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This paper investigates the passive beamforming and deployment design for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided full-duplex (FD) wireless system, where an FD access point (AP) communicates with an uplink (UL) user and a downlink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yunlong Cai , Ming-Min Zhao , Kaidi Xu , Rui Zhang

In-band full-duplex relay (FDR) has attracted much attention as an effective solution to improve the coverage and spectral efficiency in wireless communication networks. The basic problem for FDR transmission is how to eliminate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Pu Yang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Qingyue Qu , Han Wang , Yi Liu

In this paper, we develop a novel low-complexity artificial noise (AN) aided beam focusing scheme in a near-field terahertz wiretap communication system. In this system, the base station (BS) equipped with a large-scale array transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zhifeng Tang , Nan Yang , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Markku Juntti , Josep Miquel Jornet

In this work, we address the problem of designing delay-based anonymous communication systems. We consider a timed mix where an eavesdropper wants to learn the communication pattern of the users, and study how the mix must delay the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Simon Oya , Fernando Pérez-González , Carmela Troncoso

We consider the problem of covert communication over a state-dependent channel when the channel state is available either non-causally, causally, or strictly causally, either at the transmitter alone or at both transmitter and receiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Hassan ZivariFard , Matthieu R. Bloch , Aria Nosratinia

Encryption prevents unauthorized decoding, but does not ensure stealth---a security demand that a mere presence of a message be undetectable. We characterize the ultimate limit of covert communication that is secure against the most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Boulat A. Bash , Andrei H. Gheorghe , Monika Patel , Jonathan Habif , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Saikat Guha

In this paper, a multi-antenna assisted virtual full-duplex (FD) relaying with reliability-aware iterative decoding at destination node is proposed to improve system spectral efficiency and reliability. This scheme enables two half-duplex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Jiancao Hou , Sandeep Narayanan , Yi Ma , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

In this paper, we propose a novel directional modulation (DM) scheme based on random frequency diverse arrays with artificial noise (RFDA-DM-AN) to enhance physical layer security of wireless communications. Specifically, we first design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Jinsong Hu , Shihao Yan , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang , Jun Li , Yijin Zhang

A sensing-aided covert communication network empowered by pinching antenna systems (PASS) is proposed in this work. Unlike conventional fixed-position MIMO arrays, PASS dynamically reconfigures its pinching antennas (PAs) closer to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding

The covert capacity is characterized for a non-coherent fast Rayleigh-fading wireless channel, in which a legitimate user wishes to communicate reliably with a legitimate receiver while escaping detection from a warden. It is shown that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Anne Savard , Matthieu R. Bloch

The artificial noise (AN) aided multi-beam directional modulation (DM) technology is capable of wireless physical layer secure (PLS) transmissions for multiple desired receivers in free space. The application of AN, however, makes it less…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Qian Cheng , Vincent Fusco , Jiang Zhu , Shilian Wang , Fanggang Wang

While the impact of finite-rate feedback on the capacity of fading channels has been extensively studied in the literature, not much attention has been paid to this problem under secrecy constraint. In this work, we study the ergodic secret…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Shuiyin Liu , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

We consider covert communication, i.e., hiding the presence of communication from an adversary for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. We characterize the maximum covert coding rate under a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Ahmed Bendary , Amr Abdelaziz , C. Emre Koksal

In this paper, we consider a bidirectional relay network with half-duplex nodes and block fading where the nodes transmit with a fixed transmission rate. Thereby, user 1 and user 2 exchange information only via a relay node, i.e., a direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Vahid Jamali , Nikola Zlatanov , Robert Schober

Recently, it has been shown that the time-varying multiple-access channel (MAC) with perfect channel state information (CSI) at the receiver and delayed feedback CSI at the transmitters can be modeled as the finite state MAC (FS-MAC) with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Bin Dai , Zheng Ma , Ming Xiao , Xiaohu Tang , Pingzhi Fan

This paper considers artificial noise (AN)-aided transmit designs for multi-user MISO systems in the eyes of service integration. Specifically, we combine two sorts of services, and serve them simultaneously: one multicast message intended…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Lingxiang Li , Jun Fang , Shaoqian Li

Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) is a promising technology for future wireless networks, enabling simultaneous communication and sensing using shared resources. This paper investigates the performance of full-duplex (FD)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Ahsan Nazar , Zhambyl Shaikhanov , Sennur Ulukus

This work considers covert communications in the context of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, aiming to hide a UAV for transmitting critical information out of a scenario that is monitored and where communication is not allowed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Jiande Sun , Jun Li , Feng Shu

This work addresses private communication with distributed systems in mind. We consider how to best use secret key resources and communication to transmit signals across a system so that an eavesdropper is least capable to act on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paul Cuff

Full-duplex systems are expected to double the spectral efficiency compared to conventional half-duplex systems if the self-interference signal can be significantly mitigated. Digital cancellation is one of the lowest complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Elsayed Ahmed , Ahmed M. Eltawil