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This paper investigates robust secure communications in a near-field integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system, in which the base station (BS) is equipped with an extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA). In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Zixiang Ren , Siyao Zhang , Ling Qiu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jie Xu

The deployment of small cells is expected to gain huge momentum in the near future, as a solution for managing the skyrocketing mobile data demand growth. Local caching of popular files at the small cell base stations has been recently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Konstantinos Poularakis , George Iosifidis , Vasilis Sourlas , Leandros Tassiulas

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

In this paper, the scheduling of downlink file transmission in one cell with the assistance of cache nodes with finite cache space is studied. Specifically, requesting users arrive randomly and the base station (BS) reactively multicasts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Bojie Lv , Rui Wang , Ying Cui , Yi Gong , Haisheng Tan

In this paper, we investigate opportunistic relay and jammer cooperation schemes in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) buffer-aided relay networks. The network consists of one source, an arbitrary number of relay nodes, legitimate users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-24 X. Lu , R. C. de Lamare

Multi-tier cellular networks are considered as an effective solution to enhance the coverage and data rate offered by cellular systems. In a multi-tier network, high power base stations (BSs) such as macro BSs are overlaid by lower power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Ahmed Hamdi Sakr , Ekram Hossain

This work considers load-balance control among the relays under the secure transmission protocol via relay cooperation in two-hop wireless networks without the information of both eavesdropper channels and locations. The available two-hop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang , Jianfeng Ma

In this paper we investigate the problem of optimal cache placement under secrecy constraints in heterogeneous networks, where small-cell base stations are equipped with caches to reduce the overall backhaul load. For two models for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Frederic Gabry , Valerio Bioglio , Ingmar Land

Due to great efficiency improvement in resource and hardware space, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has gained much attention. In the paper, the physical layer security (PLS) of ISAC system under communication eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tian Zhang , Zhirong Su , Yueyi Dong

The physical layer security (PLS) performance of a wireless communication link through a large reflecting surface (LRS) with phase errors is analyzed. Leveraging recent results that express the \ac{LRS}-based composite channel as an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jose David Vega Sanchez , Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

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

We study the optimal geographic content placement problem for device-to-device (D2D) networks in which the content popularity follows the Zipf law. We consider a D2D caching model where the locations of the D2D users (caches) are modeled by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Derya Malak , Mazin Al-Shalash , Jeffrey G. Andrews

In this work, we propose a new physical layer security framework for optical space networks. More precisely, we consider two practical eavesdropping scenarios: free-space optical (FSO) eavesdropping in the space and FSO eavesdropping in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Olfa Ben Yahia , Eylem Erdogan , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Ibrahim Altunbas , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Ensuring physical-layer security in non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) is challenging due to their global coverage and multi-hop relaying across heterogeneous network layers, where the locations and channels of potential eavesdroppers are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Hyeonsu Lyu , Yumin Kim , Hyun Jong Yang

We develop the optimal economical caching schemes in cache-enabled heterogeneous networks, while delivering multimedia video services with personalized viewing qualities to mobile users. By applying scalable video coding (SVC), each video…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Xuewei Zhang , Tiejun Lv , Yuan Ren , Wei Ni , Norman C. Beaulieu , Y. Jay Guo

The secure distribution of protected content requires consumer authentication and involves the conventional method of end-to-end encryption. However, in information-centric networking (ICN) the end-to-end encryption makes the content…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Muhammad Bilal , Shin-Gak Kang , Sangheon Pack

Caching popular contents at base stations (BSs) is a promising way to unleash the potential of cellular heterogeneous networks (HetNets), where backhaul has become a bottleneck. In this paper, we compare a cache-enabled HetNet where a tier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Dong Liu , Chenyang Yang

In this paper, we study the probabilistic caching for an $N$-tier wireless heterogeneous network (HetNet) using stochastic geometry. A general and tractable expression of the successful delivery probability (SDP) is first derived. We then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Kuikui Li , Chenchen Yang , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao

This paper develops a tractable framework for exploiting the potential benefits of physical layer security in three-tier wireless sensor networks using stochastic geometry. In such networks, the sensing data from the remote sensors are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Yansha Deng , Lifeng Wang , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Ranjan K. Mallik

This paper investigates the potential of movable antennas (MAs) to enhance physical layer security within a multiple-input multiple-output multiple-antenna eavesdropper (MIMOME) system. We consider a practical scenario where the transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Lei Xie , Peilan Wang , Guanxiong Shen , Guyue Li , Weidong Mei , Liquan Chen