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In this paper, a learning-aided content-based wireless image transmission scheme is proposed, where a multi-antenna-aided source wishes to securely deliver an image to a legitimate destination in the presence of randomly distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mehdi Letafati , Hamid Behroozi , Babak Hossein Khalaj , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Programmable metasurfaces and adjustable antennas are promising technologies. The security of a rotatable array system is investigated in this paper. A dual-base-station (BS) architecture is adopted, in which the BSs collaboratively perform…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Maolin Li , Feng Shu , Minghao Chen , Cunhua Pan , Fuhui Zhou , Yongpeng Wu , Liang Yang

In this paper, we enhance physical layer security for downlink heterogeneous networks (HetNets) by using friendly jammers and full-duplex users. The jammers are selected to transmit jamming signal if their interfering power on the scheduled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Weijun Tang , Suili Feng , Yuehua Ding , Yuan Liu

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

In this work, we investigate a blockage-aware pinching antenna (PA) system designed for secure and robust wireless communication. The considered system comprises a base station equipped with multiple waveguides, each hosting multiple PAs,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ruotong Zhao , Shaokang Hu , Deepak Mishra , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

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

A robust full-space physical layer security (PLS) transmission scheme is proposed in this paper considering the full-space wiretapping challenge of wireless networks supported by simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Ang Li , Wenjie Wang , Kun Yang

As the capacity demand of mobile applications keeps increasing, the backhaul network is becoming a bottleneck to support high quality of experience (QoE) in next-generation wireless networks. Content caching at base stations (BSs) is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Xi Peng , Juei-Chin Shen , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper studies secure video streaming in cache-enabled small cell networks, where some of the cache-enabled small cell base stations (BSs) helping in video delivery are untrusted. Unfavorably, caching improves the eavesdropping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Lin Xiang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Vincent W. S. Wong

To improve signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) and make better use of file diversity provided by random caching, we consider two types of linear receivers, i.e., maximal ratio combining (MRC) receiver and partial zero forcing (PZF) receiver,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Dongdong Jiang , Ying Cui

This paper adopts the antenna selection technique to enhance the covert rate in a wireless communication network comprised of a source, a destination , an external jammer and an eavesdropper. In the covert communication, the level of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-27 Morteza Sarkheil , Paeiz Azmi , Moslem Forouzesh , Ali Kuhestani

This paper considers secure communication in buffer-aided cooperative wireless networks in the presence of one eavesdropper, which can intercept the data transmission from both the source and relay nodes. A new max-ratio relaying protocol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Jiayu Zhou , Deli Qiao , Haifeng Qian

We assume that a buffer-aided transmitter communicates with a receiving node in the presence of an attacker. We investigate the impact of a radio-frequency energy-harvesting attacker that probabilistically operates as a jammer or an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Ahmed El Shafie , Kamel Tourki , Zhiguo Ding , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this work, we investigate the physical layer security (PLS) of ambient backscatter communication non-orthogonal multiple access (AmBC-NOMA) networks where non-colluding eavesdroppers (Eves) are randomly distributed. In the proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Xinyue Pei , Xingwei Wang , Min Huang , Yingyang Chen , Xiaofan Li , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

We design a new secure transmission scheme in the relay wiretap channel where a source communicates with a destination through a decode-and-forward relay in the presence of spatially random-distributed eavesdroppers. For the sake of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Chenxi Liu , Nan Yang , Robert Malaney , Jinhong Yuan

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 this paper, we investigate for the first time the benefits of wireless caching for the physical layer security (PLS) of wireless networks. In particular, a caching scheme enabling power-efficient PLS is proposed for cellular video…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Lin Xiang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Vincent W. S. Wong

Secure communication over a wiretap channel is considered in the disadvantaged wireless environment, where the eavesdropper channel is (possibly much) better than the main channel. We present a method to exploit inherent vulnerabilities of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Dennis Goeckel , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Cooperative relaying is utilized as an efficient method for data communication in wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things (IoT). However, sometimes due to the necessity of multi-hop relaying in such communication networks, it is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Ali Kuhestani , Hamid Behroozi

In this paper, we investigate the performance of physical-layer security of a pinching-antenna system on a lossless dielectric waveguide. In particular, the system uses a single pinching-antenna to convey confidential information from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Osamah S. Badarneh , Hugerles S. Silva , Yazan H. Al Badarneh