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In this paper, we consider the physical layer security of an RIS-assisted multiple-antenna communication system with randomly located eavesdroppers. The exact distributions of the received signal-to-noise-ratios (SNRs) at the legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Wei Shi , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Xiaohu You , Chunming Zhao

We investigate the optimality and power allocation algorithm of beam domain transmission for single-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a multi-antenna passive eavesdropper. Focusing on the secure massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Wenqian Wu , Xiqi Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Chengshan Xiao

In this letter, we analyze the secrecy performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication system with spatially random unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as eavesdroppers. We consider the scenarios where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Lai Wei , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan

In this paper, we investigate the physical-layer security of a multi-user multi-eavesdropper cognitive radio system, which is composed of multiple cognitive users (CUs) transmitting to a common cognitive base station (CBS), while multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yulong Zou , Xuelong Li , Ying-Chang Liang

In this paper, we provide expressions for the secrecy outage probability (SOP) for suboptimal and optimal opportunistic scheduling schemes in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided {single antenna} system with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Burhan Wafai , Sarbani Ghose , Chinmoy Kundu , Ankit Dubey , Mark F. Flanagan

This paper investigates physical layer security (PLS) in the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiple-user uplink channel. Since the instantaneous eavesdropper's channel state information (CSI) is unavailable, the secrecy rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xiangrui Cheng , Yiliang Liu , Zhou Su , Wei Wang

In this paper, we propose an opportunistic user scheduling scheme in a multi-user reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided wireless system to improve secrecy. We derive the secrecy outage probability (SOP) and its asymptotic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Burhan Wafai , Sarbani Ghose , Chinmoy Kundu , Ankit Dubey , Mark F. Flanagan

In this paper, an extended large wireless network under the secrecy constraint is considered. In contrast to works which use idealized assumptions, a more realistic network situation with unknown eavesdroppers locations is investigated: the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Amir Hossein Hadavi , Narges Kazempour , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Mohammad Reza Aref

Sharing resource blocks in NOMA systems provides more opportunity to the internal users to overhear the messages of the other users. Therefore, some sort of secrecy against the internal users in addition to the external eavesdroppers must…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Milad Abolpour , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Mohammad Reza Aref

Wireless communication is susceptible to adversarial eavesdropping due to the broadcast nature of the wireless medium. In this paper it is shown how eavesdropping can be alleviated by exploiting the superposition property of the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

This paper proposes a new design of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) under secrecy considerations. We focus on a NOMA system where a transmitter sends confidential messages to multiple users in the presence of an external eavesdropper.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Biao He , An Liu , Nan Yang , Vincent K. N. Lau

In this paper, we consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system consisting of one source, one destination and one eavesdropper, where each node is equipped with an arbitrary number of antennas. To improve the security of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jia Zhu , Yulong Zou , Gongpu Wang , Yu-Dong Yao , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper investigates the performance of multi-user covert communications over a fixed bandwidth in a multi-cell scenario with both eavesdroppers and malicious jammers. We propose an intelligent spectrum control (ISC) scheme that combines…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yujie Ling , Zan Li , Lei Guan , Zheng Zhang , Dusit Niyato

We investigate the $K$-user many-to-one interference channel with confidential messages in which the $K$th user experiences interference from all other $K-1$ users, and is at the same time treated as an eavesdropper to all the messages of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-19 Xiang He , Aylin Yener

We study the secrecy of wireless channels in the presence of an eavesdropper, where the channels are random and the transmitter only has knowledge of the channel statistics. We investigate the optimal input distribution with respect to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Clement Leroy , Tarak Arbi , Benoit Geller , Olivier Rioul

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

Due to the exponential growth of interconnected devices and reduced cell coverage, beyond fifth-generation networks will be dense. Thus, instead of wired backhaul, wireless backhaul will be cost-effective and flexible. For security in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Burhan Wafai , Ankit Dubey , Chinmoy Kundu

This work proposes a provably convergent and low complexity optimization algorithm for the maximization of the secrecy energy efficiency in the uplink of a wireless network aided by a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS), in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Robert Kuku Fotock , Alessio Zappone , Marco Di Renzo

This work studies the achievable secure rate per source-destination pair in wireless networks. First, a path loss model is considered, where the legitimate and eavesdropper nodes are assumed to be placed according to Poisson point processes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-13 O. Ozan Koyluoglu , C. Emre Koksal , Hesham El Gamal

We evaluate and quantify the joint effect of fading and multiple interferers on the physical-layer (PHY) security of a system consisted of a base-station (BS), a legitimate user, and an eavesdropper. To this end, we present a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Dimitrios S. Karas , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , George K. Karagiannidis