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The multipath-rich wireless environment associated with typical wireless usage scenarios is characterized by a fading channel response that is time-varying, location-sensitive, and uniquely shared by a given transmitter-receiver pair. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-10-28 Chunxuan Ye , Suhas Mathur , Alex Reznik , Yogendra Shah , Wade Trappe , Narayan Mandayam

This work investigates the covertness and security performance of Internet-of-Things (IoTs) networks under Rayleigh fading environments. Specifically, a cellular source transmits covert information to cell-edge users with the assistance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Thai-Hoc Vu , Anh-Tu Le , Ngo Hoang Tu , Tan N. Nguyen , Miroslav Voznak

Nodes in contemporary radio networks often have multiple interfaces available for communication: WiFi, cellular, LoRa, Zigbee, etc. This motivates understanding both link and network configuration when multiple communication modalities with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Amna Gillani , Beatriz Lorenzo , Majid Ghaderi , Fikadu Dagefu , Dennis Goeckel

We study the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over Rayleigh block-fading channels with a receiver equipped with multiple antennas. We employ multiple stages of orthogonal pilots, each of which is randomly picked from a codebook. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Tolga M. Duman

Covert transmission is investigated for a cooperative deception strategy, where a cooperative jammer (Jammer) tries to attract a multi-antenna adversary (Willie) and degrade the adversary's reception ability for the signal from a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Jiangbo Si , Zizhen Liu , Zan Li , Hang Hu , Lei Guan , Chao Wang , Naofal Al-Dhahir

We consider the multi-antenna wiretap channel in which the transmitter wishes to send a confidential message to its receiver while keeping it secret to the eavesdropper. It has been known that the secrecy capacity of such a channel does not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mari Kobayashi , Pablo Piantanida , Sheng Yang , Shlomo Shamai

This paper establishes the fundamental limits of a multi-access system where multiple users communicate to a legitimate receiver in presence of an external warden. Only a specific subset of the users, called covert users, needs their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

This paper studies physical-layer secure transmissions from a transmitter to a legitimate receiver against an eavesdropper over slow fading channels, taking into account the impact of finite blocklength secrecy coding. A comprehensive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

We study covert classical communication over a quantum multiple-access channel (MAC) with a helper. Specifically, we consider three transmitters, where one transmitter helps the other two transmitters communicate covertly with a receiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Hassan ZivariFard , Rémi A. Chou , Xiaodong Wang

Wireless networks with directional antennas, like millimeter wave (mmWave) networks, have enhanced security. For a large-scale mmWave ad hoc network in which eavesdroppers are randomly located, however, eavesdroppers can still intercept the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Yongxu Zhu , Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Robert W. Heath

Caching at base stations is a promising technology to satisfy the increasing capacity requirements and reduce the backhaul loads in future wireless networks. Careful design of random caching can fully exploit the file popularity and achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Sufeng Kuang , Nan Liu

Random access protocols relying on the transmission of packet replicas in multiple slots and exploiting interference cancellation at the receiver have been shown to achieve per- formance competitive with that of orthogonal schemes. So far…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Federico Clazzer , Enrico Paolini , Iacopo Mambelli , Cedomir Stefanovic

In this paper, we study wireless networked control systems in which the sensing devices are powered by energy harvesting. We consider a scenario with multiple plants, where the sensors communicate their measurements to their respective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Miguel Calvo-Fullana , Carles Antón-Haro , Javier Matamoros , Alejandro Ribeiro

The capacity of the Gaussian wiretap channel model is analyzed when there are multiple antennas at the sender, intended receiver and eavesdropper. The associated channel matrices are fixed and known to all the terminals. A computable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ashish Khisti , Gregory Wornell

5G wireless networks are expected to support new services with stringent requirements on data rates, latency and reliability. One novel feature is the ability to serve a dense crowd of devices, calling for radically new ways of accessing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Elisabeth de Carvalho , Emil Björnson , Jesper H. Sørensen , Petar Popovski , Erik G. Larsson

This paper investigates the multi-antenna covert communications assisted by a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS). In particular, to shelter the existence of covert communications between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Pengcheng Mu , Wenjie Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang

A two-transmitter Gaussian multiple access wiretap channel with multiple antennas at each of the nodes is investigated. The channel matrices at the legitimate terminals are fixed and revealed to all the terminals, whereas the channel matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-08 Xiang He , Ashish Khisti , Aylin Yener

In this paper, we study the problem of secret communication over a multiple-access channel with a common message. Here, we assume that two transmitters have confidential messages, which must be kept secret from the wiretapper (the second…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Hassan Zivari-Fard , Bahareh Akhbari , Mahmoud Ahmadian-Attari , Mohammad Reza Aref

This paper considers a simple on-off random multiple access channel, where n users communicate simultaneously to a single receiver over m degrees of freedom. Each user transmits with probability lambda, where typically lambda n < m << n,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-09 Alyson K. Fletcher , Sundeep Rangan , Vivek K Goyal

Traffic analysis in Multi-hop Wireless Networks can expose the structure of the network allowing attackers to focus their efforts on critical nodes. For example, jamming the only data sink in a sensor network can cripple the network. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ke Liu , Adnan Majeed , Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh