paper, secure transmission of information over fading broadcast channels is studied in the presence of statistical queueing constraints. Effective capacity is employed as a performance metric to identify the secure throughput of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-02 Deli Qiao , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

As wireless has disrupted communications, wireless will also disrupt the delivery of energy. Future wireless networks will be equipped with (radiative) wireless power transfer (WPT) capability and exploit radio waves to carry both energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Bruno Clerckx , Junghoon Kim , Kae Won Choi , Dong In Kim

The security of the Internet of Things (IoT) is receiving considerable interest as the low power constraints and complexity features of many IoT devices are limiting the use of conventional cryptographic techniques. This article provides an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Junqing Zhang , Trung Q. Duong , Roger Woods , Alan Marshall

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless medium, wireless communication is extremely vulnerable to eavesdropping attack. Physical-layer security is emerging as a new paradigm to prevent the eavesdropper from interception by exploiting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yulong Zou , Xianbin Wang , Weiming Shen

This article considers the performance of wireless communication systems that utilize reconfigurable or pattern-dynamic antennas. The focus is on finite-state channels with memory and performance is assessed in terms of real-time behavior.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Santhosh Kumar , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Gregory H. Huff

We consider covert communication using a queuing timing channel in the presence of a warden. The covert message is encoded using the inter-arrival times of the packets, and the legitimate receiver and the warden observe the inter-departure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Pritam Mukherjee , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the problem of covert communication over wireless adhoc networks in which (roughly) $n$ legitimate nodes (LNs) and $n^{\kappa}$ for $0<\kappa<1$ non-communicating warden nodes (WNs) are randomly distributed in a square of unit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Kang-Hee Cho , Si-Hyeon Lee , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Due to the short and bursty incoming messages, channel access activities in a wireless random access system are often fractional. The lack of frequent data support consequently makes it difficult for the receiver to estimate and track the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Zheng Wang , Jie Luo

The reciprocity of channel state information (CSI) collected by two devices communicating over a wireless channel has been leveraged to provide security solutions to resource-limited IoT devices. Despite the extensive research that has been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Nora Basha , Bechir Hamdaoui

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

We present a new type of wireless access infras-tructure consisting of a fabric of dispersed electronic circuitsand antennas that collectively function as a massive, distributed antenna array. We have chosen to name this new wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-17 Liesbet Van der Perre , Erik G. Larsson , Fredrik Tufvesson , Lieven De Strycker , Emil Björnson , Ove Edfors

In this work, a class of information theoretic secrecy problems is addressed where the eavesdropper channel states are completely unknown to the legitimate parties. In particular, MIMO wiretap channel models are considered where the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-28 Xiang He , Aylin Yener

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), known as Wi-Fi, have become an essential service in university environments that helps staff, students and guests to access connectivity to the Internet from their mobile devices. Apart from the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Farhana Binte Kamrul Easha , Robert Abbas , Matthew Daley

This paper investigates the impact of deploying the fluid antenna system (FAS) on the performance of covert communications. In particular, we focus on a scenario where a transmitter seeks to covertly communicate with a receiver, while a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Masoud Kaveh , Riku Jantti , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

In wireless ad hoc networks, distributed nodes can collaboratively form an antenna array for long-distance communications to achieve high energy efficiency. In recent work, Ochiai, et al., have shown that such collaborative beamforming can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Athina P. Petropulu , Lun Dong , H. Vincent Poor

Recent regulatory changes proposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permitting unlicensed use of television white space (TVWS) channels present new opportunities for designing wireless networks that make efficient use of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Neelakantan Nurani Krishnan , Gokul Sridharan , Ivan Seskar , Narayan Mandayam

In this chapter, the state of the art of in vivo wireless channel characterization has been presented. Various studies described in the literature are dedicated to the in vivo communication channel, and they consider different parameters in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-25 Ali Fatih Demir , Z. Esat Ankarali , Y. Liu , Q. H. Abbasi , K. Qaraqe , E. Serpedin , Huseyin Arslan , R. D. Gitlin