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We propose a comprehensive framework exploiting the polarization sensitive array (PLA) to improve the physical layer security of wireless communications. More specifically, the polarization difference among signals is utilized to improve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Shiqi Gong , Chengwen Xing , Sheng Chen , Zesong Fei

This paper investigates the physical layer security (PLS) performance of $\alpha$-$\mathcal{F}$ fading channels with pointing errors under passive and active eavesdropping scenarios. Novel analytical expressions are derived for key PLS…

Pinching antenna (PA) systems provide a new spatial degree of freedom by flexible activation of pinching positions. However, the resulting effective channel strongly depends on the activated pinching positions, rendering conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Yiwei Tao , Yao Ge , Dong Li , Miaowen Wen , Merouane Debbah

Emitting phased array RF systems have to contend with an ever-increasing number of eavesdroppers as technological advancements provide lower cost and/or more capable radios. Often, eavesdroppers can accumulate sufficient information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 David Couto , Arash Samani , Alec Yonika

Physical layer security (PLS) technology based on the fixed-position antenna (FPA) has {attracted widespread attention}. Due to the fixed feature of the antennas, current FPA-based PLS schemes cannot fully utilize the spatial degree of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhiyong Feng , Yujia Zhao , Kan Yu , Dong Li

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been viewed as a potential candidate for the upcoming generation of wireless communication systems. Comparing to traditional orthogonal multiple access (OMA), multiplexing users in the same…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Saeid Pakravan , Jean-Yves Chouinard , Xingwang Li , Ming Zeng , Wanming Hao , Quoc-Viet Pham , Octavia A. Dobre

Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising paradigm for safeguarding 6G wireless networks by exploiting the inherent characteristics of wireless channels. However, the efficiency of conventional PLS is often limited by fixed orientation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ailing Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Xingxiang Peng , Qiaoyan Peng , Ziyuan Zheng , Yuxuan Chen , Wen Chen

In smart city development, the automatic detection of structures and vehicles within urban or suburban areas via array radar (airborne or vehicle platforms) becomes crucial. However, the inescapable multipath effect adversely affects the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-26 Yizhen Jia , Jie Cheng , Wen-Qin Wang , Hui Chen

The advancement of future large-scale wireless networks necessitates the development of cost-effective and scalable security solutions. Conventional cryptographic methods, due to their computational and key management complexity, are unable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Alireza Nooraiepour , Shaghayegh Vosoughitabar , Chung-Tse Michael Wu , Waheed U. Bajwa , Narayan B. Mandayam

A frequency domain (FD) time-reversal (TR) precoder is proposed to perform physical layer security (PLS) in single-input single-output (SISO) system using orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). To maximize the secrecy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Sidney Golstein , Trung-Hien Nguyen , François Horlin , Philippe De Doncker , Julien Sarrazin

In this paper, we consider the Physical Layer Security(PLS) problem in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) based dual-hop system which consists of multiple users, multiple amplify and forward relays, and an eavesdropper.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Waqas Aman , Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu , Tayyaba Jabeen , Feifei Gao , Shi Jin

Physical layer security is investigated over mixture Gamma (MG) distributed fading channels with discrete inputs. By the Gaussian quadrature rules, closed-form expressions are derived to characterize the average secrecy rate (ASR) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Chongjun Ouyang , Sheng Wu , Chunxiao Jiang , Julian Cheng , Hongwen Yang

Federated learning (FL) enables edge devices to collaboratively train machine learning models, with model communication replacing direct data uploading. While over-the-air model aggregation improves communication efficiency, uploading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hang Liu , Jia Yan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

The evolution of mobile communication networks has always been accompanied by the advancement of ISI mitigation techniques, from equalization in 2G, spread spectrum and RAKE receiver in 3G, to OFDM in 4G and 5G. Looking forward towards 6G,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) has been widely studied for capacity enhancement, but its potential for physical layer security (PLS) remains largely unexplored. By adjusting both three-dimensional (3D) positions and 3D rotations of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Yanzhi Qian , Jing Jiang , Jingze Ding , Xiaoshao Dan , Hongyun Chu

With the evolution of mobile communication systems toward large-scale arrays, high-frequency operation, and reconfigurable antenna architectures, fluid antenna systems (FAS) operating in the near-field (NF) regime provide new degrees of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Peng Zhang , Jian Dang , Miaowen Wen , Ziyang Liu , Chen Zhao , Huaifeng Shi , Chengsheng Pan , Zaichen Zhang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned as a prospective technology to enable ubiquitous sensing and communications in next-generation wireless networks. In contrast to existing works on reconfigurable intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Hanyu Yang , Shiqi Gong , Heng Liu , Chengwen Xing , Nan Zhao , Dusit Niyato

When a target is masked by mainlobe clutter with the same Doppler frequency, it is difficult for conventional airborne radars to determine whether a target is present in a given observation using regular space-time adaptive processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Wenkai Jia , Andreas Jakobsson , Wen-Qin Wang

Capacity is the eternal pursuit for communication systems due to the overwhelming demand of bandwidth hungry applications. As the backbone infrastructure of modern communication networks, the optical fiber transmission system undergoes a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Qiong Wu , Zhenhua Feng , Ming Tang , Xiang Li , Ming Luo , Huibin Zhou , Songnian Fu , Deming Liu

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