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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

Pinching antenna (PA) systems have recently gained significant attention. While their physical-layer security (PLS) is being explored, most studies rely on idealized lossless models, ignoring practical waveguide attenuation. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Xiaochen Zhang , Haitao Du , Yanyu Cheng , Yushen Lin , Kah Chan Teh

Relay selection is considered to enhance the secrecy of a dual-hop regenerative multi-relay system with an eavesdropper. Without assuming perfect decoding at the relays, the secrecy outage probability of a single relay system is obtained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Chinmoy Kundu , Sarbani Ghose , Ranjan Bose

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

This paper investigates physical layer security (PLS) in wireless interference networks. Specifically, we consider confidential transmission from a legitimate transmitter (Alice) to a legitimate receiver (Bob), in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Lin Hu , Jiabing Fan , Hong Wen , Jie Tang , Qianbin Chen

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 propose a novel attack that compromises the physical layer security of downlink (DL) communications in wireless systems. This technique is based on the transmission of a slowly-varying random symbol by the eavesdropper during its uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Gonzalo J. Anaya-Lopez , Gerardo Gomez , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising technology to secure wireless communications by exploiting the physical properties of the wireless channel. However, the passive nature of PLS creates a significant imbalance between the effort…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wenwen Chen , Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Anke Schmeink , Giuseppe Caire , Hans D. Schotten

Most of the well-known fading distributions, if not all of them, could be encompassed by Fox's $H$-function fading. Consequently, we investigate the exact and asymptotic behavior of physical layer security (PLS) over Fox's $H$-function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Long Kong , Georges Kaddoum , Hatim Chergui

Passive eavesdropping compromises confidentiality in wireless networks, especially in resource-constrained environments where heavyweight cryptography is impractical. Physical layer security (PLS) exploits channel randomness and spatial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yifan Zhang , Yishan Yang , Riku Jäntti , Zheng Yan , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Physical Layer Security (PLS) is an emerging concept in the field of secrecy for wireless communications that can be used alongside cryptography to prevent unauthorized devices from eavesdropping a legitimate transmission. It offers low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Leonardo Barbosa da Silva , Evelio Martín Garcia Fernández , Ândrei Camponogara

This paper develops a tractable framework for exploiting the potential benefits of physical layer security in three-tier wireless sensor networks using stochastic geometry. In such networks, the sensing data from the remote sensors are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Yansha Deng , Lifeng Wang , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Ranjan K. Mallik

This paper investigates the secrecy performance of sub-optimal transmitter selection (SS) and optimal selection (OS) schemes in a system comprising multiple transmitters, multiple eavesdroppers, and a single destination in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Shashi Bhushan Kotwal , Chinmoy Kundu , Sudhakar Modem , Mark F. Flanagan

In this paper, we study the problem of physical layer security in large-scale multiple input multiple output (LS-MIMO) systems. The large number of antenna elements in LS-MIMO system is exploited to enhance transmission security and improve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Xiaoming Chen , Chau Yuen , Zhaoyang Zhang

The physical-layer security issue in the multiple non-regenerative wireless-powered relay (WPR) networks is investigated in this letter, where the idle relay is treated as a potential eavesdropper. To guarantee secure communication, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Mingxiong Zhao , Xiangfeng Wang , Suili Feng

This letter studies information-theoretic security without knowing the eavesdropper's channel fading state. We present an alternative secrecy outage formulation to measure the probability that message transmissions fail to achieve perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay , Behrouz Maham , Are Hjorungnes

In the dynamic realm of 6G technology, emphasizing security is essential, particularly for optimizing high-performance communication. A notable strategy involves the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), an emerging and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Md. Abdur Rakib , Md. Ibrahim , A. S. M. Badrudduza , Imran Shafique Ansari

The channel state information (CSI) of an eavesdropper is crucial for physical layer security (PLS) design, but it is difficult to obtain due to the passive and non-cooperative nature of the eavesdropper. To this end, integrated sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Yiming Xu , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song , Dusit Niyato

Through ordinary transmissions over wireless multicast networks are greatly hampered due to the simultaneous presence of fading and shadowing of wireless channels, secure transmissions can be enhanced by properly exploiting random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 S. M. S. Shahriyer , A. S. M. Badrudduza , S. Shabab , M. K. Kundu , H. Yu

We study the physical-layer security of a multiple source-destination (SD) pairs coexisting wireless network in the face of an eavesdropper, where an eavesdropper intends to wiretap the signal transmitted by the SD pairs. In order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Xiaojin Ding , Yulong Zou , Xiaoshu Chen , Xiaojun Wang , Lajos Hanzo