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The physical-layer security issue in the multiple non-regenerative wireless-powered relay (WPR) networks is investigated in this letter, where the idle relay is treated as a potential eavesdropper. To guarantee secure communication, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Mingxiong Zhao , Xiangfeng Wang , Suili Feng

Deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for efficient and robust information transmission. However, its intrinsic characteristics also pose new security challenges, notably an increased vulnerability…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Kaiyi Chi , Yinghui He , Qianqian Yang , Yuanchao Shu , Zhiqin Wang , Jun Luo , Jiming Chen

We consider the communication scenario where a source-destination pair wishes to keep the information secret from a relay node despite wanting to enlist its help. For this scenario, an interesting question is whether the relay node should…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xiang He , Aylin Yener

In this paper, we investigate an opportunistic relay and jammer scheme along with relay selection algorithms based on the secrecy rate criterion in multiple-input multiple-output buffer-aided down link relay networks, which consist of one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 X. Luo , R. C. de Lamare

In this paper, we investigate the physical-layer security of a multi-user multi-eavesdropper cognitive radio system, which is composed of multiple cognitive users (CUs) transmitting to a common cognitive base station (CBS), while multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yulong Zou , Xuelong Li , Ying-Chang Liang

We investigate the problem of secure communication over parallel relay channel in the presence of a passive eavesdropper. We consider a four terminal relay-eavesdropper channel which consists of multiple relay-eavesdropper channels as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zohaib Hassan Awan , Abdellatif Zaidi , Luc Vandendorpe

With growing popularity of mobile Internet, providing secure wireless services has become a critical issue. Physical layer security (PHY-security) has been recognized as an effective means to enhance wireless security by exploiting wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaoming Chen , Caijun Zhong , Chau Yuen , Hsiao-Hwa Chen

This work studies the problem of secure connection in cooperative wireless communication with two relay strategies, decode-and-forward (DF) and randomize-and-forward (RF). The four-node scenario and cellular scenario are considered. For the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Jianhua Mo , Meixia Tao , Yuan Liu

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted spectrum sharing underlay cognitive radio (CR) wiretap channel (WTC) is studied, and we aim at enhancing the secrecy rate of secondary user in this channel subject to total…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Limeng Dong , Hui-Ming Wang , Haitao Xiao

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide wireless access services to terrestrial users without geographical limitations and will become an essential part of the future communication system. However, the openness of wireless channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongjiang Lei , Jiacheng Jiang , Haosi Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Imran Shafique Ansari , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We propose a comprehensive framework exploiting the polarization sensitive array (PLA) to improve the physical layer security of wireless communications. More specifically, the polarization difference among signals is utilized to improve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Shiqi Gong , Chengwen Xing , Sheng Chen , Zesong Fei

Data at the physical layer transmits via media such as copper cable, fiber optic, or wireless. Physical attack vectors exist that challenge data confidentiality and availability. Protocols and encryption standards help obfuscate but often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Alon Hillel-Tuch

Two emerging technologies, cognitive radio (CR) and free-space optical (FSO) communication, have created much interest both in academia and industry recently as they can fully utilize the spectrum while providing cost-efficient secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Eylem Erdogan , Ibrahim Altunbas , Nihat Kabaoglu , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Channel Knowledge Map (CKM) is an emerging data-driven toolbox that captures our awareness of the wireless channel and enables efficient communication and resource allocation beyond the state of the art. In this work, we consider CKM for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Ladan Khaloopour , Matthias Hollick , Vahid Jamali

Dual-functional radar communication (DFRC) system has recently attracted significant academic attentions as an enabling solution for realizing radar-communication spectrum sharing. During the DFRC transmission, however, the critical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Nanchi Su , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros

This paper investigates a machine learning-based power allocation design for secure transmission in a cognitive radio (CR) network. In particular, a neural network (NN)-based approach is proposed to maximize the secrecy rate of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Miao Zhang , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam , Yanqun Tang , Wei Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Octavia A. Dobre

Owing to the vulnerability of relay-assisted and device-to-device (D2D) communications, improving wireless security from a physical layer signal processing perspective is attracting increasing interest. Hence we address the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Jiaxin Yang , Qiang Li , Benoit Champagne , Yulong Zou , Lajos Hanzo

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

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute a strong candidate physical-layer technology for the $6$-th Generation (6G) of wireless networks, offering new design degrees of freedom for efficiently addressing demanding performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , George C. Alexandropoulos

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless medium, wireless communication is highly vulnerable to eavesdropping attack. Traditionally, secure wireless data transmission has relied on cryptographic techniques at the network layer which incur…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Binh Van Nguyen , Hyoyoung Jung , Kiseon Kim