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A frequency domain (FD) time-reversal (TR) precoder is proposed to perform physical layer security (PLS) in single-input single-output (SISO) systems using orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and artificial noise (AN) signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Sidney Jonathan Golstein , François Rottenberg , François Horlin , Philippe De Doncker , Julien Sarrazin

Recently, wireless edge caching has been emerged as a promising technology for future wireless networks to cope with exponentially increasing demands for high data rate and low latency multimedia services by proactively storing contents at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Sepehr Rezvani , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan , Eduard A. Jorswieck

We consider caching of video streams in a cellular network in which each base station is equipped with a cache. Video streams are partitioned into multiple substreams and the goal is to place substreams in caches such that the residual…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Jasper Goseling , Berksan Serbetci

Recent work has studied the benefits of caching in the interference channel, particularly by placing caches at the transmitters. In this paper, we study the two-user Gaussian interference channel in which caches are placed at both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jad Hachem , Urs Niesen , Suhas Diggavi

We propose a new secure transmission scheme for uplink multiple-input single-output (MISO) orthogonal-frequency multiplexing (OFDM) systems in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. Our proposed scheme utilizes the sub-channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Mohamed Marzban , Ahmed El Shafie , Naofal Al-Dhahir

To address the exponentially rising demand for wireless content, use of caching is emerging as a potential solution. It has been recently established that joint design of content delivery and storage (coded caching) can significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Jad Hachem , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi

In this paper, we propose a simultaneous secrecy and covert communications (SSACC) scheme in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided network with a cooperative jammer. The scheme enhances communication security by maximizing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Yanyu Cheng , Yujian Hu , Haoran Liu , Hua Zhong , Wei Wang , Pan Li

Semantic communications have been envisioned as a potential technique that goes beyond Shannon paradigm. Unlike modern communications that provide bit-level security, the eaves-dropping of semantic communications poses a significant risk of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yongkang Li , Zheng Shi , Han Hu , Yaru Fu , Hong Wang , Hongjiang Lei

We consider the $(K,L,M,N)$ multi-access coded caching system introduced by Hachem et al., which consists of a central server with $N$ files and $K$ cache nodes, each of memory size $M$, where each user can access $L$ cache nodes in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mengyuan Li , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

This paper considers the security issue of practical distributed storage systems (DSSs) which consist of multiple clusters of storage nodes. Noticing that actual storage nodes constituting a DSS are distributed in multiple clusters, two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Beongjun Choi , Jy-yong Sohn , Sung Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon

Radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) in wireless relaying networks has attracted considerable recent interest, especially for supplying energy to relay nodes in Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems to assist the information exchange…

This paper considers a scenario in which a source-destination pair needs to establish a confidential connection against an external eavesdropper, aided by the interference generated by another source-destination pair that exchanges public…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Lingxiang Li , Athina P. Petropulu , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang

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

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) are expected to play a central role in future 6G infrastructures, yet uplink transmissions of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) remain vulnerable to eavesdropping due to their limited transmit power,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Wei Shi , Wei Xu , Yongming Huang , Jiacheng Yao , Wenhao Hu , Dongming Wang

This paper studies the performance of cache-enabled dense small cell networks consisting of multi-antenna sub-6 GHz and millimeter-wave base stations. Different from the existing works which only consider a single antenna at each base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Yongxu Zhu , Gan Zheng , Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Liqiang Zhao

In this paper, we propose a transmission scheme that achieves information theoretic security, without making assumptions on the eavesdropper's channel. This is achieved by a transmitter that deliberately introduces synchronization errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Jason Castiglione , Aleksandar Kavcic

We consider the problem of video caching across a set of 5G small-cell base stations (SBS) connected to each other over a high-capacity short-delay back-haul link, and linked to a remote server over a long-delay connection. Even though the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Shadab Mahboob , Koushik Kar , Jacob Chakareski

A continuous-aperture array (CAPA)-based secure transmission framework is proposed to enhance physical layer security. Continuous current distributions, or beamformers, are designed to maximize the secrecy transmission rate under a power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Boqun Zhao , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

We study secure communications in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems with multi-antenna access points (APs) and protective partial zero-forcing (PPZF) precoding. In particular, we consider an active…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yasseen Sadoon Atiya , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

In this contribution, we consider a two-tiered network and focus on the coexistence between the two tiers at physical layer. We target our efforts on a long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) orthogonal frequency division multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Marco Maso , Merouane Debbah , Lorenzo Vangelista