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A core challenge in physical-layer security is the difficulty of obtaining the channel state information (CSI) of potential eavesdroppers. The inherent sensing functionality of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems offers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yaxuan Chen , Guangchi Zhang , Miao Cui , Hao Fu , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

In this letter, we propose to employ movable antenna (MA) to enhance covert communications with noise uncertainty, where the confidential data is transmitted from an MA-aided access point (AP) to multiple users with a warden attempting to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Haobin Mao , Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

A rotatable antenna, which is able to dynamically adjust its deflection angle, is promising to achieve better physical layer security performance for wireless communications. In this paper, considering practical scenarios with non-real-time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pengchuan Jiang , Quanzhong Li , Lifeng Mai , Qi Zhang

In this paper, sensing-assisted secure communication in a multi-user multi-eavesdropper integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system is investigated. Confidential communication signals and dedicated sensing signals are jointly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Fanghao Xia , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Nanchi Su , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Jie Xu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)-enabled communication is a promising solution for secure air-to-ground (A2G) networks due to the additional secure degrees of freedom afforded by mobility. However, the jittering characteristics caused by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yimeng Ge , Jiancun Fan

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted a lot of research attention because of their high mobility and low cost in serving as temporary aerial base stations (BSs) and providing high data rates for next-generation communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Yuan-ai Xie , Yanyu Cheng , Jiawen Kang , Dong In Kim

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile data collector for the ground sensor nodes (SNs) is an energy-efficient technique to prolong the network lifetime. Specifically, since the UAV can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Cheng Zhan , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

The security of spatial modulation (SM) aided networks can always be improved by reducing the desired link's power at the cost of degrading its bit error ratio performance and assuming the power consumed to artificial noise (AN) projection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-27 Guiyang Xia , Yan Lin , Tingting Liu , Feng Shu , Lajos Hanzo

Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides computational services at the edge of networks by offloading tasks from user equipments (UEs). This letter employs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as the edge computing server to execute offloaded tasks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Yuwen Qian , Feifei Wang , Jun Li , Long Shi , Kui Cai , Feng Shu

In this paper, we consider the sum power minimization problem via jointly optimizing user association, power control, computation capacity allocation and location planning in a mobile edge computing (MEC) network with multiple unmanned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Zhaohui Yang , Cunhua Pan , Kezhi Wang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

This paper investigates robust secure communications in a near-field integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system, in which the base station (BS) is equipped with an extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA). In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Zixiang Ren , Siyao Zhang , Ling Qiu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jie Xu

In a unified system of passive radar and communication systems of joint transmitter platform, information intended for a communication receiver may be eavesdropped by a passive radar receiver (RR), thereby undermining the security of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Batu K. Chalise , Moeness G. Amin

This paper proposes a robust beamforming (BF) scheme to enhance physical layer security (PLS) of the downlink of a multibeam satellite system in the presence of either uncoordinated or coordinated eavesdroppers (Eves). Specifically, with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Jian Zhang , Min Lin , Jian Ouyang , Wei-Ping Zhu , Tomaso de Cola

Wireless communication enabled by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has emerged as an appealing technology for many application scenarios in future wireless systems. However, the limited endurance of UAVs greatly hinders the practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng , Yong Liang Guan , Rui Zhang

This letter introduces a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) structure into near-field localization systems to enhance the design flexibility of IRS, thereby obtaining additional performance gains.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Hanfu Zhang , Yidan Mei , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang

This paper considers a hybrid reconfigurable environment comprising a UAV-mounted reflecting RIS, an outdoor STAR-RIS enabling simultaneous transmission and reflection, and an indoor holographic RIS (H-RIS), jointly enhancing secure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Elhadj Moustapha Diallo , Mamadou Aliou Diallo , Abusaeed B. M. Adam , Muhammad Naeem Shah

We investigate transmission optimization for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-antenna systems from the physical-layer security perspective. The design goal is to maximize the system secrecy rate subject to the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Shulei Gong , Zhenyao He , Chunming Zhao

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is expected to revolutionize the existing integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system and promise a more flexible joint design. Nevertheless, the existing works on ISAC mainly focus on exploring the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Shaodan Ma , Wen Chen , Kunlun Wang , Jun Li

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) seamlessly integrates communication and computation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. Different from the existing works that focus on transceiver design of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen , Rui Zhang

Integrating the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the cellular network is envisioned to be a promising technology to significantly enhance the communication performance of both UAVs and existing terrestrial users. In this paper, we first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang