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Networks are designed with functionality, security, performance, and cost in mind. Tools exist to check or optimize individual properties of a network. These properties may conflict, so it is not always possible to run these tools in series…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Timothy Curry , Devon Callahan , Benjamin Fuller , Laurent Michel

For autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) secure communications, traditional designs based on fixed position antenna (FPA) lack sufficient spatial degrees of freedom (DoF), which leaves the line-of-sight-dominated AAV links vulnerable to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Yingjie Wu , Junshan Luo , Weiyu Chen , Shilian Wang , Fanggang Wang , Haiyang Ding

Wireless communications are particularly vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks due to their broadcast nature. To effectively deal with eavesdroppers, existing security techniques usually require accurate channel state information (CSI), e.g.,…

Emitting phased array RF systems have to contend with an ever-increasing number of eavesdroppers as technological advancements provide lower cost and/or more capable radios. Often, eavesdroppers can accumulate sufficient information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 David Couto , Arash Samani , Alec Yonika

The rapid evolution of communication technologies and the emergence of sixth-generation (6G) networks have introduced unprecedented opportunities for ultra-reliable, low-latency, and energy-efficient communication. However, the integration…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Masoud Kaveh , Kai-Kit Wong , Diego Martin , Riku Jantti , Zheng Yan

This paper investigates physical layer security for a large-scale WSN with random multiple access, where each fusion center in the network randomly schedules a number of sensors to upload their sensed data subject to the overhearing of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Tong-Xing Zheng , Xin Chen , Chao Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Jinhong Yuan

A novel Physical Layer Security (PLS) framework is conceived for enhancing the security of the wireless communication systems by exploiting multi-domain polarization in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems. We design a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Luping Xiang , Yao Zeng , Jie Hu , Kun Yang , Lajos Hanzo

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is consisting of independent and distributed sensors to monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, pressure, etc. The most crucial and fundamental challenge facing WSN is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Yassine Maleh , Abdellah Ezzati

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are vulnerable to eavesdropping as the sensor nodes (SNs) communicate over an open radio channel. Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology can be leveraged for physical layer security in WSNs. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Mohammad Faisal Ahmed , Kunwar Pritiraj Rajput , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Aditya K. Jagannatham

The extensive deployment of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites introduces significant security challenges for communication security issues in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. With the rising number of satellites potentially acting as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Anna Talgat , Ruibo Wang , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Quantum communication protocols can be designed to detect eavesdropping attacks, something that classical technologies are unable to do since classical information can be replicated in a non-destructive manner. Eavesdropping detection is,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Santanu Majhi , Debajyoti Bera

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a key enabler for providing signal coverage, energy efficiency, reliable communication, and physical layer security (PLS) in next-generation wireless communication networks. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Ahmet Muaz Aktas , Sefa Kayraklik , Sultangali Arzykulov , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev , Ibrahim Hokelek , Ali Gorcin

Physical Layer Security (PLS) is an emerging concept in the field of secrecy for wireless communications that can be used alongside cryptography to prevent unauthorized devices from eavesdropping a legitimate transmission. It offers low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Leonardo Barbosa da Silva , Evelio Martín Garcia Fernández , Ândrei Camponogara

Wavefront engineering for applications in near-field wireless connectivity is gradually becoming common ground. In this landscape, beams that propagate on bent paths are ideal candidates for dynamic blockage avoidance and suppression of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Sotiris Droulias , Giorgos Stratidakis , Angeliki Alexiou

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can adaptively adjust the phase shifts of its reflecting units to strengthen the desired signal and/or suppress the undesired signal. In this letter, we investigate an IRS-aided secure wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser full-duplex secure communication system with hardware impairments at transceivers and RIS, where multiple eavesdroppers overhear the two-way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Zhangjie Peng , Zhibo Zhang , Lei Kong , Cunhua Pan , Li Li , Jiangzhou Wang

Wireless communication provides a wide coverage at the cost of exposing information to unintended users. As an information-theoretic paradigm, secrecy rate derives bounds for secure transmission when the channel to the eavesdropper is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ashkan Kalantari , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Sina Maleki , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Future radar systems are expected to use waveforms of a high bandwidth, where the main advantage is an improved range resolution. In this paper, a technique to design robust wideband waveforms for a Multiple-Input-Single-Output system is…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-17 Ashkan Panahi , Marie Ström , Mats Viberg

With the development of sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication networks, the security challenges are becoming increasingly prominent, especially for mobile users (MUs). As a promising solution, physical layer security (PLS) technology…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Wenxuan Ma , Bin Lin , Hongyang Pan , Geng Sun , Enyu Shi , Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen

The 6G wireless networks impose extremely high requirements on physical layer secure communication. However, the existing solutions usually can only achieve one-dimensional physical layer security (PLS) in the angle dimension, and cannot…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Zhendong Wang , Chenyang Meng , Jun Yang , Jiayuan Wang , Yin Li , Linshan Jiang , Jin Zhang