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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

In this paper, we address the problem of secure wireless information and power transfer in a large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (LS-MIMO) amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying system. The advantage of LS-MIMO relay is exploited to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Xiaoming Chen , Jian Chen , Tao Liu

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

We consider a single-cell downlink massive MIMO communication in the presence of an adversary capable of jamming and eavesdropping simultaneously. We show that massive MIMO communication is naturally resilient to no training-phase jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Y. Ozan Basciftci , C. Emre Koksal , Alexei Ashikhmin

This study investigates a robust reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system for secure wireless communication, in which a multi-antenna transmitter (Alice) sends confidential messages to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Rakesh Ranjan , Ahmad Sirojuddin , Manjesh K. Hanawal , Himanshu B. Mishra , Wan-Jen Huang ID

This work studies the problem of secrecy energy efficiency maximization in multi-user wireless networks aided by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, in which an eavesdropper overhears the uplink communication. A provably convergent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Robert Kuku Fotock , Agbotiname Lucky Imoize , Alessio Zappone , Marco Di Renzo , Roberto Garello

Extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays) have emerged as a promising technology to improve the spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution of future wireless systems. Different from existing works that mostly considered physical layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Tianyu Liu , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Yunpu Zhang , Shiqi Gong , Heng Liu , Guangchi Zhang

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

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

Low-Power Wide-Area Networks operating in the unlicensed bands are being deployed to connect a rapidly growing number of Internet-of-Things devices. While the unlicensed sub-GHz band offers favorable propagation for long-range connections,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Gilles Callebaut , Sara Gunnarsson , Andrea P. Guevara , Fredrik Tufvesson , Sofie Pollin , Liesbet Van der Perre , Anders J Johansson

Considering a heterogeneous network (HetNet) where both macro base station (BS) and small cell (SC) nodes are equipped with massive antennas, this paper studies the performance for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlinks when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongyu Dai , Xiaodai Dong , Hai Lin

This paper investigates physical layer security (PLS) in a movable antenna (MA)-assisted full-duplex (FD) system. In this system, an FD base station (BS) with multiple MAs for transmission and reception provides services for an uplink (UL)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Chenbo Wang , Wenyao Li , Lifeng Lin , Bingli Jiao

This paper considers a scenario in which a source-destination pair needs to establish a confidential connection against an external eavesdropper, aided by the interference generated by another source-destination pair that exchanges public…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Lingxiang Li , Athina P. Petropulu , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang

Holographic MIMO refers to a (possibly large) array with a large number of individually controlled and densely deployed antennas. The objective of this paper is to provide further insight into the use of closely spaced antennas in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Antonio Alberto D'Amico , Luca Sanguinetti

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is expected to be a vital component in future 5G systems. As such, there is a need for new modeling in order to investigate the performance of massive MIMO not only at the physical layer, but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Emma Fitzgerald , Michał Pióro , Fredrik Tufvesson

This work investigates the impact of the ever-present electromagnetic interference (EMI) on the achievable secrecy performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication systems. We characterize the end-to-end RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-17 José David Vega Sánchez , Georges Kaddoum , F. Javier López-Martínez

In this paper, we consider a cognitive radio network that consists of one cognitive base station (CBS) and multiple cognitive users (CUs) in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers, where CUs transmit their data packets to CBS under a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yulong Zou , Xianbin Wang , Weiming Shen

The existing research on physical layer security commonly assumes the number of eavesdropper antennas to be known. Although this assumption allows one to easily compute the achievable secrecy rate, it can hardly be realized in practice. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou , Thushara D. Abhayapala

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 paper investigates the impact of realistic propagation conditions on the achievable secrecy performance of multiple-input multiple-output systems in the presence of an eavesdropper. Specifically, we concentrate on the $\kappa$-$\mu$…