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This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided jamming technique for enabling physical layer keyless security in scenarios where the exact eavesdropper location is unknown. We assume that the unknown eavesdropper location is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Christantus O. Nnamani , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Mathini Sellathurai

Security attacks at the physical layer, in the form of radio jamming for denial of service, are an increasing threat in the Industry 4.0 scenarios. In this paper, we consider the problem of jamming detection in 5G-and-beyond communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Leonardo Chiarello , Paolo Baracca , Karthik Upadhya , Saeed R. Khosravirad , Thorsten Wild

The broadcasting nature of the wireless medium makes exposure to eavesdroppers a potential threat. Physical Layer Security (PLS) has been widely recognized as a promising security measure complementary to encryption. It has recently been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Parastoo Sadeghi , Faycal Bouhafs , Neda Aboutorab , Frank den Hartog

The inherent vulnerability of wireless communication necessitates strategies to enhance its security, particularly in the face of jamming attacks. This paper uses the collaborations of multiple sensing nodes (SNs) in the wireless network to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Amir Mehrabian , Georges Kaddoum

We address the resilience of future 6G MIMO communications by considering an uplink scenario where multiple legitimate transmitters try to communicate with a base station in the presence of an adversarial jammer. The jammer possesses full…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-15 Vlad C. Andrei , Xinyang Li , Ullrich J. Mönich , Holger Boche

This paper investigates the physical layer security of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-aided wireless network in the presence of full-duplex active eavesdropping. In this scenario, the RIS cooperates with the Base Station (BS) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Atefeh Zakeri , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

The physical-layer key generation is a lightweight technique to generate secret keys from wireless channels for resource-constrained Internet of things (IoT) applications. The security of key generation relies on spatial decorrelation,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Lu Yang , Yansong Gao , Junqing Zhang , Seyit Camtepe , Dhammika Jayalath

Unlike conventional anti-eavesdropping methods that always require additional energy or computing resources (e.g., in friendly jamming and cryptography-based solutions), this work proposes a novel anti-eavesdropping solution that comes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Nguyen Van Huynh , Nguyen Quang Hieu , Nam H. Chu , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Eryk Dutkiewicz

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) and bidirectional communications in smart grid are expected to improve smart grid capabilities and electricity management. Because of massive number of IoT devices in smart grid, size of the data to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-13 Neji Mensi , Danda B. Rawat , Elyes Balti

We study the problem of joint communication and detection of wiretapping on an optical fiber from a quantum perspective. Our system model describes a communication link that is capable of transmitting data under normal operating conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Pere Munar-Vallespir , Janis Nötzel , Florian Seitz

We explore the additional security obtained by noise at the physical layer in a wiretap channel model setting. Security enhancements at the physical layer have been proposed recently using a secrecy metric based on the degrees of freedom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-24 W. K. Harrison , J. Almeida , S. W. McLaughlin , J. Barros

We consider the problem of stealthy communication over a multipath network in the presence of an active adversary. The multipath network consists of multiple parallel noiseless links, and the adversary is able to eavesdrop and jam a subset…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Jianhan Song , Qiaosheng Zhang , Swanand Kadhe , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

We investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided wireless surveillance system. In this system, a monitor not only receives signal from suspicious transmitter via a RIS-enhanced legitimate surveillance (LS) link but also…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Shuying Lin , Yulong Zou , Zhiyang Li , Tong Wu , Eduard E. Bahingayi , Le-Nam Tran

Underwater communication networks are increasingly popularized by various important maritime applications. However, this also leads to an increased threat landscape. This letter presents the first study that considers jamming attacks by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Waqas Aman , Saif Al-Kuwari , Marwa Qaraqe

Despite progress in semantic communication (SemCom), research on SemCom security is still in its infancy. To bridge this gap, we propose a general covert SemCom framework for wireless networks, reducing eavesdropping risk. Our approach…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yansheng Liu , Jinbo Wen , Zongyao Zhang , Kun Zhu , Yang Zhang , Jiangtian Nie , Jiawen Kang

The reliability and transmission distance are generally limited for the wireless communications due to the severe channel fading. As an effective way to resist the channel fading, cooperative relaying is usually adopted in wireless networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Hao Niu , Yao Sun , Kaoru Sezaki

This correspondence studies the secrecy communication of the single-input single-output multi-eavesdropper (SISOME) channel with multiple single-antenna jammers, where the jammers and eavesdroppers are distributed according to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Chao Wang , Hui-Ming Wang

Security threats such as jamming and route manipulation can have significant consequences on the performance of modern wireless networks. To increase the efficacy and stealthiness of such threats, a number of extremely challenging,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Liyang Zhang , Francesco Restuccia , Tommaso Melodia , Scott M. Pudlewski

We study the Gaussian MIMO wiretap channel with a transmitter, a legitimate receiver, an eavesdropper and an external helper, each equipped with multiple antennas. The transmitter sends confidential messages to its intended receiver, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 S. Ali. A. Fakoorian , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Quantum communication in general helps deter potential eavesdropping in the course of transmission of bits to enable secure communication between two or more parties. In this paper, we propose a novel quasi-deterministic secure quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Sujan Vijayaraj , S. Balakrishnan , K. Senthilnathan