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This paper investigates the fundamental performance limits of the two-user interference channel in the presence of an external eavesdropper. In this setting, we construct an inner bound, to the secrecy capacity region, based on the idea of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Hesham El Gamal

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can adaptively adjust the phase shifts of its reflecting units to strengthen the desired signal and/or suppress the undesired signal. In this letter, we investigate an IRS-aided secure wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Rui Zhang

To keep the hardware costs of future communications systems manageable, the use of low-cost hardware components is desirable. This is particularly true for the emerging massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems which equip base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Jun Zhu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Ning Wang , Robert Schober , Vijay K. Bhargava

Movable-antenna (MA) arrays are envisioned as a promising technique for enhancing secrecy performance in wireless communications by leveraging additional spatial degrees of freedom. However, when the eavesdropper is located in the same…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Chu Li , Marjan Boloori , Eduard Jorswieck , Aydin Sezgin

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has recently drawn significant interests for its dual use of radio signals to provide wireless data and energy access at the same time. However, a challenging secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Hong Xing , Liang Liu , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates an average secrecy rate (ASR) maximization problem for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled wireless communication system, wherein a UAV is employed to deliver confidential information to a ground destination in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

In this paper, we investigate secure communication over sparse millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels by exploiting the spatial sparsity of legitimate user's channel. We propose a secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This paper investigates the physical layer security design of an untrusted relaying network where the source node coexists with a multi-antenna eavesdropper (Eve). While the communication relies on untrustworthy relay nodes to increase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-11 Hamed Bastami , Majid Moradikia , Hamid Behroozi , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Zhigou Ding

In this paper, we consider secure downlink transmission in a multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where the numbers of base station (BS) antennas, mobile terminals, and eavesdropper antennas are asymptotically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jun Zhu , Robert Schober , Vijay K. Bhargava

We consider joint optimization of artificial noise (AN) and information signals in a MIMO wiretap interference network, wherein the transmission of each link may be overheard by several MIMO-capable eavesdroppers. Each information signal is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Peyman Siyari , Marwan Krunz , Diep N. Nguyen

This work, for the first time, considers confidential data collection in the context of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless networks, where the scheduled ground sensor node (SN) intends to transmit confidential information to the UAV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-06 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Min Li , Jun Li , Feng Shu

We evaluate the secrecy performance of a multiple access cooperative network where the destination node is wiretapped by a malicious and passive eavesdropper. We propose the application of the network coding technique as an alternative to…

Covert communications enable a transmitter to send information reliably in the presence of an adversary, who looks to detect whether the transmission took place or not. We consider covert communications over quasi-static block fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou

A downlink single-input single-output non-orthogonal multiple access setting is considered, in which a base station (BS) is communicating with two legitimate users in two possible scenarios of unsecure environments: existence of an external…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Ahmed Arafa , Wonjae Shin , Mojtaba Vaezi , H. Vincent Poor

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have several prominent advantages, including improving the level of wireless communications security and privacy. In this work, we focus on this aspect and envision a strategy to counteract the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Francesco Malandrino , Alessandro Nordio , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

In this paper, we develop a novel low-complexity artificial noise (AN) aided beam focusing scheme in a near-field terahertz wiretap communication system. In this system, the base station (BS) equipped with a large-scale array transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zhifeng Tang , Nan Yang , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Markku Juntti , Josep Miquel Jornet

Secrecy encoding for remote state estimation in the presence of adversarial eavesdroppers is a well studied problem. Typical existing secrecy encoding schemes rely on the transmitter's knowledge of the remote estimator's current…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Justin M. Kennedy , Jason J. Ford , Daniel E. Quevedo , Falko Dressler

A continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based secure communication system is investigated, where a base station equipped with a CAPA transmits signals to a legitimate user under the existence of an eavesdropper. For improving the secrecy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Jingjing Zhao , Haowen Song , Xidong Mu , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu , Yuanwei Liu

A simple four node network in which cooperation improves the information-theoretic secrecy is studied. The channel consists of two senders, a receiver, and an eavesdropper. One or both senders transmit confidential messages to the receiver,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-18 Ninoslav Marina , Hideki Yagi , H. Vincent Poor

Secure communication is considered with unreliable entanglement assistance, where the adversary may intercept the legitimate receiver's entanglement resource before communication takes place. The communication setting of unreliable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Meir Lederman , Uzi Pereg