English
Related papers

Related papers: Physical-Layer Security for Spectrum Sharing Syste…

200 papers

In this work, we investigate the physical layer security (PLS) of ambient backscatter communication non-orthogonal multiple access (AmBC-NOMA) networks where non-colluding eavesdroppers (Eves) are randomly distributed. In the proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Xinyue Pei , Xingwei Wang , Min Huang , Yingyang Chen , Xiaofan Li , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

In this paper, the secrecy of a cooperative system consisting of a single source, relay, destination and eavesdropper is analyzed. The threshold-selection decode-and-forward relay is considered, where the relay can correctly decode and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-05 C. Kundu , T. M. N. Ngatched , O. A. Dobre

Radar detection and communication can be operated simultaneously in joint radar-communication (JRC) system. In this paper, we propose a bistatic JRC system which is applicable in multi-path environments. Basing on a novel joint waveform, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-01 Yuan Quan , Longfei Shi , Jialei Liu , Jiazhi Ma

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communications have drawn significant attention recently. We study the physical layer security of the downlink RIS-aided transmission framework for randomly located users in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Qiang Sun , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Due to the broadcast nature of radio propagation, the wireless transmission can be readily overheard by unauthorized users for interception purposes and is thus highly vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks. To this end, physical-layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yulong Zou , Jia Zhu , Xianbin Wang , Victor C. M. Leung

In this paper, we investigate the physical-layer security of a multi-user multi-eavesdropper cognitive radio system, which is composed of multiple cognitive users (CUs) transmitting to a common cognitive base station (CBS), while multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yulong Zou , Xuelong Li , Ying-Chang Liang

This paper considers secrecy of a three node cooperative wireless system in the presence of a passive eavesdropper. The threshold-selection decode-and-forward (DF) relay is considered, which can decode the source message correctly only if a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-05 Chinmoy Kundu , Sarbani Ghose , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Octavia A. Dobre , Trung Q. Duong , Ranjan Bose

In this work, we investigate the impact of two cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based jammers on the secrecy performance of a ground wireless network in the presence of an eavesdropper. For that purpose, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-30 X. A. Flores Cabezas , D. P. Moya Osorio , M. Latva-aho

Physical layer security has been recently recognized as a promising new design paradigm to provide security in wireless networks. In addition to the existing conventional cryptographic methods, physical layer security exploits the dynamics…

In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security of a full-duplex base station (BS) aided system in the worst case, where an uplink transmitter (UT) and a downlink receiver (DR) are both equipped with a single antenna, while a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Zhengmin Kong , Shaoshi Yang , Die Wang , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided underlay cognitive radio network is investigated. An RIS is utilized to improve the secondary network (SN) reliability and robustness while simultaneously increasing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Majid H. Khoshafa , Telex M. N. Ngatchede , Mohamed H. Ahmed

Near-field spherical wavefronts enable spotlight-like beam focusing to mitigate unintended energy leakage, creating new opportunities for physical-layer security (PLS). However, under hybrid analog-digital (HAD) antenna architectures,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiasi Zhou , Huiyun Xia , Chuan Wu , Chintha Tellambura

In this paper, we consider a distributed joint sensing and communication (DJSC) system in which multiple radar sensors are deployed. Each sensor is equipped with a sensing function and a communication function, and thus it is a JSC node.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Trung Thanh Nguyen , Khaled Elbassioni , Nguyen Cong Luong , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim

In this paper, we investigate the secure rate-splitting for the two-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channel with imperfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) and a multiple-antenna jammer, where each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Tong Zhang , Dongsheng Chen , Na Li , Yufan Zhuang , Bojie Lv , Rui Wang

Passive eavesdropping compromises confidentiality in wireless networks, especially in resource-constrained environments where heavyweight cryptography is impractical. Physical layer security (PLS) exploits channel randomness and spatial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yifan Zhang , Yishan Yang , Riku Jäntti , Zheng Yan , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Wireless networks with the consideration of social relationships among network nodes are highly appealing for lots of important data communication services. Ensuring the security of such networks is of great importance to facilitate their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Yuanyu Zhang , Yulong Shen , Hua Wang , Xiaohong Jiang

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless medium, wireless communication is extremely vulnerable to eavesdropping attack. Physical-layer security is emerging as a new paradigm to prevent the eavesdropper from interception by exploiting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yulong Zou , Xianbin Wang , Weiming Shen

The integration of sensing and communication enables wireless communication systems to serve environment-aware applications. In this paper, we propose to leverage sensing to enhance physical layer security (PLS) in multiuser communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Dongfang Xu , Yiming Xu , Zhiqiang Wei , Shenghui Song , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This letter introduces a novel data-dependent interleaving technique designed to enhance the security of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) networks by protecting the common stream from eavesdropping threats. Specifically, we exploit the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Shaima Abidrabbu , Hüseyin Arslan