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A wireless sensor network (WSN) typically consists of base stations and a large number of wireless sensors. The sensory data gathered from the whole network at a certain time snapshot can be visualized as an image. As a result, information…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Rola Al-Sharif , Christophe Guyeux , Yousra Ahmed Fadil , Abdallah Makhoul , Ali Jaber

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

The rapid evolution of communication technologies and the emergence of sixth-generation (6G) networks have introduced unprecedented opportunities for ultra-reliable, low-latency, and energy-efficient communication. However, the integration…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Masoud Kaveh , Kai-Kit Wong , Diego Martin , Riku Jantti , Zheng Yan

The performance of physical layer secrecy approach in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-enabled heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is analyzed in this paper. A $K$-tier multi-cell HetNet is considered, comprising NOMA adopted in all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Elmira Shahraki , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Hengameh Keshavarz

In this letter, we consider the problem of detecting a high dimensional signal based on compressed measurements with physical layer secrecy guarantees. We assume that the network operates in the presence of an eavesdropper who intends to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Bhavya Kailkhura , Sijia Liu , Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical-layer security has attracted increasing concerns from both academia and industry. Artificial noise (AN), as one of the promising physical-layer security techniques, is capable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Hong Niu , Yue Xiao , Xia Lei , Jiangong Chen , Zhihan Xiao , Mao Li , Chau Yuen

Channels of satellite communication are usually modeled as Rician fading channels with very large Rician factor or Gaussian channels. Therefore, when a legitimate user is close to an eavesdropping user, the legitimate channel is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Shuai Han , Xiangxue Tai , Weixiao Meng , Cheng Li

This thesis focuses on the wireless security in the physical layer with beamforming technique. One of the emerging areas is the security enhancement in the physical layer, which exploits the intrinsic properties of the wireless medium.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Yuanrui Zhang

Movable antennas (MAs) have drawn increasing attention in wireless communications due to their capability to create favorable channel conditions via local movement within a confined region. In this letter, we investigate its application in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Xuanlin Shen , Xin Wei , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang , Boyu Ning

Physical layer security is a field of study that continues to gain importance over time. It encompasses a range of algorithms applicable to various aspects of communication systems. While research in the physical layer has predominantly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Pol Henarejos , Ana I. Pérez-Neira

Due to the malicious attacks in wireless networks, physical layer security has attracted increasing concerns from both academia and industry. The research on physical layer security mainly focuses either on the secrecy capacity/achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Dong Wang , Bo Bai , Wenbo Zhao , Zhu Han

A common approach for introducing security at the physical layer is to rely on the channel variations of the wireless environment. This type of approach is not always suitable for wireless networks where the channel remains static for most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Mohammad Iftekhar Husain , Suyash Mahant , Ramalingam Sridhar

In this paper, we study the benefits of full-duplex (FD) receiver jamming in enhancing the physical-layer security of a two-tier decentralized wireless network with each tier deployed with a large number of pairs of a single-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Qian Yang , Moon Ho Lee

An alternative or supplementary approach named as physical layer security has been proposed to afford an extra security layer on top of the conventional cryptography technique. In this paper, an overview of secrecy performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Long Kong , Yun Ai , Lei Lei , Georges Kaddoum , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

In this work, we consider the use of buffer-aided relays, linear precoding techniques and multiple antennas for physical-layer security in wireless networks. We develop relay selection algorithms to improve the secrecy-rate performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Xiaotao Lu , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

Several years ago, wireless sensor networks were used only by the military. These networks, which have many uses and are subject to limitations, the most important of which is the energy constraint, this energy constraint creates the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Ali Taghavirashidizadeh , Arash Bahram Zarei , Arman Farsi

In this work, novel physical layer security (PLS) schemes are proposed for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) to secure both data and pilots. The majority of previous studies focus on only securing the data without…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Salah Eddine Zegrar , Haji M. Furqan , Huseyin Arslan

Over the past decade, many works on the modeling of wireless networks using stochastic geometry have been proposed. Results about probability of coverage, throughput or mean interference, have been provided for a wide variety of networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Alexandre Mouradian

The wireless medium contains domain-specific information that can be used to complement and enhance traditional security mechanisms. In this paper we propose ways to exploit the fact that, in a typically rich scattering environment, the…

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

A pioneering secure transmission scheme is proposed, which harnesses movable antennas (MAs) to optimize antenna positions for augmenting the physical layer security. Particularly, an MA-enabled secure wireless system is considered, where a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Xiaoming She , Chongjun Ouyang , Peng Chen