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Preventing signal detection in communication and active sensing requires careful control of transmission power. In fact, the square-root laws (SRL) for covert classical and quantum communication and sensing prescribe that the average output…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Tianrui Tan , Evan J. D. Anderson , Michael S. Bullock , Boulat A. Bash

Covert communication aims to shield the very existence of wireless transmissions in order to guarantee a strong security in wireless networks. In this work, for the first time we examine the possibility and achievable performance of covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jinsong Hu , Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, we consider communication on a two-hop channel, in which a source wants to send information reliably and securely to the destination via a relay. We consider both the untrusted relay case and the external eavesdropper case.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Zhijie Ren , Jasper Goseling , Jos H. Weber , Michael Gastpar

We investigate the transmission of a secret message from Alice to Bob in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve) and many of decode-and-forward relay nodes. Each link comprises a set of parallel channels, modeling for example an orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Linda Senigagliesi , Marco Baldi , Stefano Tomasin

This work investigates the phase gain of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) covert communication over complex-valued additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. The transmitter Alice intends to transmit covert messages to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Sen Qiao , Daming Cao , Qiaosheng Zhang , Yinfei Xu , Guangjie Liu

Diffuse, multiple-scattered waves can be very efficient for information transfer through disordered media, provided that antenna arrays are used for both transmission and reception of signals. Information capacity C of a communication…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Skipetrov

This paper presents a number of fundamental properties of full-duplex radio for secure wireless communication under some simple and practical conditions. In particular, we consider the fields of secrecy capacity of a wireless channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Yingbo Hua , Qiping Zhu , Reza Sohrabi

We consider the problem of finding secrecy rate of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wire-tap channel. A transmitter, a legitimate receiver, and an eavesdropper are all equipped with multiple antennas. The channel states from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Arash Khabbazibasmenj , Maksym A. Girnyk , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Mikko Vehkaperä , Lars K. Rasmussen

This letter proposes a novel UAV-enabled mobile jamming scheme to improve the secrecy rate of ground wiretap channel. Specifically, a UAV is employed to transmit jamming signals to combat against eavesdropping. Such a mobile jamming scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 An Li , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Optical networks are vulnerable to physical layer attacks; wiretappers can improperly receive messages intended for legitimate recipients. Our work considers an aspect of this security problem within the domain of multimode fiber (MMF)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eva C. Song , Emina Soljanin , Paul Cuff , H. Vincent Poor , Kyle Guan

The coding problem for wiretap channels with causal channel state information available at the encoder and/or the decoder is studied under the strong secrecy criterion. This problem consists of two aspects: one is due to naive wiretap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Te Sun Han , Masahide Sasaki

In this paper, we examine the physical layer security for cooperative wireless networks with multiple intermediate nodes, where the decode-and-forward (DF) protocol is considered. We propose a new joint relay and jammer selection (JRJS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Haiyan Guo , Zhen Yang , Linghua Zhang , Jia Zhu , Yulong Zou

Alice and Bob are connected via a two-way channel, and Alice wants to send a message of $L$ bits to Bob. An adversary flips an arbitrary but finite number of bits, $T$, on the channel. This adversary knows our algorithm and Alice's message,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Abhinav Aggarwal , Varsha Dani , Thomas Hayes , Jared Saia

Alice and Bob want to share a secret key and to communicate an independent message, both of which they desire to be kept secret from an eavesdropper Eve. We study this problem of secret communication and secret key generation when two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Krishnan Eswaran , Kannan Ramchandran

In wireless data networks, communication is particularly susceptible to eavesdropping due to its broadcast nature. Security and privacy systems have become critical for wireless providers and enterprise networks. This paper considers the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ruoheng Liu , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, a novel covert semantic communication framework is investigated. Within this framework, a server extracts and transmits the semantic information, i.e., the meaning of image data, to a user over several time slots. An attacker…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenjing Zhang , Ye Hu , Tao Luo , Zhilong Zhang , Mingzhe Chen

We present a controlled quantum teleportation protocol. In the protocol, quantum information of an unknown state of a 2-level particle is faithfully transmitted from a sender (Alice) to a remote receiver (Bob) via an initially shared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T Gao , F L Yan , Z X Wang

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

This paper studies secrecy rate optimization in a wireless network with a single-antenna source, a multi-antenna destination and a multi-antenna eavesdropper. This is an unfavorable scenario for secrecy performance as the system is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Gan Zheng , Ioannis Krikidis , Jiangyuan Li , Athina P. Petropulu , Bjorn Ottersten

This paper considers a cooperative jamming (CJ)-aided secure wireless communication system. Conventionally, the jammer transmits Gaussian noise (GN) to enhance security; however, the GN scheme also degrades the legitimate receiver's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Hao Yang , Hao Xu , Kai Wan , Sijie Zhao , Robert Caiming Qiu