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Heterogeneous ultra-dense networks enable ultra-high data rates and ultra-low latency through the use of dense sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave (mmWave) small cells with different antenna configurations. Existing work has widely studied…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Shi Jin , Gan Zheng , Robert W. Heath

This paper studies the physical layer security in a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) system, which communicates with downlink cellular users and tracks radar targets simultaneously. Here, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Nanchi Su , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros

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

Theoretical studies on physical layer security often adopt the secrecy outage probability as the performance metric for wireless communications over quasi-static fading channels. The secrecy outage probability has two limitations from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Physical Layer Security (PLS) is an emerging concept in the field of secrecy for wireless communications that can be used alongside cryptography to prevent unauthorized devices from eavesdropping a legitimate transmission. It offers low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Leonardo Barbosa da Silva , Evelio Martín Garcia Fernández , Ândrei Camponogara

Current security techniques can be implemented either by requiring a secret key exchange or depending on assumptions about the communication channels. In this paper, we show that, by using a physical layer technique known as artificial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Shuiyin Liu , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

This paper studies secure layered video transmission in a multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) beamforming downlink communication system. The power allocation algorithm design is formulated as a non-convex optimization problem for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Hussein Alnuweiri

This article investigates the physical-layer security of cognitive radio (CR) networks, which are vulnerable to various newly arising attacks targeting on the weaknesses of CR communications and networking. We first review a range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yulong Zou , Jia Zhu , Liuqing Yang , Ying-Chang Liang , Yu-Dong Yao

Wireless information and power transfer (WIPT) enables more sustainable and resilient communications owing to the fact that it avoids frequent battery charging and replacement. However, it also suffers from possible information interception…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaoming Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Hsiao-Hwa Chen

Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology is going to be a viable alternative for future generation wireless broadband services in order to meet the striving requirements for throughput and system robustness. In Long Term Evolution…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Sunil Joshi , Deepak Gupta

This paper studies the performance of physical layer security (PLS) in a multi-user hybrid heterogeneous visible light communication (VLC) and radio frequency (RF) wireless communication system with simultaneous lightwave information and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Tuan A. Hoang , Thanh V. Pham , Chuyen T. Nguyen

A significant burden on wireless networks is brought by the uploading of user-generated contents to the Internet by means of applications such as the social media. To cope with this mobile data tsunami, we develop a novel MIMO network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques allow for multiplexing and/or diversity gain, and will be widely deployed in future wireless systems. In this paper, we propose a MIMO-assisted channel-based authentication scheme, exploiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-07-29 Liang Xiao , Larry Greenstein , Narayan Mandayam , Wade Trappe

Cooperation between wireless network nodes is a promising technique for improving the physical layer security of wireless transmission, in terms of secrecy capacity, in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. While existing physical layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-29 Walid Saad , Zhu Han , Tamer Basar , Merouane Debbah , Are Hjørungnes

In this paper we address a sum secrecy rate maximization problem for a multi-carrier and MIMO communication system. We consider the case that the receiver is capable of full-duplex (FD) operation and simultaneously sends jamming signal to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Tianyu Yang , Omid Taghizadeh , Rudolf Mathar

In a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) consisting of $M$ tiers of densely-deployed base stations (BSs), consider that each of the BSs in the HetNet that are associated with multiple users is able to simultaneously schedule and serve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Chun-Hung Liu , Di-Chun Liang , Po-Chia Chen , Jie-Ru Yang

This paper investigates the secure resource allocation for a downlink integrated sensing and communication system with multiple legal users and potential eavesdroppers. In the considered model, the base station (BS) simultaneously transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yinchao Yang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Wei Xu , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this paper, we present a physical-layer security scheme that exploits artificial noise (AN) to secure the downlink legitimate communications and transfer energy to nodes operating under non-cooperative non-orthogonal multiple-access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Ahmed Badawy , Ahmed El Shafie

In future practical deployments of massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems, the number of radio frequency (RF) chains at the base stations (BSs) may be much smaller than the number of BS antennas to reduce the overall expenditure.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jun Zhu , Wei Xu , Ning Wang

Massive MIMO is one of the salient techniques for achieving high spectral efficiency in next generation wireless networks. Recently, a combined strategy of the massive MIMO and the artificial noise (AN), namely, {\it AN assisted massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Changick Song