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Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (laser) sources have many advantages for use in high data rate optical wireless communications. In particular, the low cost and high-bandwidth properties of laser sources such as…

Covert channels are communication channels used by attackers to transmit information from a compromised system when the access control policy of the system does not allow doing so. Previous work has shown that CPU frequency scaling can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Manuel Kalmbach , Mathias Gottschlag , Tim Schmidt , Frank Bellosa

Covert communications hide the transmission of a message from a watchful adversary while ensuring a certain decoding performance at the receiver. In this work, a wireless communication system under fading channels is considered where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Feng Shu , Jun Li

A covert communication system under block fading channels is considered where users experience uncertainty about their channel knowledge. The transmitter seeks to hide the covert communication to a private user by exploiting a legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan

This paper investigates the physical-layer security for a random indoor visible light communication (VLC) network with imperfect channel state information (CSI) and a protected zone. The VLC network consists of three nodes, i.e., a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jin-Yuan Wang , Yu Qiu , Sheng-Hong Lin , Jun-Bo Wang , Min Lin , Cheng Liu

Suppose that a transmitter Alice potentially wishes to communicate with a receiver Bob over an adversarially jammed binary channel. An active adversary James eavesdrops on their communication over a binary symmetric channel (BSC(q)), and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Qiaosheng Zhang , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

Terahertz communications offer unprecedented data rates for next-generation wireless networks but suffer blockage susceptibility that restrict coverage and introduce physical-layer security vulnerabilities. Non-line-of-sight relay schemes…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Peian Li , Wenbo Liu , Jiabiao Zhao , Jiayuan Cui , Yapeng Ge , Qiang Niu , Yuping Yang , Xiangzhu Meng , Jianjun Ma

In this work, we investigate the problem of secure broadcasting over block-fading wiretap channels with limited channel knowledge at the transmitter. More particularly, we analyze the effect of having a finite rate feedback on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Amal Hyadi , Zouheir Rezki , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We consider that a transmitter covertly communicates with multiple receivers under the help of a friendly jammer. The messages intended for different receivers are transmitted in mutually orthogonal frequency bands. An adversary observes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Ke-Wen Huang , Hao Deng , Hui-Ming Wang

This paper investigates the physical-layer security for an indoor visible light communication (VLC) network consisting of a transmitter, a legitimate receiver and an eavesdropper. Both the main channel and the wiretapping channel have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jin-Yuan Wang , Cheng Liu , Jun-Bo Wang , Yongpeng Wu , Min Lin , Julian Cheng

This work presents novel achievable schemes for the 2-user symmetric linear deterministic interference channel with limited-rate transmitter cooperation and perfect secrecy constraints at the receivers. The proposed achievable scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Parthajit Mohapatra , Chandra R. Murthy

A secure key distribution protocol protected by light's noise was introduced in 2003 [Phys. Rev. A 68, 052307 (2003)]. That protocol utilized the shot noise of light present in the optical channel (eg., an optical fiber) to restrict…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Geraldo A. Barbosa

Most electronic devices utilize mechanical keyboards to receive inputs, including sensitive information such as authentication credentials, personal and private data, emails, plans, etc. However, these systems are susceptible to acoustic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Alireza Taheritajar , Zahra Mahmoudpour Harris , Reza Rahaeimehr

Achieving secure communications in networks has been one of the most important problems in information technology. Dolev, Dwork, Waarts, and Yung have studied secure message transmission in one-way or two-way channels. They only consider…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yvo Desmedt , Yongge Wang

The measurement of the optical Transmission Matrix (TM) enables to access "open channels": input patterns, specific to each scattering structure, capable to deliver very high transmission. Various approaches, based either on multiple…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-23 Marco Leonetti , Luca Leuzzi , Giancarlo Ruocco

This work models a secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system as a wiretap channel with action-dependent channel states and channel output feedback, e.g., obtained through reflections. The transmitted message is split into a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Truman Welling , Onur Günlü , Aylin Yener

Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) is regarded as an auspicious communication approach that can outperform the existing wireless technology. It utilizes LED lights, whose subtle variation in radiant intensity generate a binary data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Fadi Al-Turjman , Diletta Cacciagrano , Leonardo Mostarda , Mattia Paccamiccio , Zaib Ullah

Multiple light scattering in tissue limits the penetration of optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging. Here, we present in-vivo OCT imaging of a live mouse using wavefront shaping to enhance the penetration depth. A digital micro-mirror…

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical layer security has always been a fundamental but challenging problem. Recent advance of Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) introduces a new dimension for secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Jian Li , Lan Zhang , Kaiping Xue , Yuguang Fang

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