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In this work, we propose a new physical layer security framework for optical space networks. More precisely, we consider two practical eavesdropping scenarios: free-space optical (FSO) eavesdropping in the space and FSO eavesdropping in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Olfa Ben Yahia , Eylem Erdogan , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Ibrahim Altunbas , Halim Yanikomeroglu

We develop the proposal of non-systematic channel codes on the AWGN wire-tap channel. Such coding technique, based on scrambling, achieves high transmission security with a small degradation of the eavesdropper's channel with respect to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Marco Baldi , Marco Bianchi , Franco Chiaraluce

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a key enabler for providing signal coverage, energy efficiency, reliable communication, and physical layer security (PLS) in next-generation wireless communication networks. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Ahmet Muaz Aktas , Sefa Kayraklik , Sultangali Arzykulov , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev , Ibrahim Hokelek , Ali Gorcin

Data security is required when communications over untrusted networks takes place. Security tools such as cryptography and steganography are applied to achieve such objectives, but both have limitations and susceptible to attacks if they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Sherief H. Murad , Amr M. Gody , Tamer M. Barakat

Virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) systems are emerging technologies requiring data rates of multiple Gbps. Existing high quality VR headsets require connections through HDMI cables to a computer rendering rich graphic contents to meet…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Mahmudur Khan , Jacob Chakareski

The design of wireless systems for Mission Critical Machine Type Communication (MC-MTC) is currently a hot research topic. Wireless systems are considered to provide numerous advantages over wired systems in industrial applications for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Andreas Weinand , Abhijit Ambekar , Michael Karrenbauer , Hans D. Schotten

In this paper, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided underlay cognitive radio network is investigated. An RIS is utilized to improve the secondary network (SN) reliability and robustness while simultaneously increasing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Majid H. Khoshafa , Telex M. N. Ngatchede , Mohamed H. Ahmed

Backscatter wireless communication is an emerging technique widely used in low-cost and low-power wireless systems, especially in passive radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. Recently, the requirement of high data rates, data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Qian Yang , Hui-Ming Wang , Yi Zhang , Zhu Han

Visual cryptography aims to protect images against their possible illegitimate use. Thus, one can cipher, hash, or add watermarks for protecting copyright, among others. In this paper we provide a new solution to the problem of secret…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 José Ignacio Farrán , David Cerezo

This letter investigates physical layer security in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided visible light communication (VLC). Under the point source assumption, we first elaborate the system model in the scenario with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Shiyuan Sun , Fang Yang , Jian Song , Zhu Han

In this paper, we study physical layer security for the downlink of cellular networks, where the confidential messages transmitted to each mobile user can be eavesdropped by both (i) the other users in the same cell and (ii) the users in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Giovanni Geraci , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Jinhong Yuan , Iain B. Collings

In this paper, we design robust beamforming to guarantee the physical layer security for a multiuser beam division multiple access (BDMA) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, when the channel estimation errors are taken…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Fengchao Zhu , Feifei Gao , Hai Lin , Shi Jin , Junhui Zhao

Covert communication offers a method to transmit messages in such a way that it is not possible to detect that the communication is happening at all. In this work, we report an experimental demonstration of covert communication that is…

In this paper, we study the receiver performance with physical layer security in a Poisson field of interferers. We compare the performance in two deployment scenarios: (i) the receiver is located at the corner of a quadrant, (ii) the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Konstantinos Koufos , Carl P. Dettmann

In the era of big data, anonymity is recognized as an important attribute in privacy-preserving communications. The existing anonymous authentication and routing are applied at higher layers of networks, ignoring physical layer (PHY) also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Zhongxiang Wei , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , H. Vincent Poor

Semantic communication (SemCom) has the potential to significantly reduce communication delay in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications within vehicular networks (VNs). However, the deployment of vehicular SemCom networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yanghe Pan , Yuntao Wang , Shaolong Guo , Chengyu Yin , Ruidong Li , Zhou Su , Yuan Wu

Cooperative jamming is an approach that has been recently proposed for improving physical layer based security for wireless networks in the presence of an eavesdropper. While the source transmits its message to its destination, a relay node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-30 Lun Dong , Zhu Han , Athina P. Petropulu , H. Vincent Poor

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), equipped with numerous sensors such as camera, LiDAR, radar, and ultrasonic sensor, are revolutionizing the transportation industry. These sensors are expected to sense reliable information from a physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jianzhi Lou , Qiben Yan , Qing Hui , Huacheng Zeng

This paper proposes a visual encryption method to ensure the confidentiality of digital images. The model used is based on an autoencoder using aConvolutional Neural Network (CNN) to ensure the protection of the user data on both the sender…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Mahdi Madani , El-Bay Bourennane

Dual-functional radar communication (DFRC) system has recently attracted significant academic attentions as an enabling solution for realizing radar-communication spectrum sharing. During the DFRC transmission, however, the critical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Nanchi Su , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros