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This paper examines linear beamforming methods for secure communications in a multiuser wiretap channel with a single transmitter, multiple legitimate receivers, and a single eavesdropper, where all nodes are equipped with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Amitav Mukherjee , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This work investigates the phase gain of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) covert communication over complex-valued additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. The transmitter Alice intends to transmit covert messages to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Sen Qiao , Daming Cao , Qiaosheng Zhang , Yinfei Xu , Guangjie Liu

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 letter, we characterize the performance of broadcast approach with continuum of transmission layers in random wireless networks where the channel state information (CSI) is assumed to be known only at the receiver. By modeling the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Praful D. Mankar , Harpreet S. Dhillon

We consider the wiretap channel model under the presence of a hybrid, half duplex adversary that is capable of either jamming or eavesdropping at a given time. We analyzed the achievable rates under a variety of scenarios involving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Y. Ozan Basciftci , C. Emre Koksal , Fusun Ozguner

Motivated by the need to provide differentiated quality-of-service (QoS) in grant-free uplink transmissions in 5G networks and beyond, we extend the probabilistic analysis of coded Poisson receivers (CPR) to the setting with multiple…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Chia-Ming Chang , Yi-Jheng Lin , Cheng-Shang Chang , Duan-Shin Lee

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is leveraged to enhance the physical layer security of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system in which the IRS is deployed to not only assist the downlink communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Octavia A. Dobre , A. Lee Swindlehurst

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

We present a novel analytical framework to characterize the distribution of the conditional receiver operating characteristic (ROC) in radar systems operating within a realization of a Poisson field of interferers and clutters. While…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Gourab Ghatak

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

A near-field secure transmission framework is proposed. Employing the hybrid beamforming architecture, a multi-antenna base station (BS) transmits confidential information to a multi-antenna legitimate user (U) against a multi-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Jian Chen

This paper investigates the physical layer security (PLS) of a broadband in-home power line communication (PLC) system when a malicious wireless device tries to eavesdrop private messages exchanged between two PLC devices. Such a security…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-30 Ândrei Camponogara , H. Vincent Poor , Moisés V. Ribeiro

A basic model for key agreement with biometric or physical identifiers is extended to include measurements of a hidden source through a general broadcast channel (BC). An inner bound for strong secrecy, maximum key rate, and minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard Kramer

Covert communications hide the transmission of a message from a watchful adversary while ensuring a certain decoding performance at the receiver. In this work, a wireless communication system under fading channels is considered where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Feng Shu , Jun Li

Next-generation systems aim to increase both the speed and responsiveness of wireless communications, while supporting compelling applications such as edge and cloud computing, remote-Health, vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, etc.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Zhongxiang Wei , Christos Masouros , H. Vincent Poor , Athina P. Petropulu , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we study the problem of physical layer security in a large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (LS-MIMO) relaying system. The advantage of LS-MIMO relaying systems is exploited to enhance both wireless security and spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Xiaoming Chen , Lei Lei , Huazi Zhang , Chau Yuen

Information-theoretic security -- widely accepted as the strictest notion of security -- relies on channel coding techniques that exploit the inherent randomness of the propagation channels to significantly strengthen the security of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-22 Pedro C. Pinto , Joao Barros , Moe Z. Win

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are employed to enhance the physical layer security in a challenging radio environment. In particular, a multi-antenna access point (AP) has to serve multiple single-antenna legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Ying Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

In this paper, we propose to utilize intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) for enhancing the physical layer security of wireless communications systems. In particular, an IRS-assisted secure wireless system is considered, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

In this paper, we derive information-theoretic performance limits for secure and reliable communications over the general two-user discrete memoryless broadcast channel with side-information at the transmitter. The sender wishes to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-27 K. G. Nagananda , Chandra R Murthy , Shalinee Kishore