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Person identification plays a vital role in enabling intelligent, personalized, and secure human-computer interaction. Recent research has demonstrated the feasibility of leveraging Wi-Fi signals for passive person identification using a…

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We consider a group of $m$ trusted and authenticated nodes that aim to create a shared secret key $K$ over a wireless channel in the presence of an eavesdropper Eve. We assume that there exists a state dependent wireless broadcast channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Shaunak Mishra , Christina Fragouli , Suhas N. Diggavi

Millimetre-wave (mmWave) radar has emerged as an attractive and cost-effective alternative for human activity sensing compared to traditional camera-based systems. mmWave radars are also non-intrusive, providing better protection for user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Han Cui , Shu Zhong , Jiacheng Wu , Zichao Shen , Naim Dahnoun , Yiren Zhao

In this paper, we consider the physical layer (PHY) security problem for hybrid wiretapping wireless systems in millimeter wave transmission, where active eavesdroppers (AEs) and passive eavesdroppers (PEs) coexist to intercept the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Bin Qiu , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

The ability to distribute secret keys between two parties with information-theoretic security, that is, regardless of the capacities of a malevolent eavesdropper, is one of the most celebrated results in the field of quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Eleni Diamanti , Anthony Leverrier

Accurately aligning millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) narrow beams is essential to satisfy reliability and high data rates of 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. However, achieving this objective is difficult,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tawfik Osman , Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies offer the availability of huge bandwidths to provide unprecedented data rates to next-generation cellular mobile terminals. However, directional mmWave links are highly susceptible to rapid channel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

To support high data rate urgent or ad hoc communications, we consider mmWave UAV cellular networks and the associated challenges and solutions. To enable fast beamforming training and tracking, we first investigate a hierarchical structure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhenyu Xiao , Pengfei Xia , Xiang-Gen Xia

Millimeter wave (mm-wave) communications is considered a promising technology for 5G networks. Exploiting beamforming gains with large-scale antenna arrays to combat the increased path loss at mm-wave bands is one of its defining features.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , Martin Haenggi , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we consider the problem of secret key generation for multiple parties. Multi-user networks usually require a trusted party to efficiently distribute keys to the legitimate users and this process is a weakness against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ufuk Altun , Semiha T. Basaran , Gunes K. Kurt , Enver Ozdemir

Emitting phased array RF systems have to contend with an ever-increasing number of eavesdroppers as technological advancements provide lower cost and/or more capable radios. Often, eavesdroppers can accumulate sufficient information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 David Couto , Arash Samani , Alec Yonika

Unlike conventional anti-eavesdropping methods that always require additional energy or computing resources (e.g., in friendly jamming and cryptography-based solutions), this work proposes a novel anti-eavesdropping solution that comes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Nguyen Van Huynh , Nguyen Quang Hieu , Nam H. Chu , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Eryk Dutkiewicz

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication with large array gains is a key ingredient of next generation (5G) wireless networks. Effective communication in mmWaves usually depends on the knowledge of the channel. We refer to the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) require ultra-low end-to-end delays and multi-gigabit-per-second data transmission. Millimetre Waves (mmWaves) communications can fulfil these requirements. However, the increased mobility of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Ioannis Mavromatis , Andrea Tassi , Robert J. Piechocki , Andrew Nix

In future wireless communication systems, millimeter waves (mmWaves) will play an important role in meeting high data rates. However, due to their short wavelengths, these mmWaves present high propagation losses and are highly attenuated by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Mbissane Dieng , Gheorghe Zaharia , Ghaïs El Zein , Raphaël Gillard , Renaud Loison

We consider a wireless communication system with a passive eavesdropper, in which a transmitter and legitimate receiver generate and use key bits to secure the transmission of their data. These bits are added to and used from a pool of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Karl-Ludwig Besser , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

We present a simple new technique to secure quantum key distribution relay networks using secret sharing. Previous techniques have relied on creating distinct physical paths in order to create the shares. We show, however, how this can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Stephen M. Barnett , Simon J. D. Phoenix

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication plays a vital role to efficiently disseminate large volumes of data in beyond-5G networks. Unfortunately, the directionality of mmWave communication significantly complicates efficient data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Gek Hong , Sim , Mahdi Mousavi , Lin Wang , Anja Klein , Matthias Hollick

We consider the problem where a group of n nodes, connected to the same broadcast channel (e.g., a wireless network), want to generate a common secret bitstream, in the presence of an adversary Eve, who tries to obtain information on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-10-26 Iris Safaka , Mahdi J. Siavoshani , Uday Pulleti , Emre Atsan , Christina Fragouli , Katerina Argyraki , Suhas Diggavi

Wi-Fi signals may help realize low-cost and non-invasive human sensing, yet it can also be exploited by eavesdroppers to capture private information. Very few studies rise to handle this privacy concern so far; they either jam all sensing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Jun Luo , Hangcheng Cao , Hongbo Jiang , Yanbing Yang , Zhe Chen