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The existing research on physical layer security commonly assumes the number of eavesdropper antennas to be known. Although this assumption allows one to easily compute the achievable secrecy rate, it can hardly be realized in practice. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou , Thushara D. Abhayapala

In this paper, we propose a cooperative approach to improve the security of both primary and secondary systems in cognitive radio multicast communications. During their access to the frequency spectrum licensed to the primary users, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong , Oh-Soon Shin , Arumugam Nallanathan , George K. Karagiannidis

This letter considers a network comprising a transmitter, which employs random linear network coding to encode a message, a legitimate receiver, which can recover the message if it gathers a sufficient number of linearly independent coded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Amjad Saeed Khan , Andrea Tassi , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

Secure communication over a memoryless wiretap channel in the presence of a passive eavesdropper is considered. Traditional information-theoretic security methods require an advantage for the main channel over the eavesdropper channel to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Dennis Goeckel , Hossein Pishro-Nik

This work studies near-field secure communications through transmit beamfocusing. We examine the benefit of having a protected eavesdropper-free zone around the legitimate receiver, and we determine the worst-case secrecy performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Cen Liu , Xiangyun Zhou , Nan Yang , Salman Durrani , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Prior studies on covert communication with noise uncertainty adopted a worst-case approach from the warden's perspective. That is, the worst-case detection performance of the warden is used to assess covertness, which is overly optimistic.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Biao He , Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Vincent K. N. Lau

This paper studies physical-layer secure transmissions from a transmitter to a legitimate receiver against an eavesdropper over slow fading channels, taking into account the impact of finite blocklength secrecy coding. A comprehensive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Wireless systems are of paramount importance for providing ubiquitous data transmission for smart cities. However, due to the broadcasting and openness of wireless channels, such systems face potential security challenges. UAV-assisted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Chan Gao , Linying Tian , Dong Zheng

In this paper, we consider a scenario where a source node wishes to broadcast two confidential messages to two receivers, while a wire-tapper also receives the transmitted signal. This model is motivated by wireless communications, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-20 Ghadamali Bagherikaram , Abolfazl S. Motahari , Amir K. Khandani

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has recently been considered as a promising approach to save spectrum resources and reduce hardware cost. Meanwhile, as information security becomes increasingly more critical issue, government…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-15 Mianyi Zhang , Yinghui He , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Secure data compression in the presence of side information at both a legitimate receiver and an eavesdropper is explored. A noise-free, limited rate link between the source and the receiver, whose output can be perfectly observed by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deniz Gunduz , Elza Erkip , H. Vincent Poor

A novel private communication framework is proposed where privacy is induced by transmitting over a channel instances of linear inverse problems that are identifiable to the legitimate receiver but unidentifiable to an eavesdropper. The gap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Jianxiu Li , Urbashi Mitra

Owing to the vulnerability of relay-assisted and device-to-device (D2D) communications, improving wireless security from a physical layer signal processing perspective is attracting increasing interest. Hence we address the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Jiaxin Yang , Qiang Li , Benoit Champagne , Yulong Zou , Lajos Hanzo

We study the security of communication between a single transmitter and multiple receivers in a broadcast channel in the presence of an eavesdropper. We consider several special classes of channels. As the first model, we consider the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-02 Ersen Ekrem , Sennur Ulukus

Artificial noise (AN) is a key physical-layer security scheme for wireless communications over multiple-input multiple-output wiretap channels. Recently, artificial noise elimination (ANE) has emerged as a strategy to mitigate the impact of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hong Niu , Tuo Wu , Xia Lei , Wanbin Tang , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Chau Yuen

We present an optimized secure multi-antenna transmission approach based on artificial-noise-aided beamforming, with limited feedback from a desired single-antenna receiver. To deal with beamformer quantization errors as well as unknown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Xi Zhang , Matthew R. McKay , Xiangyun Zhou , Robert W. Heath

We consider a source-destination pair that can only communicate through an untrusted intermediate relay node. The intermediate node is willing to employ a designated relaying scheme to facilitate reliable communication between the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-16 Xiang He , Aylin Yener

The secrecy rate region of wiretap interference channels with a multi-antenna passive eavesdropper is studied under receiver energy harvesting constraints. To stay operational in the network, the legitimate receivers demand energy alongside…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ali Kariminezhad , Zohaib Hassan Awan , Hendrik Vogt , Aydin Sezgin

The problem of security against timing based traffic analysis in wireless networks is considered in this work. An analytical measure of anonymity in eavesdropped networks is proposed using the information theoretic concept of equivocation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-26 Parvathinathan Venkitasubramaniam , Ting He , Lang Tong

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely employed to enhance the end-to-end performance of wireless communications since the links between UAVs and terrestrial nodes are line-of-sight (LoS) with high probability. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Hongjiang Lei , Haosi Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Imran Shafique Ansari , Jing Jiang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini