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In this paper, we propose a statistical theory on measurement and estimation of Rayleigh fading channels in wireless communications and provide complete solutions to the fundamental problems: What is the optimum estimator for the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-07-03 Xinjia Chen , Guoxiang Gu , Kemin Zhou

In this paper, we consider the issue of covert communications with random access protocol. We consider that the legitimate user Bob has no priori knowledge about packet arrival time and thus employs data-aided frame detection based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Weile Zhang , Nan Zhao , Shun Zhang , F. Richard Yu

Instead of against eavesdropping, this letter proposes a new paradigm in wireless security by studying how a legitimate monitor (e.g., government agencies) efficiently eavesdrops a suspicious wireless communication link. The suspicious…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

Joint-channel carrier-phase estimation can improve the performance of multichannel optical communication systems. In the case of pilot-aided estimation, the pilots are distributed over a two-dimensional channel--time symbol block that is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Arni F. Alfredsson , Erik Agrell , Magnus Karlsson , Henk Wymeersch

Covert communication, also known as low probability of detection (LPD) communication, prevents the adversary from knowing that a communication is taking place. Recent work has demonstrated that, in a three-party scenario with a transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Ramin Soltani , Boulat Bash , Dennis Goeckel , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley

Characterizing the fundamental tradeoffs for maximizing energy efficiency (EE) versus spectrum efficiency (SE) is a key problem in wireless communication. In this paper, we address this problem for a point-to-point additive white Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, pilot-symbol-assisted transmission in cognitive radio systems over time selective flat fading channels is studied. It is assumed that causal and noncausal Wiener filter estimators are used at the secondary receiver with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Sami Akin , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

Unreliable fading wireless channels are the main challenge for strict performance guarantees in mobile communications. Diversity schemes including massive number of antennas, huge spectrum bands and multi-connectivity links are applied to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Karl-Ludwig Besser , Eduard A. Jorswieck

We consider the situation in which a transmitter attempts to communicate reliably over a discrete memoryless channel while simultaneously ensuring covertness (low probability of detection) with respect to a warden, who observes the signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Matthieu R. Bloch

Covert communication is the undetected transmission of sensitive information over a communication channel. In wireless communication systems, channel impairments such as signal fading present challenges in the effective implementation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amir Reza Ramtin , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley

We investigate a pilot allocation problem in wireless networks over Markovian fading channels. In wireless systems, the Channel State Information (CSI) is collected at the Base Station (BS), in particular, this paper considers a pilot-aided…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Maialen Larranaga , Mohamad Assaad , Apostolos Destounis , Georgios S. Paschos

Impedance matching between receive antenna and front-end significantly impacts channel capacity in wireless channels. To implement capacity-optimal matching, the receiver must know the antenna impedance. But oftentimes this impedance varies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Shaohan Wu , Brian L. Hughes

Pilot contamination is a limiting factor in multicell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems because it can severely impair channel estimation. Prior works have suggested coordinating pilot design across cells in order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Kaiming Shen , Hei Victor Cheng , Xihan Chen , Yonina C. Eldar , Wei Yu

Covert communication is to achieve a reliable transmission from a transmitter to a receiver while guaranteeing an arbitrarily small probability of this transmission being detected by a warden. In this work, we study the covert communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Shihao Yan , Biao He , Yirui Cong , Xiangyun Zhou

The study of the fundamental limits of covert communications, where a transmitter Alice wants to send information to a desired recipient Bob without detection of that transmission by an attentive and capable warden Willie, has emerged…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-16 Moslem Forouzesh , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari , Dennis Goeckel

This paper considers pilot design to mitigate pilot contamination and provide good service for everyone in multi-cell Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. Instead of modeling the pilot design as a combinatorial assignment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We consider the problem of secure communication with multi-antenna transmission in fading channels. The transmitter simultaneously transmits an information bearing signal to the intended receiver and artificial noise to the eavesdroppers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay

In distributed detection systems with wireless sensor networks, the communication between sensors and a fusion center is not perfect due to interference and limited transmitter power at the sensors to combat noise at the fusion center's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Xin Zhang , H. Vincent Poor , Mung Chiang

Radar sensing will be integrated into the 6G communication system to support various applications. In this integrated sensing and communication system, a radar target may also be a communication channel scatterer. In this case, the radar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Zhe Huang , Kexuan Wang , An Liu , Yunlong Cai , Rui Du , Tony Xiao Han

A network of n communication links, operating over a shared wireless channel, is considered. Fading is assumed to be the dominant factor affecting the strength of the channels between transmitter and receiver terminals. It is assumed that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Masoud Ebrahimi , Mohammad A. Maddah-Ali , Amir K. Khandani