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Physical layer security (PLS) technologies are expected to play an important role in the next-generation wireless networks, by providing secure communication to protect critical and sensitive information from illegitimate devices. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yun Wen , Gaojie Chen , Sisai Fang , Zheng Chu , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli

This paper investigates a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) secure communication system with integrated sensing and communications. We consider wireless security enhancement for a multiple-antenna UAV transmitting ISAC waveforms to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Yue Xiu , Wanting Lyu , Phee Lep Yeoh , Yi Ai , Yonghui Li , Ning Wei

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

A secure downlink transmission system which is exposed to multiple eavesdroppers and is appropriate for Internet of Things (IoT) applications is considered. A worst case scenario is assumed, in the sense that, in order to enhance their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-17 Pingmu Huang , Yunqin Hao , Tiejun Lv , Jintao Xing , Jie Yang , P. Takis Mathiopoulos

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks are integral to next-generation communication systems, providing global coverage, low latency, and minimal signal loss. However, their unique characteristics, such as constrained onboard resources,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Zhisheng Yin , Yonghong Liu , Dongbo Li , Nan Cheng , Linlin Liang , Changle Li , Jie Liu

This study employs a uniform rectangular array (URA) sub-connected hybrid beamforming (SC-HBF) architecture to provide a novel self-interference (SI) suppression scheme in a full-duplex (FD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Mobeen Mahmood , Yuanxing Zhang , Robert Morawski , Tho Le-Ngoc

This paper introduces a joint optimization framework for user-centric beam selection and linear precoding (LP) design in a coordinated multiple-satellite (CoMSat) system, employing a Digital-Fourier-Transform-based (DFT) beamforming (BF)…

Utilization of inter-base station cooperation for information processing has shown great potential in enhancing the overall quality of communication services (QoS) in wireless communication networks. Nevertheless, such cooperations require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xingdi Chen , Yu Xiong , Kai Yang

This paper presents a comprehensive physical layer security (PLS) framework for fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided short-packet communications under the variable block-correlation model (VBCM). We consider a downlink wiretap scenario in which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jianchao Zheng , Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Baiyang Liu , Runyu Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Kin-Fai Tong , Sumei Sun

In this paper, we study a secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where one multi-antenna base station (BS) simultaneously communicates with one single-antenna user and senses the location parameter of a target which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Kaiyue Hou , Shuowen Zhang

This paper studies a downlink secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) transmits confidential messages to a single-antenna communication user (CU) while performing sensing on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Zixiang Ren , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In this paper, we consider the physical layer (PHY) security problem for hybrid wiretapping wireless systems in millimeter wave transmission, where active eavesdroppers (AEs) and passive eavesdroppers (PEs) coexist to intercept the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Bin Qiu , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) has been widely studied for capacity enhancement, but its potential for physical layer security (PLS) remains largely unexplored. By adjusting both three-dimensional (3D) positions and 3D rotations of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Yanzhi Qian , Jing Jiang , Jingze Ding , Xiaoshao Dan , Hongyun Chu

In this letter, secure beamforming in a multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) system is investigated. In this system, the secrecy rate is maximized by controlling the on-off status of each IRS as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Yue Xiu , Jun Zhao , Chau Yuen , Zhongpei Zhang , Guan Gui

Multi-cell coordinated beamforming (MCBF), where multiple base stations (BSs) collaborate with each other in the beamforming design for mitigating the inter-cell interference, has been a subject drawing great attention recently. Most MCBF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Chao Shen , Tsung-Hui Chang , Kun-Yu Wang , Zhengding Qiu , Chong-Yung Chi

We propose a new optimal Location-Based Beamforming (LBB) scheme for the wiretap channel, where both the main channel and the eavesdropper's channel are subject to Rician fading. In our LBB scheme the two key inputs are the location of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Shihao Yan , Robert Malaney

Simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RIS) offer a transformative approach for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, particularly for enhancing physical layer security (PLS). This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Rakesh Ranjan , Anshu Mukherjee , Manjesh K. Hanawal , Keshav Singh , Ioannis Krikidis

This paper considers secrecy enhancement mechanisms in visible light communication (VLC) systems with spatially distributed passive eavesdroppers (EDs) under the assumption that there are multiple LED transmitters and one legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Sunghwan Cho , Gaojie Chen , Justin P. Coon

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

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