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Wavefront engineering for applications in near-field wireless connectivity is gradually becoming common ground. In this landscape, beams that propagate on bent paths are ideal candidates for dynamic blockage avoidance and suppression of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Sotiris Droulias , Giorgos Stratidakis , Angeliki Alexiou

When there exists a malicious attacker in the network, we need to consider the possibilities of eavesdropping and the contamination simultaneously. Under an acyclic broadcast network, the optimality of linear codes was shown when Eve is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Masahito Hayashi , Ning Cai

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

As a promising technology, physical layer security (PLS) enhances security by leveraging the physical characteristics of communication channels. However, it commonly takes the legitimate user more effort to secure its data, compared to that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Wenwen Chen , Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Anke Schmeink , Hans D. Schotten

We investigate the potentials of applying the coded caching paradigm in wireless networks. In order to do this, we investigate physical layer schemes for downlink transmission from a multiantenna transmitter to several cache-enabled users.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Giuseppe Caire , Babak Hossein Khalaj

Millimeter wave (mmWave) vehicular communica tion systems have the potential to improve traffic efficiency and safety. Lack of secure communication links, however, may lead to a formidable set of abuses and attacks. To secure communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Mohammed E. Eltayeb , Junil Choi , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Robert W. Heath

In Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), inference based on communicated data is of critical significance as it can be used to manipulate or damage the control operations by adversaries. This calls for efficient mechanisms for secure transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , Mohammed Karmoose , Suhas Diggavi , Christina Fragouli , Paulo Tabuada

A natural choice for quantum communication is to use the relative phase between two paths of a single-photon for information encoding. This method was nevertheless quickly identified as impractical over long distances and thus a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-06 A. Alarcón , J. Argillander , G. Lima , G. B. Xavier

Quantum computers will change the cryptographic panorama. A technology once believed to lay far away into the future is increasingly closer to real world applications. Quantum computers will break the algorithms used in our public key…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Alejandro Aguado , Victor Lopez , Diego Lopez , Momtchil Peev , Andreas Poppe , Antonio Pastor , Jesus Folgueira , Vicente Martiin

As a subfield of network coding, physical-layer network coding (PNC) can effectively enhance the throughput of wireless networks by mapping superimposed signals at receiver to other forms of user messages. Over the past twenty years, PNC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-25 Pingping Chen , Zhaopeng Xie , Yi Fang , Zhifeng Chen , Shahid Mumtaz , Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

Multimode fibres (MMF) are remarkable high-capacity information channels owing to the large number of transmitting fibre modes, and have recently attracted significant renewed interest in applications such as optical communication, imaging,…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-27 Pengfei Fan , Tianrui Zhao , Lei Su

Wireless communication provides a wide coverage at the cost of exposing information to unintended users. As an information-theoretic paradigm, secrecy rate derives bounds for secure transmission when the channel to the eavesdropper is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ashkan Kalantari , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Sina Maleki , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Quantum communication aims to provide absolutely secure transmission of secret information. State-of-the-art methods encode symbols into single photons or coherent light with much less than one photon on average. For long distance…

Noncontact exfiltration of electronic screen content poses a security challenge, with side-channel incursions as the principal vector. We introduce an optical projection side-channel paradigm that confronts two core instabilities: (i) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zhiwen Zheng , Yuheng Qiao , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Zhao Huang , Tao Zhang , Huiyu Zhou , Shaowei Jiang , Jin Liu , Wenwen Tang , Xingru Huang

The physical layer security (PLS) performance of a wireless communication link through a large reflecting surface (LRS) with phase errors is analyzed. Leveraging recent results that express the \ac{LRS}-based composite channel as an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jose David Vega Sanchez , Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

Physical layer security (PLS) is critically important for emerging wireless communication networks to maintain the confidentiality of the information of legitimate users. In this paper, we investigate enhancing PLS in an unmanned aerial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Nadisanka Rupasinghe , Yavuz Yapici , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

One of the greatest challenges in utilizing multimode optical fibers is mode-mixing and inter-modal interference, which scramble the information delivered by the fiber. A common approach for canceling these effects is to tailor the optical…

In this paper, we present an efficient implementation method of physical layer of Y-00 which can support a secure communication and a quantum key distribution (more generally key expansion) by IMDD(intensity modulation/direct detection) or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Osamu Hirota , Kentaro Kato , Masaki Shoma , Tsuyoshi Sasaki Usuda

With growing popularity of mobile Internet, providing secure wireless services has become a critical issue. Physical layer security (PHY-security) has been recognized as an effective means to enhance wireless security by exploiting wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaoming Chen , Caijun Zhong , Chau Yuen , Hsiao-Hwa Chen

Light transport in a highly multimode fiber exhibits complex behavior in space, time, frequency and polarization, especially in the presence of mode coupling. The newly developed techniques of spatial wavefront shaping turn out to be highly…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-06 Hui Cao , Tomáš Čižmár , Sergey Turtaev , Tomáš Tyc , Stefan Rotter