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This paper analyzes the secrecy performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted wireless communication system with a friendly jammer in the presence of an eavesdropper. The friendly jammer enhances the secrecy by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Burhan Wafai , Chinmoy Kundu , Ankit Dubey , Mark F. Flanagan

Joint Spatial Division and Multiplexing (JSDM) is a recently proposed scheme to enable massive MIMO like gains and simplified system operations for Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) systems. The key idea lies in partitioning the users into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Ansuman Adhikary , Giuseppe Caire

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide wireless access to terrestrial users, regardless of geographical constraints, and will be an important part of future communication systems. In this paper, a multi-user downlink dual-UAVs enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongjiang Lei , Jiacheng Jiang , Imran Shafique Ansari , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Differentially private federated learning faces a fundamental tension: privacy protection mechanisms that safeguard client data simultaneously create quantifiable privacy costs that discourage participation, undermining the collaborative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Ruichen Xu , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Jianwei Huang

Instead of against eavesdropping, this letter proposes a new paradigm in wireless security by studying how a legitimate monitor (e.g., government agencies) efficiently eavesdrops a suspicious wireless communication link. The suspicious…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

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

Due to the constraints on power supply and limited encryption capability, data security based on physical layer security (PLS) techniques in backscatter communications has attracted a lot of attention. In this work, we propose to enhance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Chi Jin , Zheng Chang , Fengye Hu , Hsiao-Hwa Chen , Timo Hamalainen

In this paper, we study the design of secure communication for time division duplexing multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with active eavesdropping. We assume that the eavesdropper actively attacks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Yongpeng Wu , Chao-Kai Wen , Wen Chen , Shi Jin , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire

Full-duplex (FD) transmission in a point-to-point (P2P) link, wherein bidirectional traffic flows simultaneously share the same spectrum, has the capability of doubling the link rate by completely removing self-interferences. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Chun-Hung Liu , Heng-Ming Hu

This paper investigates the performance of a legitimate surveillance system, where a legitimate monitor aims to eavesdrop on a dubious decode-and-forward relaying communication link. In order to maximize the effective eavesdropping rate,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Xin Jiang , Hai Lin , Caijun Zhong , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper studies the information theoretic secure aggregation problem in a three-layer hierarchical network with arbitrary heterogeneous data assignment, where clustered users communicate with an aggregation server through an intermediate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chenyi Sun , Ziting Zhang , Kai Wan , Xiang Zhang

We consider a single-cell downlink massive MIMO communication in the presence of an adversary capable of jamming and eavesdropping simultaneously. We show that massive MIMO communication is naturally resilient to no training-phase jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Y. Ozan Basciftci , C. Emre Koksal , Alexei Ashikhmin

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

In this paper we address a sum secrecy rate maximization problem for a multi-carrier and MIMO communication system. We consider the case that the receiver is capable of full-duplex (FD) operation and simultaneously sends jamming signal to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Tianyu Yang , Omid Taghizadeh , Rudolf Mathar

In this paper, we study using Destination Artificial Noise (DAN) besides Source Artificial Noise (SAN) to enhance physical layer secrecy with an outage probability based approach. It is assumed that all nodes in the network (i.e. source,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Ali Rahmanpour , Vahid T. Vakili , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

A wireless communication network is considered, consisting of a source (Alice), a destination (Bob) and an eavesdropper (Eve), each equipped with a single antenna. The communication is assisted by multiple helpers, each equipped with two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Shuangyu Luo , Jiangyuan Li , Athina Petropulu

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been viewed as a potential candidate for the upcoming generation of wireless communication systems. Comparing to traditional orthogonal multiple access (OMA), multiplexing users in the same…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Saeid Pakravan , Jean-Yves Chouinard , Xingwang Li , Ming Zeng , Wanming Hao , Quoc-Viet Pham , Octavia A. Dobre

This paper studies the physical layer security of a vehicular communication network in the presence of interference constraints by analysing its secrecy capacity. The system considers a legitimate receiver node and an eavesdropper node,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Abubakar U. Makarfi , Rupak Kharel , Khaled M. Rabie , Omprakash Kaiwartya , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems are vulnerable to jamming from self-interested users who utilize radio devices for their benefits during UAV transmissions. The vulnerability occurs due to the open nature of air-to-ground (A2G)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Joseanne Viana , Hamed Farkhari , Luis Miguel Campos , Pedro Sebastiao , Francisco Cercas , Luis Bernardo , Rui Dinis

In this paper, we propose a new practical power allocation technique based on bit error probability (BEP) for physical layer security systems. It is shown that the secrecy rate that is the most commonly used in physical layer security…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Javad Taghipour , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari , Moslem Forouzesh , Hossein Pishro-Nik