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In this paper, we consider a homogenous multi-antenna downlink network where a passive eavesdropper intends to intercept the communication between a base station (BS) and multiple secure users (SU) over Rayleigh fading channels. In order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Xiaoming Chen , Yu Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the impact of side information (SI) on the performance of physical layer security (PLS) under correlated fading channels. By considering non-causally known SI at the transmitter and exploiting the copula…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Wei-Ping Zhu , Jean-Marie Gorce

In this paper, we explore the physical-layer security of a multi-user wireless system that consists of multiple users intending to transmit to a base station (BS), while multiple eavesdroppers attempt to tap the user transmissions. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yulong Zou , Jia Zhu , Gongpu Wang , Hua Shao

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

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…

We show that the problem of analyzing the outage probability in cellular systems affected by co-channel interference and background noise is mathematically equivalent to the problem of analyzing the wireless information-theoretic security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gerardo Gomez , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , David Morales-Jimenez , Matthew R. McKay

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the domain of physical layer security in multiuser wireless networks. The essential premise of physical-layer security is to enable the exchange of confidential messages over a wireless medium…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Amitav Mukherjee , S. A. A. Fakoorian , Jing Huang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This paper deals with the secrecy capacity of the radio channel in interference-limited regime. We assume that interferers are uniformly scattered over the network area according to a Point Poisson Process and the channel model consists of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Hirley Alves , Carlos H. M. de Lima , Pedro. H. J. Nardelli , Richard Demo Souza , Matti Latva-aho

This thesis focuses on the wireless security in the physical layer with beamforming technique. One of the emerging areas is the security enhancement in the physical layer, which exploits the intrinsic properties of the wireless medium.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Yuanrui Zhang

This paper exploits the potential of physical layer security in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) aided two-tier heterogeneous networks (HetNets). We focus on the downlink secure transmission in the presence of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Yansha Deng , Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Arumugam Nallanathan , Maged Elkashlan

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

Pinching antenna (PA) systems have recently gained significant attention. While their physical-layer security (PLS) is being explored, most studies rely on idealized lossless models, ignoring practical waveguide attenuation. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Xiaochen Zhang , Haitao Du , Yanyu Cheng , Yushen Lin , Kah Chan Teh

Securing information in future mobile networks is challenging, especially for devices with limited computational resources. Physical layer security (PLS) offers a viable solution by leveraging wireless channel randomness. When full secrecy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Henry Carvajal Mora , Nathaly Orozco , Fernando Almeida García , José Vega-Sánchez , Felipe Grijalva , Edgar Benitez Olivo

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

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

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have several prominent advantages, including improving the level of wireless communications security and privacy. In this work, we focus on this aspect and envision a strategy to counteract the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Francesco Malandrino , Alessandro Nordio , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

In this letter, the use of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the physical layer security of downlink wireless communication is investigated. Assuming a single-antenna legitimate user and a multi-antenna eavesdropper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-07 Keming Feng , Xiao Li , Yu Han , Shi Jin , Yijian Chen

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) has become a crucial enabling technology for 5G and beyond, providing previously unheard-of increases in energy and spectrum efficiency. It is still difficult to guarantee secure communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Nipun Agarwal

\textcolor{blue}{In} this paper, we investigate the performance of physical layer security (PLS) over reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-aided wireless communication systems, where all fading channels are modeled with Fisher-Snedecor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Wei-Ping Zhu , Diego Martín

Physical layer security offers an efficient means to decrease the risk of confidential information leakage through wiretap links. In this paper, we address the physical-layer security in a cooperative wireless subnetwork that includes a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Saeed Vahidian , Sajad Hatamnia , Benoit Champagne