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We address physical layer security in distributed antenna (DA) systems, where eavesdroppers (Eves) can intercept the information transmitted for the intended receiver (IR). To realize a user-centric, power-efficient and physical layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-13 Zhongxiang Wei , Christos Masouros

With recent developments of wireless communication technologies, malicious users can use them to commit crimes or launch terror attacks, thus imposing new threats on the public security. To quickly respond to defend these attacks,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

Inspired from quantum key distribution, we consider wireless communication between Alice and Bob when the intermediate space between Alice and Bob is controlled by Eve. That is, our model divides the channel noise into two parts, the noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Masahito Hayashi

Movable antenna (MA) array is a novel technology recently developed where positions of transmit/receive antennas can be flexibly adjusted in the specified region to reconfigure the wireless channel and achieve a higher capacity. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Kui Xu , Jiangbo Si , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This paper studies the problem of extracting common randomness (CR) or secret keys from correlated random sources observed by two legitimate parties, Alice and Bob, through public discussion in the presence of an eavesdropper, Eve. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Xinyang Li , Vlad C. Andrei , Peter J. Gu , Yiqi Chen , Ullrich J. Mönich , Holger Boche

In this paper, we investigate the sensing-aided physical layer security (PLS) towards Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems. A well-known limitation of PLS is the need to have information about potential eavesdroppers (Eves).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Nanchi Su , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros

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

We investigate the physical-layer security of indoor hybrid parallel power-line/wireless orthogonal-frequency division-multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems. We propose an artificial-noise (AN) aided scheme to enhance the system's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Ahmed El Shafie , Mohamed F. Marzban , Rakan Chabaan , Naofal Al-Dhahir

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

We present a quantum communication protocol which keeps all the properties of the ping-pong protocol [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 187902 (2002)] but improves the capacity doubly as the ping-pong protocol. Alice and Bob can use the variable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-yu Cai , Bai-wen Li

We investigate the physical layer security of wireless single-input single-output orthogonal-division multiplexing (OFDM) when a transmitter, which we refer to as Alice, sends her information to a receiver, which we refer to as Bob, in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Mohamed F. Marzban , Ahmed El Shafie , Rakan Chabaan , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this Paper, we investigate the security of Zhang, Li and Guo quantum key distribution via quantum encryption protocol [$\text{Phys. Rev. A} \textbf{64}, 24302 (2001)$] and show that it is not secure against some of Eve's attacks and with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Fahmi

There have been recently many studies demonstrating that the performance of wireless communication systems can be significantly improved by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which is an attractive technology due to its low power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Samed Keşir , Sefa Kayraklık , İbrahim Hökelek , Ali Emre Pusane , Ertugrul Basar , Ali Görçin

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a key enabler for providing signal coverage, energy efficiency, reliable communication, and physical layer security (PLS) in next-generation wireless communication networks. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Ahmet Muaz Aktas , Sefa Kayraklik , Sultangali Arzykulov , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev , Ibrahim Hokelek , Ali Gorcin

A new paradigm for secure communication, based on quantum illumination, is proposed. Alice uses spontaneous parametric down-conversion to send Bob a set of signal modes over a pure-loss channel while retaining the set of idler modes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Position scrambling (permutation) is widely used in multimedia encryption schemes and some international encryption standards, such as the Data Encryption Standard and the Advanced Encryption Standard. In this article, the authors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Chengqing Li , Dongdong Lin , Jinhu Lü

In this paper, we study robust beamforming design for near-field physical-layer-security (PLS) systems, where a base station (BS) equipped with an extremely large-scale array (XL-array) serves multiple near-field legitimate users (Bobs) in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Chao Zhou , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Chengwen Xing , Jianhua Zhang

Security and privacy are major concerns in modern communication networks. In recent years, the information theory of covert communications, where the very presence of the communication is undetectable to a watchful and determined adversary,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Amir Houmansadr

Orthogonal blinding based schemes for wireless physical layer security aim to achieve secure communication by injecting noise into channels orthogonal to the main channel and corrupting the eavesdropper's signal reception. These methods,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yanjun Pan , Yao Zheng , Ming Li

A novel movable antenna (MA)-aided secure transmission framework is proposed to enhance the secrecy transmission rate without relying on the eavesdropper's channel state information. Within this framework, a joint beamforming and jamming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Zhenqiao Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang