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In this paper, we investigate physical-layer security for a heterogeneous cellular network consisting of a macro cell and a small cell in the presence of a passive eavesdropper that intends to tap both the macro-cell and small-cell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Yulong Zou , Tong Wu , Ming Sun , Jia Zhu , Mujun Qian , Chen Liu

The sixth generation of wireless networks defined several key performance indicators (KPIs) for assessing its networks, mainly in terms of reliability, coverage, and sensing. In this regard, remarkable attention has been paid recently to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Waqas Aman , El-Mehdi Illi , Marwa Qaraqe , Saif Al-Kuwari

This paper proposes a robust beamforming scheme to enhance the physical layer security (PLS) of multicast transmission in a cognitive satellite and aerial network (CSAN) operating in the millimeter wave frequency band. Based on imperfect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-14 Bai Zhao , Min Lin , Ming Cheng , Wei-Ping Zhu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Wireless vehicular network (WVN) is exponentially gaining attention from industries and researchers since it is the Keystone of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Despite the sophisticated features and services that it can offer, it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Neji Mensi , Danda B. Rawat , Elyes Balti

Traditional physical layer secure beamforming is achieved via precoding before signal transmission using channel state information (CSI). However, imperfect CSI will compromise the performance with imperfect beamforming and potential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Tongyang Xu , Zhongxiang Wei , Tianhua Xu , Gan Zheng

5G NR is touted to be an attractive candidate for tactical networks owing to its versatility, scalability, and low cost. However, tactical networks need to be stealthy, where an adversary is not able to detect or intercept the tactical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Karthik Upadhya , Akshay Jain , Mikko A. Uusitalo , Harish Viswanathan

In this paper we study secure energy efficiency (SEE) for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a distributed antenna system (DAS) based IoT network. We consider a system in which both legitimate users (Bobs) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Aaqib Bulla , Shahid M Shah

In the spectrum-sharing technology, a secondary user may utilize the primary user's licensed band as long as its interference to the primary user is below a tolerable value. In this paper, we consider a scenario in which a secondary user is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-01 Junwei Zhang , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

In this paper, we analyze the secrecy outage performance for more realistic eavesdropping scenario of free-space optical (FSO) communications, where the main and wiretap links are correlated. The FSO fading channels are modeled by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Yun Ai , Aashish Mathur , Long Kong , Michael Cheffena

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications are highly promising to improve the capacity of modern wireless networks, while the physical layer security (PLS) techniques hold great potential to enhance the critical secrecy performance therein.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Yuanyu Zhang , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang , Shoji Kasahara

In this paper, we propose an enhanced physical layer security approach, named joint secrecy and covert communication (JSACC), which aims to improve the performance of physical layer security (PLS). The JSACC system can dynamically switch…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Yanyu Cheng , Haitao Du , Liqin Hu , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Pan Li

This paper studies a downlink secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) transmits confidential messages to a single-antenna communication user (CU) while performing sensing on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Zixiang Ren , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This work investigates the security and reliability analysis for a novel satellite-terrestrial (SatTer) network. Specifically, a satellite attempts to transmit confidential information to a ground user (GU) via the support of multiple relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Tan N. Nguyen , Dinh-Hieu Tran , Trinh Van Chien , Van-Duc Phan , Miroslav Voznak , Symeon Chatzinotas

Wireless physical-layer security is an emerging field of research aiming at preventing eavesdropping in an open wireless medium. In this paper, we propose a novel waveform design approach to minimize the likelihood that a message…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Ming Li , Sandipan Kundu , Dimitris A. Pados , Stella N. Batalama

This paper investigates the downlink (DL) physical layer security (PLS) in a near-field (NF) extra-large multiple-input multiple-output MIMO (XL-MIMO) system. To enhance the secrecy rate (SR), null-space artificial noise (AN) is transmitted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xiangjun Ma , Ali Arshad Nasir , Daniel Benevides da Costa

This paper studies the physical layer security of a vehicular communication network in the presence of interference constraints by analysing its secrecy capacity. The system considers a legitimate receiver node and an eavesdropper node,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Abubakar U. Makarfi , Rupak Kharel , Khaled M. Rabie , Omprakash Kaiwartya , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev

This paper investigates the physical-layer security for a random indoor visible light communication (VLC) network with imperfect channel state information (CSI) and a protected zone. The VLC network consists of three nodes, i.e., a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jin-Yuan Wang , Yu Qiu , Sheng-Hong Lin , Jun-Bo Wang , Min Lin , Cheng Liu

Considering a multi-user interference network with an eavesdropper, this paper aims at the power allocation to optimize the worst secrecy throughput among the network links or the secure energy efficiency in terms of achieved secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Zhichao Sheng , Hoang Duong Tuan , Ali Arshad Nasir , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we investigate the performance of physical-layer security of a pinching-antenna system on a lossless dielectric waveguide. In particular, the system uses a single pinching-antenna to convey confidential information from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Osamah S. Badarneh , Hugerles S. Silva , Yazan H. Al Badarneh

Wireless signals are commonly used for communications. Emerging applications are giving new functions to wireless signals, in which wireless sensing is the most attractive one. Channel state information (CSI) is not only the parameter for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Tongyang Xu