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As investigations on physical layer security evolve from point-to-point systems to multi-user scenarios, multi-user interference (MUI) is introduced and becomes an unavoidable issue. Different from treating MUI totally as noise in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Huiyun Xia , Yijie Mao , Bruno Clerckx , Xiaokang Zhou , Shuai Han , Cheng Li

The hierarchical caching system where a server connects with multiple mirror sites, each connecting with a distinct set of users, and both the mirror sites and users are equipped with caching memories has been widely studied. However all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yun Kong , Youlong Wu , Minquan Cheng

We study the problem of weakly private information retrieval (PIR) when there is heterogeneity in servers' trustworthiness under the maximal leakage (Max-L) metric and mutual information (MI) metric. A user wishes to retrieve a desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Wenyuan Zhao , Yu-Shin Huang , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian

In this paper, secure wireless information and power transfer with intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is proposed for a multiple-input single-output (MISO) system. Under the secrecy rate (SR) and the reflecting phase shifts of IRS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Weiping Shi , Xiaobo Zhou , Linqiong Jia , Yongpeng Wu , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, we introduce the Fully Homomorphic Integrity Model (HIM), a novel approach designed to enhance security, efficiency, and reliability in encrypted data processing, primarily within the health care industry. HIM addresses the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 B. Shuriya , S. Vimal Kumar , K. Bagyalakshmi

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising technique for enhancing computation capabilities for wireless networks. In this paper, we study physical layer security in an MEC system where multiple users offload partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Yating Wen , Tong-Xing Zheng , Yongxia Tong , Hao-Wen Liu , Xin Chen , Pengcheng Mu , Hui-Ming Wang

The heterogeneous cellular network (HCN) is a promising approach to the deployment of 5G cellular networks. This paper comprehensively studies physical layer security in a multi-tier HCN where base stations (BSs), authorized users and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Hui-Ming Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng , Jinhong Yuan , Don Towsley , Moon Ho Lee

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

Physical layer security offers an efficient means to decrease the risk of confidential information leakage through wiretap links. In this paper, we address the physical-layer security in a cooperative wireless subnetwork that includes a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Saeed Vahidian , Sajad Hatamnia , Benoit Champagne

With growing popularity of mobile Internet, providing secure wireless services has become a critical issue. Physical layer security (PHY-security) has been recognized as an effective means to enhance wireless security by exploiting wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaoming Chen , Caijun Zhong , Chau Yuen , Hsiao-Hwa Chen

In this letter, the use of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the physical layer security of downlink wireless communication is investigated. Assuming a single-antenna legitimate user and a multi-antenna eavesdropper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-07 Keming Feng , Xiao Li , Yu Han , Shi Jin , Yijian Chen

This paper investigates robust and secure multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink communications assisted by a self-sustainable intelligent reflection surface (IRS), which can simultaneously reflect and harvest energy from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Shaokang Hu , Zhiqiang Wei , Yuanxin Cai , Chang Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communications have drawn significant attention recently. We study the physical layer security of the downlink RIS-aided transmission framework for randomly located users in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Qiang Sun , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The emerging concept of extremely-large holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO), beneficial from compactly and densely packed cost-efficient radiating meta-atoms, has been demonstrated for enhanced degrees of freedom even in pure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Arthur S. de Sena , Jiguang He , Ahmed Al Hammadi , Chongwen Huang , Faouzi Bader , Merouane Debbah , Mathias Fink

Physical layer security is a key issue in the full duplex (FD) communication systems due to the broadcast nature of wireless channels. In this paper, the joint design of information and artificial noise beamforming vectors is proposed for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Yanjie Dong , Ahmed El Shafie , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Julian Cheng , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Victor C. M. Leung

In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security of a full-duplex base station (BS) aided system in the worst case, where an uplink transmitter (UT) and a downlink receiver (DR) are both equipped with a single antenna, while a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Zhengmin Kong , Shaoshi Yang , Die Wang , Lajos Hanzo

Secure aggregation (SA) is fundamental to privacy preservation in federated learning (FL), enabling model aggregation while preventing disclosure of individual user updates. This paper addresses hierarchical secure aggregation (HSA) against…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Min Xu , Xuejiao Han , Kai Wan , Gennian Ge

This paper studies secrecy rate optimization in a wireless network with a single-antenna source, a multi-antenna destination and a multi-antenna eavesdropper. This is an unfavorable scenario for secrecy performance as the system is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Gan Zheng , Ioannis Krikidis , Jiangyuan Li , Athina P. Petropulu , Bjorn Ottersten

Interference alignment (IA) is a widely recognized approach for mitigating inter-cell interference in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. Despite its effectiveness, practical deployment remains constrained by two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Samitha Gunarathne , Eslam Eldeeb , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Italo Atzeni

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