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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

This paper investigates the physical layer security design of an untrusted relaying network where the source node coexists with a multi-antenna eavesdropper (Eve). While the communication relies on untrustworthy relay nodes to increase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-11 Hamed Bastami , Majid Moradikia , Hamid Behroozi , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Zhigou Ding

The recent advancements in hardware miniaturization capabilities have boosted the diffusion of systems based on Energy Harvesting (EH) technologies, as a means to power embedded wireless devices in a sustainable and low-cost fashion.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Pietro Tedeschi , Savio Sciancalepore , Roberto Di Pietro

In hierarchical secure aggregation (HSA), a server communicates with clustered users through an intermediate layer of relays to compute the sum of users' inputs under two security requirements -- server security and relay security. Server…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhou Li , Xiang Zhang , Jiawen Lv , Jihao Fan , Haiqiang Chen , Giuseppe Caire

Machine learning models can inadvertently expose confidential properties of their training data, making them vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIA). While numerous evaluation methods exist, many require computationally expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Richard J. Preen , Jim Smith

In this paper, we study multibeam satellite secure communication through physical (PHY) layer security techniques, i.e., joint power control and beamforming. By first assuming that the Channel State Information (CSI) is available and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jiang Lei , Zhu Han , M. A. Vázquez-Castro , Are Hjørungnes

A novel movable-element (ME) enabled simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (ME-STARS)-aided secure communication system is investigated. Against the full-space eavesdropping, MEs are deployed at the STARS for enhancing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Jingjing Zhao , Qian Xu , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

High transmission rate and secure communication have been identified as the key targets that need to be effectively addressed by fifth generation (5G) wireless systems. In this context, the concept of physical-layer security becomes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang , Shaoqian Li

There is a rich recent literature on how to assist secure communication between a single transmitter and receiver at the physical layer of wireless networks through techniques such as cooperative jamming. In this paper, we consider how…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Majid Ghaderi , Dennis Goeckel , Ariel Orda , Mostafa Dehghan

In a directional modulation network, a general power iterative (GPI) based beamforming scheme is proposed to maximize the secrecy rate (SR), where there are two optimization variables required to be optimized. The first one is the useful…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Hai Yu , Simin Wan , Wenlong Cai , Ling Xu , Xiaobo Zhou , Jin Wang , Yongpeng Wu , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang , Jianxin Wang

This letter proposes a new physical layer authentication mechanism operating at the physical layer of a communication system where the receiver has partial control of the channel conditions (e.g., using an intelligent reflecting surface).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Laura Crosara , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Stefano Tomasin

With rapid development of computer techniques, the human computer interaction scenarios are becoming more and more frequent. The development history of the human-computer interaction is from a person to adapt to the computer to the computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Yang Yang , Zhiyan Li

In contrast to its wired counterpart, wireless communication is highly susceptible to eavesdropping due to the broadcast nature of the wireless propagation medium. Recent works have proposed the use of interference to reduce eavesdropping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Liangzhong Ruan , Vincent K. N. Lau , Moe Z. Win

In this paper, downlink secure transmission in simultaneous information and power transfer (SWIPT) system enabled with massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is studied. A base station (BS) with a large number of antennas transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Zahra Goli , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Hamed Farhadi , Tommy Svensson

Recently, the security of Internet of Things (IoT) has been an issue of great concern. Physical layer security methods can help IoT networks achieve information-theoretical secrecy. Nevertheless, utilizing physical security methods, such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Ran Zi , Jia Liu , Liang Gu , Xiaohu Ge

In the Internet-of-Things (IoT), massive sensitive and confidential information is transmitted wirelessly, making security a serious concern. This is particularly true when technologies, such as non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Chaoying Yuan , Wei Ni , Kezhong Zhang , Jingpeng Bai , Jun Shen , AbbasJamalipour

This paper studies the performance of physical layer security (PLS) in a multi-user hybrid heterogeneous visible light communication (VLC) and radio frequency (RF) wireless communication system with simultaneous lightwave information and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Tuan A. Hoang , Thanh V. Pham , Chuyen T. Nguyen

In this paper, we propose successive optimization non-linear precoding strategies for physical-layer security in wireless networks. We also investigate different precoding techniques for multi-user MIMO systems under various conditions of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-17 X. Luo , R. C. de Lamare , K. Zu

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the domain of physical layer security in multiuser wireless networks. The essential premise of physical-layer security is to enable the exchange of confidential messages over a wireless medium…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Amitav Mukherjee , S. A. A. Fakoorian , Jing Huang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, we consider the (global and sum) energy efficiency optimization problem in downlink multi-input multi-output multi-cell systems, where all users suffer from multi-user interference. This is a challenging problem due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Yang Yang , Marius Pesavento , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten