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We consider the secure transmission of information over an ergodic fading channel in the presence of an eavesdropper. Our eavesdropper can be viewed as the wireless counterpart of Wyner's wiretapper. The secrecy capacity of such a system is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Praveen Kumar Gopala , Lifeng Lai , Hesham El Gamal

The secrecy capacity of the type II wiretap channel (WTC II) with a noisy main channel is currently an open problem. Herein its secrecy-capacity is derived and shown to be equal to its semantic-security (SS) capacity. In this setting, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Ziv Goldfeld , Paul Cuff , Haim H. Permuter

Visible light positioning (VLP) is widely believed to be a cost-effective answer to the growing demanded for robot indoor positioning. Considering that some extreme environments require robot to be equipped with a precise and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Hongyun Xie , Linyi Huang , Wenfei Wu

The broadcasting nature of the wireless medium makes exposure to eavesdroppers a potential threat. Physical Layer Security (PLS) has been widely recognized as a promising security measure complementary to encryption. It has recently been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Parastoo Sadeghi , Faycal Bouhafs , Neda Aboutorab , Frank den Hartog

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of our latest OpenVLC1.3 platform to perform research in Visible Light Communication Systems. We retain the advantages of the previous versions such as TCP/IP layers support, software…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Ander Galisteo , Diego Juara , Domenico Giustiniano

In this paper, we propose a new paradigm in designing and realizing energy efficient wireless indoor access networks, namely, a hybrid system enabled by traditional RF access, such as WiFi, as well as the emerging visible light…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Abdallah Khreishah , Sihua Shao , Ammar Gharaibeh , Moussa Ayyash , Hany Elgala , Nirwan Ansari

The secrecy capacity of a network, for a given collection of permissible wiretap sets, is the maximum rate of communication such that observing links in any permissible wiretap set reveals no information about the message. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tao Cui , Tracey Ho , Joerg Kliewer

We present experimental data on message transmission in a free-space optical (FSO) link at an eye-safe wavelength, using a testbed consisting of one sender and two receiver terminals, where the latter two are a legitimate receiver and an…

The advent of the fifth-generation technology promises to bring about more vertical applications and emerging services that include vehicular networks and intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). To achieve their vision of real-time and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pedro E. Gória Silva , Eduardo S. Lima , Jules M. Moualeu , Mohamed Korium , Pedro H. J. Nardelli

Current security techniques can be implemented either by requiring a secret key exchange or depending on assumptions about the communication channels. In this paper, we show that, by using a physical layer technique known as artificial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Shuiyin Liu , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

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

Due to the malicious attacks in wireless networks, physical layer security has attracted increasing concerns from both academia and industry. The research on physical layer security mainly focuses either on the secrecy capacity/achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Dong Wang , Bo Bai , Wenbo Zhao , Zhu Han

Visible light communications (VLC) is an emerging field in technology and research. Estimating the channel taps is a major requirement for designing reliable communication systems. Due to the nonlinear characteristics of the VLC channel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Anil Yesilkaya , Onur Karatalay , Arif Selcuk Ogrenci , Erdal Panayirci

In industrial automation or emergency rescue, sensors and robots work together with the help of an edge information hub (EIH) containing both communication and computing modules. Typically, the EIH collects the sensing data via the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chengleyang Lei , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Jue Wang , Ning Ge , Shi Jin , Tony Q. S. Quek

The co-deployment of radio frequency (RF) and visible light communications (VLC) technologies has been investigated in indoor environments to enhance network performances and to address specific quality-of-service (QoS) constraints. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Marwan Hammouda , Sami Akın , Anna Maria Vegni , Harald Haas , Jürgen Peissig

The growing demand for location-based services in areas like virtual reality, robot control, and navigation has intensified the focus on indoor localization. Visible light positioning (VLP), leveraging visible light communications (VLC),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Zhiyu Zhu , Yang Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Caili Guo , Julian Cheng , Shuguang Cui

This paper presents a comprehensive physical layer security (PLS) framework for fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided short-packet communications under the variable block-correlation model (VBCM). We consider a downlink wiretap scenario in which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jianchao Zheng , Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Baiyang Liu , Runyu Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Kin-Fai Tong , Sumei Sun

We study the capacity of secret-key agreement over a wiretap channel with state parameters. The transmitter communicates to the legitimate receiver and the eavesdropper over a discrete memoryless wiretap channel with a memoryless state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ashish Khisti , Suhas Diggavi , Gregory Wornell

This paper proposes a novel power-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) placement algorithm for indoor visible light communication (VLC). In the considered model, the LEDs can be designedly placed for high power efficiency while satisfying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-30 Yang Yang , Zhiyu Zhu , Caili Guo , Chunyan Feng

In next-generation wireless systems, providing location-based mobile computing services for energy-neutral devices has become a crucial objective for the provision of sustainable Internet of Things (IoT). Visible light positioning (VLP) has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Boxuan Xie , Lauri Mela , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Yu Bai , Zehui Xiong , Zhu Han , Dusit Niyato , Riku Jäntti