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This paper presents a quantified assessment of the physical layer security capabilities of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless systems under eavesdropping. Specifically, we derive a closed-form expression for the ergodic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Angeliki Alexiou

Pinching antenna (PA) systems have recently gained significant attention. While their physical-layer security (PLS) is being explored, most studies rely on idealized lossless models, ignoring practical waveguide attenuation. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Xiaochen Zhang , Haitao Du , Yanyu Cheng , Yushen Lin , Kah Chan Teh

Sixth-Generation (6G) wireless networks aim to support innovative Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications that demand faster and more secure data transmission. While higher Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) layers employ measures like…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Dimitris Kompostiotis , Dimitris Vordonis , Vassilis Paliouras , George C. Alexandropoulos

This letter investigates the physical layer security in a wireless cooperative network where communication is assisted by a full-duplex (FD) untrusted relay in the presence of multiple external eavesdroppers. A cluster-based colluding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Ahmed El Shafie , Asma Mabrouk , Kamel Tourki , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Mazen O. Hasna

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) hold significant promise for enhancing physical layer security (PLS). However, conventional RISs are typically modeled using diagonal scattering matrices, capturing only independent reflections…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Weijie Xiong , Jingran Lin , Cunhua Pan , Yilong Zeng , Qiang Li

This work investigates the impact of the ever-present electromagnetic interference (EMI) on the achievable secrecy performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication systems. We characterize the end-to-end RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-17 José David Vega Sánchez , Georges Kaddoum , F. Javier López-Martínez

In this paper, we investigate a large intelligent surface-enhanced (LIS-enhanced) system, where a LIS is deployed to assist secure transmission. Our design aims to maximize the achievable secrecy rates in different channel models, i.e.,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Mengfan Zheng , Xiang-Gen Xia , Yongjian Wang , Chengshan Xiao

In this paper, we introduce an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to provide a programmable wireless environment for physical layer security. By adjusting the reflecting coefficients, the IRS can change the attenuation and scattering of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Jie Chen , Ying-Chang Liang , Yiyang Pei , Huayan Guo

This article investigates physical layer security (PLS) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output multiple-antenna-eavesdropper (MIMOME) channels. Existing researches ignore the problem that secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yiliang Liu , Zhou Su , Chi Zhang , Hsiao-Hwa Chen

In this paper, we consider the physical layer security of an RIS-assisted multiple-antenna communication system with randomly located eavesdroppers. The exact distributions of the received signal-to-noise-ratios (SNRs) at the legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Wei Shi , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Xiaohu You , Chunming Zhao

This paper studies the physical layer security (PLS) of a vehicular network employing a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). RIS technologies are emerging as an important paradigm for the realisation of smart radio environments, where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Abubakar U. Makarfi , Khaled M. Rabie , Omprakash Kaiwartya , Xingwang Li , Rupak Kharel

Security has emerged as one of the critical requirements in future wireless networks. Unlike traditional cryptography-based security, physical layer security (PLS) exploits various features of the random wireless channel to secure not only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Abuu. B. Kihero , Haji. M. Furqan , M. M. Sahin , Huseyin Arslan

Most intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided indoor visible light communication (VLC) studies ignore the time delays introduced by reflected paths, even though these delays are inherent in practical wideband systems. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Rashid Iqbal , Ahmed Zoha , Salama Ikki , Muhammad Ali Imran , Hanaa Abumarshoud

The 6G wireless networks impose extremely high requirements on physical layer secure communication. However, the existing solutions usually can only achieve one-dimensional physical layer security (PLS) in the angle dimension, and cannot…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Zhendong Wang , Chenyang Meng , Jun Yang , Jiayuan Wang , Yin Li , Linshan Jiang , Jin Zhang

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications are highly promising to improve the capacity of modern wireless networks, while the physical layer security (PLS) techniques hold great potential to enhance the critical secrecy performance therein.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Yuanyu Zhang , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang , Shoji Kasahara

In this paper, the secure performance of multiuser multiple-input single-output wireless communications systems assisted by a multifunctional active intelligent reflection surface (IRS) is investigated. The active IRS can simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Shaokang Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays) have emerged as a promising technology to improve the spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution of future wireless systems. Different from existing works that mostly considered physical layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Tianyu Liu , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Yunpu Zhang , Shiqi Gong , Heng Liu , Guangchi Zhang

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is leveraged to enhance the physical layer security of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system in which the IRS is deployed to not only assist the downlink communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Octavia A. Dobre , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Securing wireless communication, being inherently vulnerable to eavesdropping and jamming attacks, becomes more challenging in resource-constrained networks like Internet-of-Things. Towards this, physical layer security (PLS) has gained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Bhawna Ahuja , Deepak Mishra , Ranjan Bose
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