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HTTPS enhances end-user privacy and is often preferred or enforced by over-the-top content providers, but renders inoperable all intermediate network functions operating above the transport layer, including caching, content/protocol…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Nikos Fotiou , Vasilios A Siris , George C. Polyzos , Mario Marchese , Franco Davoli , Luca Boero

Conventionally, unconditional information security has been studied by quantum cryptography although the assumption of an omnipotent eavesdropper is too strict for some realistic implementations. In this paper, we study the realistic secret…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-30 Ziwen Pan , Ivan B. Djordjevic

Secrecy issues of free-space optical links realizing information theoretically secure communications as well as high transmission rates are discussed. We numerically study secrecy communication rates of optical wiretap channel based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Hiroyuki Endo , Te Sun Han , Takao Aoki , Masahide Sasaki

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been undergoing fast development for providing broader signal coverage and more extensive surveillance capabilities in military and civilian applications. Due to the broadcast nature of the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Jinchuan Tang , Gaojie Chen , Justin P. Coon

This paper studies the secrecy rate maximization problem of a secure wireless communication system, in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. The security of the communication link is enhanced through cooperative jamming, with the help of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Kanapathippillai Cumanan , George C. Alexandropoulos , Zhgiuo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

This letter considers a fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided secure and covert communication system, where the transmitter adjusts multiple fluid antennas' positions to achieve secure and covert transmission under the threat of an eavesdropper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Junteng Yao , Liangxiao Xin , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Kai-Kit Wong , Chau Yuen , Hyundong Shin

This work investigates the security and reliability analysis for a novel satellite-terrestrial (SatTer) network. Specifically, a satellite attempts to transmit confidential information to a ground user (GU) via the support of multiple relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Tan N. Nguyen , Dinh-Hieu Tran , Trinh Van Chien , Van-Duc Phan , Miroslav Voznak , Symeon Chatzinotas

Physical layer security (PLS) has been shown to hold promise as a new paradigm for securing wireless links. In contrast with the conventional cryptographic techniques, PLS methods exploit the random fading in wireless channels to provide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Furqan Jameel , Shurjeel Wyne , Syed Junaid Nawaz , Junaid Ahmed , Kanapathippillai Cumanan

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising architecture in the realm of intelligent communication paradigms. SemCom involves extracting and compressing the core information at the transmitter while enabling the receiver to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-23 Yiru Wang , Wanting Yang , Pengxin Guan , Yuping Zhao , Zehui Xiong

Wireless systems are of paramount importance for providing ubiquitous data transmission for smart cities. However, due to the broadcasting and openness of wireless channels, such systems face potential security challenges. UAV-assisted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Chan Gao , Linying Tian , Dong Zheng

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications has drawn significant interest recently due to many advantages such as low cost, high mobility, and on-demand deployment. This paper addresses the issue of physical-layer security in a UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Guangchi Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Miao Cui , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates the secrecy performance of sub-optimal transmitter selection (SS) and optimal selection (OS) schemes in a system comprising multiple transmitters, multiple eavesdroppers, and a single destination in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Shashi Bhushan Kotwal , Chinmoy Kundu , Sudhakar Modem , Mark F. Flanagan

Wireless communication is susceptible to adversarial eavesdropping due to the broadcast nature of the wireless medium. In this paper it is shown how eavesdropping can be alleviated by exploiting the superposition property of the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

This letter proposes a novel UAV-enabled mobile jamming scheme to improve the secrecy rate of ground wiretap channel. Specifically, a UAV is employed to transmit jamming signals to combat against eavesdropping. Such a mobile jamming scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 An Li , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Satellites are becoming exceedingly critical for communication, making them prime targets for cyber-physical attacks. We consider a rogue satellite in low Earth orbit that jams the uplink communication between another satellite and a ground…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Filippos Fotiadis , Quentin Rommel , Brian M. Sadler , Ufuk Topcu

This letter studies information-theoretic security without knowing the eavesdropper's channel fading state. We present an alternative secrecy outage formulation to measure the probability that message transmissions fail to achieve perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay , Behrouz Maham , Are Hjorungnes

Satellite communications have recently entered a period of renewed interest motivated by technological advances and nurtured through private investment and ventures. The present survey aims at capturing the state of the art in SatComs,…

This paper examines the impact of emerging fluid antenna systems (FAS) on reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided secure communications. Specifically, we consider a classic wiretap channel, where a fixed-antenna transmitter sends…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Wee Kiat New , Hao Xu

With the rising use of aircrafts for operations ranging from disaster-relief to warfare, there is a growing risk of adversarial attacks. Malicious entities often only require the location of the aircraft for these attacks. Current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yaman Jandali , Nojan Sheybani , Farinaz Koushanfar

Although a significant number satellites are deemed essential for facilitating diverse applications of satellite networks, aerial platforms are emerging as excellent alternatives for enabling reliable communications with fewer satellites.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Chang-Sik Choi