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Fluid antenna (FA) has become a highly promising technology and has recently been used to enhance the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. However, the scenario where sensing targets act as eavesdroppers in ISAC and how to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yunxiao Li , Qian Zhang , Xuejun Cheng , Zhiguo Wang , Xiaoyan Wang , Hongji Xu , Ju Liu

In this paper, we consider the broadcast channel with confidential messages and external eavesdroppers (BCCE), where a multi-antenna base station simultaneously communicates to multiple potentially malicious users, in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Giovanni Geraci , Sarabjot Singh , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Jinhong Yuan , Iain B. Collings

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 paper considers multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay communication in multi-cellular (interference) systems in which MIMO source-destination pairs communicate simultaneously. It is assumed that due to severe attenuation and/or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Muhammad R A Khandaker , Kai-Kit Wong

The reliability and transmission distance are generally limited for the wireless communications due to the severe channel fading. As an effective way to resist the channel fading, cooperative relaying is usually adopted in wireless networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Hao Niu , Yao Sun , Kaoru Sezaki

The use of multiple source nodes with wireless backhaul is considered for secrecy enhancement through source node selection in future wireless networks. The ergodic secrecy rate (ESR) of {optimal source node selection in the presence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Chinmoy Kundu , Mark F. Flanagan

One of the great potentials to improve the confidentiality in mmWave/THz at the physical layer of technical communication, measured by the secrecy rate, lies in the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). However, an important…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Chu Li , Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin

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

Recently, three useful secrecy metrics based on the partial secrecy regime were proposed to analyze secure transmissions on wireless systems over quasi-static fading channels, namely: generalized secrecy outage probability, average…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Diana P. M. Osorio , Hirley Alves , Edgar E. B. Olivo

In this paper, an energy harvesting scheme for a multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) secrecy channel with artificial noise (AN) transmission is investigated. Joint optimization of the transmit beamforming matrix, the AN…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Ning Wang , Sai Huang , Zhongyong Wang , Inkyu Lee

In this letter, we study relay-aided networks with presence of single eavesdropper. We provide joint beamforming design of the source and relay that can minimize the overall power consumption while satisfying our predefined…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-26 Meng Zhang , Jian Huang , Hui Yu , Hanwen Luo , Wen Chen

We study the problem of securely communicating a sequence of information bits with a client in the presence of multiple adversaries at unknown locations in the environment. We assume that the client and the adversaries are located in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Yagiz Savas , Abolfazl Hashemi , Abraham P. Vinod , Brian M. Sadler , Ufuk Topcu

This paper investigates a novel unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) secure communication system with the assistance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where an UAV and a ground user communicate with each other, while an eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Li Sixian , Duo Bin , Marco Di Renzo , Tao Meixia , Yuan Xiaojun

Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising paradigm for safeguarding 6G wireless networks by exploiting the inherent characteristics of wireless channels. However, the efficiency of conventional PLS is often limited by fixed orientation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ailing Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Xingxiang Peng , Qiaoyan Peng , Ziyuan Zheng , Yuxuan Chen , Wen Chen

This paper studies an untrusted relay channel, in which the destination sends artificial noise simultaneously with the source sending a message to the relay, in order to protect the source's confidential message. The traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-01 Shengli Zhang , Lisheng Fan , Mugen Peng , H. Vincent Poor

In this letter, we study the secure communication problem in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled networks aided by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) from the physical-layer security perspective. Specifically, the IRS is deployed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Wen Wang , Hui Tian , Wanli Ni , Meihui Hua

Near-field spherical wavefronts enable spotlight-like beam focusing to mitigate unintended energy leakage, creating new opportunities for physical-layer security (PLS). However, under hybrid analog-digital (HAD) antenna architectures,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiasi Zhou , Huiyun Xia , Chuan Wu , Chintha Tellambura

We consider a full-duplex (FD) multiuser system where an FD base station (BS) is designed to simultaneously serve both downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) users in the presence of half-duplex eavesdroppers (Eves). The problem is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Hieu V. Nguyen , Octavia A. Dobre , Oh-Soon Shin

This paper explores secure communication in an underwater energy-harvesting (EH) relay network that supports hybrid optical-acoustic transmission. The optical hop is modeled using a Gamma-Gamma turbulence channel with pointing errors and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Shalini Tripathi , Ankur Bansal , Chinmoy Kundu

This study investigates a robust reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system for secure wireless communication, in which a multi-antenna transmitter (Alice) sends confidential messages to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Rakesh Ranjan , Ahmad Sirojuddin , Manjesh K. Hanawal , Himanshu B. Mishra , Wan-Jen Huang ID