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Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising technology to secure wireless communications by exploiting the physical properties of the wireless channel. However, the passive nature of PLS creates a significant imbalance between the effort…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wenwen Chen , Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Anke Schmeink , Giuseppe Caire , Hans D. Schotten

In low-altitude wireless communications, the increased complexity of wireless channels and the uncertainty of eavesdroppers (Eves)--caused by diverse altitudes, speeds, and obstacles--pose significant challenges to physical layer security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yujia Zhao , Zhiyong Feng , Kan Yu , Qixun Zhang , Dong Li

In this work, novel physical layer security (PLS) schemes are proposed for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) to secure both data and pilots. The majority of previous studies focus on only securing the data without…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Salah Eddine Zegrar , Haji M. Furqan , Huseyin Arslan

In this paper, we investigate the sensing-aided physical layer security (PLS) towards Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems. A well-known limitation of PLS is the need to have information about potential eavesdroppers (Eves).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Nanchi Su , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros

The potential of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) for energy-efficient and performance-boosted wireless communications is recently gaining remarkable research attention, motivating their consideration for various $5$-th Generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Miaowen Wen , Daniel B. da Costa

This paper addresses Physical Layer Security (PLS) for a wireless sensor network in which multiple sensor nodes communicate with a single sink in the presence of an eavesdropper. Under the assumption of sink using outdated channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Furqan Jameel , Shurjeel Wyne , Ioannis Krikidis

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless medium, wireless communication is highly vulnerable to eavesdropping attack. Traditionally, secure wireless data transmission has relied on cryptographic techniques at the network layer which incur…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Binh Van Nguyen , Hyoyoung Jung , Kiseon Kim

In this letter, we consider a multi-antenna downlink network where a secure user (SU) coexists with a passive eavesdropper. There are two design requirements for such a network. First, the information should be transferred in a secret and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Xiaoming Chen , Lei Lei

Passive eavesdropping compromises confidentiality in wireless networks, especially in resource-constrained environments where heavyweight cryptography is impractical. Physical layer security (PLS) exploits channel randomness and spatial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yifan Zhang , Yishan Yang , Riku Jäntti , Zheng Yan , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Caching popular contents is a promising way to offload the mobile data traffic in wireless networks, but so far the potential advantage of caching in improving physical layer security (PLS) is rarely considered. In this paper, we contribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Wu Zhao , Zhiyong Chen , Kuikui Li , Bin Xia

This paper investigates the performance of physical layer security (PLS) in fluid antenna-aided communication systems under arbitrary correlated fading channels. In particular, it is considered that a single fixed-antenna transmitter aims…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Wee Kiat New , Hao Xu , Chan-Byoung Chae

The extensive deployment of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites introduces significant security challenges for communication security issues in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. With the rising number of satellites potentially acting as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Anna Talgat , Ruibo Wang , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Physical layer security (PLS) is critically important for emerging wireless communication networks to maintain the confidentiality of the information of legitimate users. In this paper, we investigate enhancing PLS in an unmanned aerial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Nadisanka Rupasinghe , Yavuz Yapici , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

The integration of sensing and communication enables wireless communication systems to serve environment-aware applications. In this paper, we propose to leverage sensing to enhance physical layer security (PLS) in multiuser communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Dongfang Xu , Yiming Xu , Zhiqiang Wei , Shenghui Song , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

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

Information-theoretic security -- widely accepted as the strictest notion of security -- relies on channel coding techniques that exploit the inherent randomness of the propagation channels to significantly strengthen the security of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-22 Pedro C. Pinto , Joao Barros , Moe Z. Win

The physical layer security (PLS) performance of a wireless communication link through a large reflecting surface (LRS) with phase errors is analyzed. Leveraging recent results that express the \ac{LRS}-based composite channel as an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jose David Vega Sanchez , Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

Physical layer security has been recently recognized as a promising new design paradigm to provide security in wireless networks. In addition to the existing conventional cryptographic methods, physical layer security exploits the dynamics…

The physical-layer security issue in the multiple non-regenerative wireless-powered relay (WPR) networks is investigated in this letter, where the idle relay is treated as a potential eavesdropper. To guarantee secure communication, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Mingxiong Zhao , Xiangfeng Wang , Suili Feng

In this letter, we study relay-aided networks with presence of single eavesdropper. We provide joint beamforming design of the source and relay that can minimize the overall power consumption while satisfying our predefined…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-26 Meng Zhang , Jian Huang , Hui Yu , Hanwen Luo , Wen Chen