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To improve national security, government agencies have long been committed to enforcing powerful surveillance measures on suspicious individuals or communications. In this paper, we consider a wireless legitimate surveillance system, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Caijun Zhong , Xin Jiang , Fengzhong Qu , Zhaoyang Zhang

The problem of secure communication in Amplify-and-Forward (AF) relay networks with multiple eavesdroppers is considered. Assuming that a receiver (destination or eavesdropper) can decode a message only if the received SNR is above a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Siddhartha Sarma , Samar Agnihotri , Joy Kuri

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

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

Two of the main problems to achieve ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) are related to instantaneous channel state information (I-CSI) acquisition and the coexistence with other service modes such as enhanced mobile broadband…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Dian Echevarría Pérez , Onel L. Alcaraz López , Hirley Alves

Traditional physical layer secure beamforming is achieved via precoding before signal transmission using channel state information (CSI). However, imperfect CSI will compromise the performance with imperfect beamforming and potential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Tongyang Xu , Zhongxiang Wei , Tianhua Xu , Gan Zheng

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

For autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) secure communications, traditional designs based on fixed position antenna (FPA) lack sufficient spatial degrees of freedom (DoF), which leaves the line-of-sight-dominated AAV links vulnerable to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Yingjie Wu , Junshan Luo , Weiyu Chen , Shilian Wang , Fanggang Wang , Haiyang Ding

An artificial-noise (AN)-aided beamformer specific to correlated main and wiretap channels is designed in this paper. We consider slow-fading multiple-input-single-output (MISO) wiretap channels with a passive single-antenna eavesdropper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Shuai Han , Sai Xu , Weixiao Meng , Lei He

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

To achieve a better effect of interference on eavesdropper with an enhanced security, a secure precise jamming (PJ) and communication (SPJC) is proposed and its basic idea is to force the transmit energy of artificial noise (AN) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-01 Feng Shu , Lingling Zhu , Wenlong Cai , Tong Shen , Jinyong Lin , Shuo Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang

A continuous-aperture array (CAPA)-based secure transmission framework is proposed to enhance physical layer security. Continuous current distributions, or beamformers, are designed to maximize the secrecy transmission rate under a power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Boqun Zhao , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

In this letter, we study the robust beamforming problem for the multi-antenna wireless broadcasting system with simultaneous information and power transmission, under the assumption of imperfect channel state information (CSI) at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Zhengzheng Xiang , Meixia Tao

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) has become a crucial enabling technology for 5G and beyond, providing previously unheard-of increases in energy and spectrum efficiency. It is still difficult to guarantee secure communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Nipun Agarwal

In this paper, collaborative use of relays to form a beamforming system and provide physical-layer security is investigated. In particular, amplify-and-forward (AF) relay beamforming designs under total and individual relay power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Junwei Zhang , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

This paper deals with joint source and relay beamforming (BF) design for an amplify-and-forward (AF) multi-antenna multirelay network. Considering that the channel state information (CSI) from relays to destination is imperfect, we aim to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Hongying Tang , Wen Chen , Jun Li , Haibin Wan

This paper studies physical-layer secure transmissions from a transmitter to a legitimate receiver against an eavesdropper over slow fading channels, taking into account the impact of finite blocklength secrecy coding. A comprehensive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

This paper tackles the fundamental passive eavesdropping problem in modern wireless communications in which the location and the channel state information (CSI) of the attackers are unknown. In this regard, we propose deploying an unmanned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Ali Behfarnia , Vuk Marojevic

In this paper, we consider joint antenna allocation and transmit beamforming design in secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. A dual-function base station (DFBS) aims to securely deliver messages to a single-antenna…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yunxiang Shi , Lixin Li , Wensheng Lin , Wei Liang , Zhu Han

In this paper, we study beamforming in decode-and-forward (DF) relaying using multiple relays, where the source node sends a secret message as well as a non-secret message to the destination node in the presence of multiple non-colluding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Sanjay Vishwakarma , A. Chockalingam