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Reliable and secure communication is an important aspect of modern fiber optic communication. In this work we consider a multi-mode fiber (MMF) channel wiretapped by an eavesdropper. We assume the transmitter knows the legitimate channel,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Eduard Jorswieck , Andrew Lonnstrom , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Stefan Rothe , Juergen W. Czarske

The goal of physical layer security (PLS) is to make use of the properties of the physical layer, including the wireless communication medium and the transceiver hardware, to enable critical aspects of secure communications. In particular,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Mahdi Shakiba-Herfeh , Arsenia Chorti , H. Vince Poor

Performance of Free Space Optical (FSO) communication system is affected by atmospheric turbulences and pointing errors. These effects can easily be mitigated by adapting natural system parameters such as wavelength. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-27 Mohammad Ali Amirabadi

The field of space communications is the realm of communication technologies where diffraction and atmospheric effects, both of which contribute to loss and noise, become overriding. The pertinent questions here are how and at which rate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Masoud Ghalaii , Stefano Pirandola

Physical layer security has been considered as an important security approach in wireless communications to protect legitimate transmission from passive eavesdroppers. This paper investigates the physical layer security of a wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Wenfei Liu , Ming Li , Xiaowen Tian , Zihuan Wang , Qian Liu

In this paper, we investigate the modeling and design of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted optical communication systems which are deployed to relax the line-of-sight (LOS) requirement in multi-link free space optical (FSO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Hedieh Ajam , Marzieh Najafi , Vahid Jamali , Bernhard Schmauss , Robert Schober

Terrestrial free-space optical (FSO) links are an ideal candidate to extend the bandwidth continuum offered by fiber networks, yet at the expense of unfavorable cost credentials due to highly complex opto-mechanical setups. As a response to…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-24 Florian Honz , Bernhard Schrenk

Free-space optical (FSO) communication is emerging as a key backhaul technology for next-generation vertical heterogeneous networks (VHetNets), whose architecture spans satellites, high-altitude platform stations (HAPS), unmanned aerial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Eylem Erdogan , Mohammed Elamassie , Ibrahim Altunbas , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Murat Uysal , Halim Yanikomeroglu

We consider a drone-based communication network, where several drones hover above an area and serve as mobile remote radio heads for a large number of mobile users. We assume that the drones employ free space optical (FSO) links for…

Time and frequency transfer lies at the heart of the field of metrology. Compared to current microwave dissemination such as GPS, optical domain dissemination can provide more than one order of magnitude in terms of higher accuracy, which…

Covert communication is the undetected transmission of sensitive information over a communication channel. In wireless communication systems, channel impairments such as signal fading present challenges in the effective implementation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amir Reza Ramtin , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley

We consider the problem of securely and robustly embedding covert messages into an image-based diffusion model's output. The sender and receiver want to exchange the maximum amount of information possible per diffusion sampled image while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Luke A. Bauer , Wenxuan Bao , Vincent Bindschaedler

We report optical measurements of the spectral width of open transmission channels in a three-dimensional diffusive medium. The light transmission through a sample is enhanced by efficiently coupling to open transmission channels using…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-09 Jeroen Bosch , Sebastianus A. Goorden , Allard P. Mosk

In free-space optical satellite networks (FSOSNs), satellites can have different laser inter-satellite link (LISL) ranges for connectivity. Greater LISL ranges can reduce network latency of the path but can also result in an increase in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Jintao Liang , Aizaz U. Chaudhry , Eylem Erdogan , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Peng Hu , Khaled Ahmed , Stephane Martel

This paper presents a comprehensive physical layer security (PLS) framework for fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided short-packet communications under the variable block-correlation model (VBCM). We consider a downlink wiretap scenario in which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jianchao Zheng , Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Baiyang Liu , Runyu Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Kin-Fai Tong , Sumei Sun

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

The physical layer security of uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is analyzed. A stochastic geometry approach is applied to analyze the coverage probability and the effective secrecy throughput (EST) of the kth NOMA user, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Gerardo Gomez , Francisco J. Martin-Vega , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Yuanwei Liu , Maged Elkashlan

This paper exploits the potential of physical layer security in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) aided two-tier heterogeneous networks (HetNets). We focus on the downlink secure transmission in the presence of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Yansha Deng , Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Arumugam Nallanathan , Maged Elkashlan

This work proposes an electrically small 3D beamforming antenna for PHYsical Layer (PHY-layer) security. The antenna comprises two layers of stacked patch structures and is a five-mode five-port MIMO system operating around 1.85 GHz with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-23 Abel Zandamela , Nicola Marchetti , Adam Narbudowicz

For wireless communications using linear large-scale antenna arrays, we define a receiving coordinate system and parameterization strategy to facilitate the study of the impact of three-dimensional position and rotation of the arrays on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Liqin Ding , Erik G. Ström , Jiliang Zhang