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We consider the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wiretap channel under a minimum receiver-side power constraint in addition to the usual maximum transmitter-side power constraint. This problem is motivated by energy harvesting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

This paper characterizes the secret message capacity of three networks where two unicast sessions share some of the communication resources. Each network consists of erasure channels with state feedback. A passive eavesdropper is assumed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli

This paper considers the problem of simultaneously communicating two messages, a high-security message and a low-security message, to a legitimate receiver, referred to as the security embedding problem. An information-theoretic formulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-09 Hung D. Ly , Tie Liu , Yufei Blankenship

Consider the Gaussian wiretap channel, where a transmitter wishes to send a confidential message to a legitimate receiver in the presence of an eavesdropper. It is well known that if the eavesdropper experiences less channel noise than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Vidhi Rana , Remi A. Chou , Taejoon Kim

Key extraction via measuring a physical quantity is a class of information theoretic key exchange protocols that rely on the physical characteristics of the communication channel to enable the computation of a shared key by two (or more)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Matt Edman , Aggelos Kiayias , Qiang Tang , Bulent Yener

In this paper, we address two main problems in the context of covert cyber-attacks in cyber-physical systems (CPS). First, we aim to investigate and develop necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of disruption resources of the CPS…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Mahdi Taheri , Khashayar Khorasani , Nader Meskin

The physical layer security in the up-link of the wireless communication systems is often modeled as the multiple access wiretap channel (MAC-WT), and recently it has received a lot attention. In this paper, the MAC-WT has been re-visited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Bin Dai , Zheng Ma

Security at the physical layer (PHY) is a salient research topic in wireless systems, and machine learning (ML) is emerging as a powerful tool for providing new data-driven security solutions. Therefore, the application of ML techniques to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Tiep M. Hoang , Alireza Vahid , Hoang Duong Tuan , Lajos Hanzo

Physical layer deception (PLD) is a novel security mechanism that combines physical layer security (PLS) with deception technologies to actively defend against eavesdroppers. In this paper, we establish a novel semantic model for PLD that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Anke Schmeink , Giuseppe Caire , Hans D. Schotten

This paper proposes a three-dimensional (3D) communication channel model for an indoor environment considering the effect of the Hypersurface. The Hypersurface is a software controlled intelligent metasurface, which can be used to…

Communication in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band has recently been proposed to enable giga-bit-per-second data rates for next generation wireless systems. Physical layer security techniques have emerged as a simple and yet effective way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Rohith Talwar , Nancy Amala , George Medina , Akshadeep Singh Jida , Mohammed E. Eltayeb

Underutilized wireless channel is a waste of spectral resource. Eavesdropping compromises data secrecy. How to overcome the two problems with one solution? In this paper, we propose a spectrum sharing model that defends against…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Yee-Loo Foo

In this paper, we investigate the design of artificial-noise-aided secure multi-antenna transmission in slow fading channels. The primary design concerns include the transmit power allocation and the rate parameters of the wiretap code. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xi Zhang , Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay

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

We investigate techniques for designing modulation/coding schemes for the wireless two-way relaying channel. The relay is assumed to have perfect channel state information, but the transmitters are assumed to have no channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-29 Brett Hern , Krishna Narayanan

A main distinguishing feature of a wireless network compared with a wired network is its broadcast nature, in which the signal transmitted by a node may reach several other nodes, and a node may receive signals from several other nodes,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Zhang Shengli , Soung Chang Liew

Providing security guarantees for wireless communication is critically important for today's applications. While previous work in this area has concentrated on radio frequency (RF) channels, providing security guarantees for RF channels is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Amine Laourine , Aaron B. Wagner

This work presents an experimental study of Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO) channel performance in indoor radio propagation environment. Indoor channel measurements at 2.4 GHz ISM frequency band have been performed using a versatile…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-09-20 Constantinos I. Votis , Vasilis Christofilakis , Panos Kostarakis

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

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless medium, wireless communication is highly vulnerable to eavesdropping attack. Traditionally, secure wireless data transmission has relied on cryptographic techniques at the network layer which incur…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Binh Van Nguyen , Hyoyoung Jung , Kiseon Kim