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We study multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) based downlink heterogeneous cellular network (HetNets) with joint transmit-receive diversity using orthogonal space-time block codes at the base stations (BSs) and maximal-ratio combining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Ralph Tanbourgi , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Friedrich K. Jondral

Simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RIS) offer a transformative approach for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, particularly for enhancing physical layer security (PLS). This…

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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), which allows individual radar and communication systems to share the same spectrum bands, is an emerging and promising technique for alleviating spectrum congestion problems. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Jinjin Chu , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

We pay our attention towards secure and robust communication in the presence of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-enhanced mobile eavesdropping attacker in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO)wireless networks.Specifically,we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Gaoyuan Zhang , Ruisong Si , Boyuan Li , Zijian Li , Baofeng Ji , Chenqi Zhu , Tony Q. S. Quek

This paper leverages fluid antenna (FA) and rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) to enhance the physical layer security (PLS) of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We consider a practical multi-user multi-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Cixiao Zhang , Yin Xu , Size Peng , Xinghao Guo , Xiaowu Ou , Hanjiang Hong , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

In this paper, we present a signaling design for secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems comprising a dual-functional multi-input multi-output (MIMO) base station (BS) that simultaneously communicates with multiple users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Nanchi Su , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , George C. Alexandropoulos , Yifeng Xiong , Qinyu Zhang

This paper investigates physical layer security (PLS) in a movable antenna (MA)-assisted full-duplex (FD) system. In this system, an FD base station (BS) with multiple MAs for transmission and reception provides services for an uplink (UL)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Chenbo Wang , Wenyao Li , Lifeng Lin , Bingli Jiao

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is leveraged to enhance the physical layer security of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system in which the IRS is deployed to not only assist the downlink communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Octavia A. Dobre , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The crushing demand for wireless data services will soon exceed the capability of the current homogeneous cellular architecture. An emerging solution is to overlay small-cell networks with the macro-cell networks. In this paper, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Yafei Tian , Songtao Lu , Chenyang Yang

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute a strong candidate physical-layer technology for the $6$-th Generation (6G) of wireless networks, offering new design degrees of freedom for efficiently addressing demanding performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , George C. Alexandropoulos

In this paper, we investigate the potential benefits of the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) enabled heterogeneous cloud radio access network (C-RAN) in terms of the secrecy and energy efficiency (EE). In this network, both…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Sangarapillai Lambotharan

This paper investigates the physical layer security of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in large-scale networks with invoking stochastic geometry. Both single-antenna and multiple-antenna aided transmission scenarios are considered,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Yuanwei Liu , Zhijin Qin , Maged Elkashlan , Yue Gao , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we propose intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) assisted secure wireless communications with multi-input and multi-output antennas (IRS-MIMOME). The considered scenario is an access point (AP) equipped with multiple antennas…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Weiheng Jiang , Yu Zhang , Jinsong Wu , Wenjiang Feng , Yi Jin

A small-cell network with multiple transmitters and unreliable wireless backhaul is considered for secrecy enhancement. The small-cell network is operating under a spectrum sharing agreement with a primary network in a cognitive radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Burhan Wafai , Chinmoy Kundu , Ankit Dubey , Jinghua Zhang , Mark F. Flanagan

We investigate the achievable secrecy sum-rate in a multi-user XL-MIMO system, on which user distances to the base station become comparable to the antenna array dimensions. We show that the consideration of spherical-wavefront propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Gonzalo J. Anaya-Lopez , Jose P. Gonzalez-Coma , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

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

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Francesco Malandrino , Alessandro Nordio , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

We introduce an opportunistic interference mitigation (OIM) protocol, where a user scheduling strategy is utilized in $K$-cell uplink networks with time-invariant channel coefficients and base stations (BSs) having $M$ antennas. Each BS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Bang Chul Jung , Dohyung Park , Won-Yong Shin

In this paper, we study a secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where one multi-antenna base station (BS) simultaneously serves a downlink communication user and senses the location of a target that may potentially serve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Kaiyue Hou , Shuowen Zhang

This work proposes an optimal metric for opportunistic scheduling of secondary user transmitters (SU-TXs) in underlay cognitive radio based multiple-input multiple-output radio frequency/free space optical (MIMO-RF/FSO) decode-and-forward…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Neeraj Varshney , Prabhat K. Sharma , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted heterogeneous network comprising legitimate information-harvesting receivers (IHRs) and untrusted energy-harvesting receivers (UEHRs). A multi-antenna base station (BS)…

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