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The problem of resource allocation in multiple-antenna wiretap channels is investigated, wherein a malicious user tries to eavesdrop the communication between two legitimate users. Both multiple input single output single-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Alessio Zappone , Pin-Hsun Lin , Eduard A. Jorswieck

In this paper, sensing-assisted secure communication in a multi-user multi-eavesdropper integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system is investigated. Confidential communication signals and dedicated sensing signals are jointly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Fanghao Xia , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Nanchi Su , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Jie Xu

We propose covert beamforming design frameworks for integrated radar sensing and communication (IRSC) systems, where the radar can covertly communicate with legitimate users under the cover of the probing waveforms without being detected by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Shuai Ma , Haihong Sheng , Ruixin Yang , Hang Li , Youlong Wu , Chao Shen , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Shiyin Li

Pilot contamination remains a major bottleneck in realizing the full potential of distributed massive MIMO systems. We propose two dynamic and scalable pilot assignment schemes designed for practical deployment in such networks. First, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mohd Saif Ali Khan , Karthik RM , Samar Agnihotri

Accurate channel state information (CSI) acquisition is essential for modern wireless systems, which becomes increasingly difficult under large antenna arrays, strict pilot overhead constraints, and diverse deployment environments. Existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingyu Zhou , Le Liang , Hao Ye , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

This paper is concerned with the channel estimation problem in Millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless systems with large antenna arrays. By exploiting the inherent sparse nature of the mmWave channel, we first propose a fast channel estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Matthew Kokshoorn , He Chen , Peng Wang , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

While the impact of finite-rate feedback on the capacity of fading channels has been extensively studied in the literature, not much attention has been paid to this problem under secrecy constraint. In this work, we study the ergodic secret…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Shuiyin Liu , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

This note studies state estimation in wireless networked control systems with secrecy against eavesdropping. Specifically, a sensor transmits a system state information to the estimator over a legitimate user link, and an eavesdropper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Anastasia Impicciatore , Anastasios Tsiamis , Yuriy Zacchia Lun , Alessandro D'Innocenzo , George J. Pappas

For autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) secure communications, traditional designs based on fixed position antenna (FPA) lack sufficient spatial degrees of freedom (DoF), which leaves the line-of-sight-dominated AAV links vulnerable to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Yingjie Wu , Junshan Luo , Weiyu Chen , Shilian Wang , Fanggang Wang , Haiyang Ding

For multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) channels, the optimal channel estimation (CE) based on linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) requires three-dimensional (3D) filtering. However, the complexity is often prohibitive due to large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xiangzhao Qin , Sha Hu

Random access is necessary in crowded scenarios due to the limitation of pilot sequences and the intermittent pattern of device activity. Nowadays, most of the related works are based on independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Fan Wei

Massive MIMO communication systems, by virtue of utilizing very large number of antennas, have a potential to yield higher spectral and energy efficiency in comparison with the conventional MIMO systems. In this paper, we consider uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Alam Zaib , Mudassir Masood , Anum Ali , Weiyu Xu , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Channel charting (CC) has been proposed recently to enable logical positioning of user equipments (UEs) in the neighborhood of a multi-antenna base-station solely from channel-state information (CSI). CC relies on dimensionality reduction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-09 Pengzhi Huang , Oscar Castañeda , Emre Gönültaş , Saïd Medjkouh , Olav Tirkkonen , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

This paper studies a secrecy integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) aims to send confidential messages to a single-antenna communication user (CU), and at the same time sense several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zixiang Ren , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu

This paper considers uplink massive MIMO systems with 1-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and develops a deep-learning based channel estimation framework. In this framework, the prior channel estimation observations and deep neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Yu Zhang , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Ahmed Alkhateeb

A core challenge in physical-layer security is the difficulty of obtaining the channel state information (CSI) of potential eavesdroppers. The inherent sensing functionality of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems offers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yaxuan Chen , Guangchi Zhang , Miao Cui , Hao Fu , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

To improve national security, government agencies have long been committed to enforcing powerful surveillance measures on suspicious individuals or communications. In this paper, we consider a wireless legitimate surveillance system, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Caijun Zhong , Xin Jiang , Fengzhong Qu , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper advances the proactive eavesdropping research by considering a practical half-duplex mode for the legitimate monitor and dealing with the challenging case that the suspicious link opportunistically communicates over parallel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Yitao Han , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

This letter proposes a Bayesian channel estimation method that leverages on the a priori information provided by the Electromagnetic Digital Twin's (EM-DT) representation of the environment. The proposed approach is compared with several…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Lorenzo Del Moro , Francesco Linsalata , Marouan Mizmizi , Maurizio Magarini , Damiano Badini , Umberto Spagnolini

Physical layer security has recently been regarded as an emerging technique to complement and improve the communication security in future wireless networks. The current research and development in physical layer security is often based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou