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In this paper, we study a diamond-relay channel where the source is connected to $M$ relays through orthogonal links and the relays transmit to the destination over a wireless multiple-access channel in the presence of an eavesdropper. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Si-Hyeon Lee , Ashish Khisti

We study a multi-antenna broadcast channel with two legitimate receivers and an external eavesdropper. We assume that the channel matrix of the eavesdropper is unknown to the legitimate terminals but satisfies a maximum rank constraint. As…

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

Near-field beamfocusing with extremely large aperture arrays can effectively enhance physical layer security. Nevertheless, even small estimation errors of the eavesdropper's location may cause a pronounced focal shift, resulting in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shicong Liu , Xianghao Yu , Robert Schober

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

Eavesdroppers of wireless signals want to infer as much as possible regarding the transmitter (Tx). Popular methods to minimize information leakage to the eavesdropper include covert communication, directional modulation, and beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-07 Georgios Chrysanidis , Antonios Argyriou , Le-Nam Tran , Yanming Zhang , Yanwei Liu

Conventional beamforming is based on channel estimation, which can be computationally intensive and inaccurate when the antenna array is large. In this work, we study the outage probability of positioning-assisted beamforming systems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Bingcheng Zhu , Zaichen Zhang , Julian Cheng

In this paper, we investigate how constraints on the randomization in the encoding process affect the secrecy rates achievable over wiretap channels. In particular, we characterize the secrecy capacity with a rate-limited local source of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Matthieu R. Bloch , Joerg Kliewer

Orthogonal blinding based schemes for wireless physical layer security aim to achieve secure communication by injecting noise into channels orthogonal to the main channel and corrupting the eavesdropper's signal reception. These methods,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yanjun Pan , Yao Zheng , Ming Li

Transmit beamforming for underwater acoustic communication is challenging because it requires perfect knowledge of the channel to the receiver in advance. In practice, channel estimates must be learned through feedback and are often noisy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Diego A. Cuji , Andrew C. Singer , Milica Stojanovic

We consider the secure transmission of information over an ergodic fading channel in the presence of an eavesdropper. Our eavesdropper can be viewed as the wireless counterpart of Wyner's wiretapper. The secrecy capacity of such a system is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Praveen Kumar Gopala , Lifeng Lai , Hesham El Gamal

Millimeter wave offers a sensible solution to the capacity crunch faced by 5G wireless communications. This paper comprehensively studies physical layer security in a multi-input single-output (MISO) millimeter wave system where multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Ying Ju , Hui-Ming Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng , Qinye Yin , Moon Ho Lee

A Gaussian multiple-input multiple-output wiretap channel in which the eavesdropper and legitimate receiver are equipped with arbitrary numbers of antennas and the transmitter has two antennas is studied in this paper. Under an average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Mojtaba Vaezi , Wonjae Shin , H. Vincent Poor

We study the problem of securely estimating the states of an unstable dynamical system subject to nonstochastic disturbances. The estimator obtains all its information through an uncertain channel which is subject to nonstochastic…

One of the great potentials to improve the confidentiality in mmWave/THz at the physical layer of technical communication, measured by the secrecy rate, lies in the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). However, an important…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Chu Li , Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin

Secret key generation at the physical layer is expected to be a fundamental enabler for next-generation networks. We consider a network where the user equipment is a drone and propose a novel secret key generation solution when the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Mattia Piana , Stefano Tomasin

This work investigates the physical layer security of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA)-aided integrated communication and sensing (ISAC) systems. The ISAC base station (BS) transmits signals to communicate with users in an eavesdropped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Qian Dan , Hongjiang Lei , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan

Movable antenna (MA) technology is highly promising for improving communication performance, due to its advantage of flexibly adjusting positions of antennas to reconfigure channel conditions. In this paper, we investigate MAs-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Donghui Xu , Kui Xu , Jiangbo Si , Yunlong Cai , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This paper studies the beamforming design problem of a multi-user downlink network, assuming imperfect channel state information known to the base station. In this scenario, the base station is equipped with multiple antennas, and each user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Pu Zhao , Meng Zhang , Hui Yu , Hanwen Luo , Wen Chen

This paper investigates beamforming schemes designed to minimize the symbol error probability (SEP) for an authorized user while guaranteeing that the likelihood of an eavesdropper correctly recovering symbols remains below a predefined…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Nam Nguyen , An Vuong , Thuan Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen

A near-field secure transmission framework is proposed. Employing the hybrid beamforming architecture, a multi-antenna base station (BS) transmits confidential information to a multi-antenna legitimate user (U) against a multi-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Jian Chen