English
Related papers

Related papers: Physical Layer Anonymous Precoding: The Path to Pr…

200 papers

The ever-increasing demand for high-speed wireless communication has generated significant interest in utilizing frequency bands that are adjacent to those occupied by legacy wireless systems. Since the legacy wireless systems were designed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Sameer Mathad , Taejoon Kim , David J. Love

The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread sharing of individual portrait images, which pose serious privacy risks due to the capabilities of automatic face recognition (AFR) systems for mass surveillance. Hence, protecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Yingli Tian , Guoying Zhao

The popularity of cyber-physical systems is fueling the rapid growth of location-based services. This poses the risk of location privacy disclosure. Effective privacy preservation is foremost for various mobile applications. Recently,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Shun Zhang , Pengfei Lan , Benfei Duan , Zhili Chen , Hong Zhong , Neal N. Xiong

Secure communication is essential in covert and safety-critical settings where verbal interactions may expose user intent or operational context. Wearable gesture-based communication enables low-effort, nonverbal interaction, but existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tasnia Ashrafi Heya , Sayed Erfan Arefin

This letter investigates the secrecy performance of wireless communication systems assisted by a fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS). Unlike conventional reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) with fixed geometries, FRISs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Francisco Hernando-Gallego , Diego Martín , Kai-Kit Wong , Riku Jäntti

Millimeter wave (mmWave) vehicular communication systems will provide an abundance of bandwidth for the exchange of raw sensor data and support driver-assisted and safety-related functionalities. Lack of secure communication links, however,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Mohammed E. Eltayeb , Junil Choi , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Robert W. Heath

The popularity of mobile devices and location-based services (LBS) has created great concern regarding the location privacy of their users. Anonymization is a common technique that is often used to protect the location privacy of LBS users.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Zarrin Montazeri , Amir Houmansadr , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Responsible use of AI demands that we protect sensitive information without undermining the usefulness of data, an imperative that has become acute in the age of large language models. We address this challenge with an on-premise,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Federico Albanese , Pablo Ronco , Nicolás D'Ippolito

User profiling is a critical component of adaptive risk-based authentication, yet it raises significant privacy concerns, particularly when handling sensitive data. Profiling involves collecting and aggregating various user features,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yaser Baseri , Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid , Dimitrios Makrakis

Massive developments in mobile wireless telecommunication networks have been made during the last few decades. At present, mobile users are getting familiar with the latest 5G networks, and the discussion for the next generation of Beyond…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Chamara Sandeepa , Bartlomiej Siniarski , Nicolas Kourtellis , Shen Wang , Madhusanka Liyanage

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

The design of a statistical signal processing privacy problem is studied where the private data is assumed to be observable. In this work, an agent observes useful data $Y$, which is correlated with private data $X$, and wants to disclose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Security monitoring via ubiquitous cameras and their more extended in intelligent buildings stand to gain from advances in signal processing and machine learning. While these innovative and ground-breaking applications can be considered as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Mehmet Yamac , Mete Ahishali , Nikolaos Passalis , Jenni Raitoharju , Bulent Sankur , Moncef Gabbouj

With the emergence of the internet of things (IoT) technology, wireless connectivity should be more ubiquitous than ever. In fact, the availability of wireless connection everywhere comes with security threats that, unfortunately, cannot be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Abdullateef Almohamad , Anas M. Tahir , Ayman Al-Kababji , Haji M. Furqan , Tamer Khattab , Mazen O. Hasna , Huseyin Arslan

Wireless sensing technologies can now detect heartbeats using radio frequency and acoustic signals, raising significant privacy concerns. Existing privacy solutions either protect from all sensing systems indiscriminately preventing any…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yixuan Gao , Tanvir Ahmed , Zekun Chang , Thijs Roumen , Rajalakshmi Nandakumar

A private compression design problem is studied, where an encoder observes useful data $Y$, wishes to compress it using variable length code and communicates it through an unsecured channel. Since $Y$ is correlated with private attribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Deniz Gündüz , Mikael Skoglund

In conventional federated learning (FL), differential privacy (DP) guarantees can be obtained by injecting additional noise to local model updates before transmitting to the parameter server (PS). In the wireless FL scenario, we show that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Burak Hasircioglu , Deniz Gunduz

This paper explores a new secure wireless communication paradigm where the physical layer security technology is applied to counteract both the detection and eavesdropping attacks, such that the critical covertness and secrecy properties of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Huihui Wu , Yuanyu Zhang , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang

Sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks will have to cope with diverse threats on a space-air-ground integrated network environment, novel technologies, and an accessible user information explosion. However, for now, security and privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Van-Linh Nguyen , Po-Ching Lin , Bo-Chao Cheng , Ren-Hung Hwang , Ying-Dar Lin

Secure communication is one of the key applications of quantum networks. In recent years, following the demands for identity protection in classical communication protocols, the need for anonymity has also emerged for quantum networks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Christopher Thalacker , Frederik Hahn , Jarn de Jong , Anna Pappa , Stefanie Barz