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In this paper, we propose an algorithm that targets contamination and eavesdropping adversaries. We consider the case when the number of independent packets available to the eavesdropper is less than the multicast capacity of the network.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-05-16 Yejun Zhou , Hui Li , Jianfeng Ma

Ambient backscatter communications have been introduced as low-power communications for green networking. This technology is very promising as it recycles ambient radio frequency waves, however such systems have limitations and suffer from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Romain Fara , Nada Bel-Haj-Maati , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Nadine Malhouroux , Marco Di Renzo

The vision of battery-free communication has made backscatter a compelling technology for on-body wearable and implantable devices. Recent advances have facilitated the communication between backscatter tags and on-body smart devices. These…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Zhiqing Luo , Wei Wang , Jiang Xiao , Qianyi Huang , Tao Jiang , Qian Zhang

In this paper, we study the design of secure communication for time division duplexing multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with active eavesdropping. We assume that the eavesdropper actively attacks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Yongpeng Wu , Chao-Kai Wen , Wen Chen , Shi Jin , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire

Imperfect secrecy in communication systems is investigated. Instead of using equivocation as a measure of secrecy, the distortion that an eavesdropper incurs in producing an estimate of the source sequence is examined. The communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Curt Schieler , Eva C. Song , Paul Cuff , H. Vincent Poor

This letter studies the practical design of secure transmissions without knowing eavesdropper's channel state information (ECSI). An ECSI-irrelevant metric is introduced to quantize the intrinsic anti-eavesdropping ability (AEA) that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Hao Deng

In this paper, we consider the transmission of confidential messages over slow fading wireless channels in the presence of an eavesdropper. We propose a transmission scheme that employs a single reconfigurable antenna at each of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-06 Ahmed M. Alaa

This letter introduces a novel wireless-powered backscatter communication system which allows sensors to utilize RF signals transmitted from a dedicated RF energy source to transmit data. In the proposed system, when the RF energy source…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Nguyen Van Huynh , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Dong In Kim

Ambient backscatter communication system is an emerging and promising low-energy technology for Internet of Things. In such system, a device named tag, sends a binary message to a reader by backscattering a radio frequency signal generated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Romain Fara , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien de Rosny

This paper considers a cyber-physical system under an active eavesdropping attack. A remote legitimate user estimates the state of a linear plant from the state information received from a sensor. Transmissions from the sensor occur via an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Matthew Crimson , Justin M. Kennedy , Daniel E. Quevedo

Ambient backscatter communication is a newly emerged paradigm, which utilizes the ambient radio frequency (RF) signal as the carrier to reduce the system battery requirement, and is regarded as a promising solution for enabling large scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-11 Qin Tao , Caijun Zhong , Hai Lin , Zhaoyang Zhang

We study a novel communication mechanism, ambient backscatter, that utilizes radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted from an ambient source as both energy supply and information carrier to enable communications between low-power devices.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Jing Qian , Feifei Gao , Gongpu Wang , Shi Jin , Hongbo Zhu

Recently, cellular Ambient Backscattering has been proposed for cellular networks. Up to now an Ambient backscatter device, called zero-energy device or tag, broadcasted its message by backscattering ambient downlink waves from the closest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ahmed ElSanhoury , Islam Galal , Khaled AlKady , Aml ElKhodary , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Ayman M. Hassan

We consider the problem of secure communication with multi-antenna transmission in fading channels. The transmitter simultaneously transmits an information bearing signal to the intended receiver and artificial noise to the eavesdroppers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay

Secrecy encoding for remote state estimation in the presence of adversarial eavesdroppers is a well studied problem. Typical existing secrecy encoding schemes rely on the transmitter's knowledge of the remote estimator's current…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Justin M. Kennedy , Jason J. Ford , Daniel E. Quevedo , Falko Dressler

This paper considers a multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink system with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. In particular, we focus on secure communication in the presence of passive eavesdroppers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Ernest S. Lo , Robert Schober

Semantic communications conveys task-relevant meaning rather than focusing solely on message reconstruction, improving bandwidth efficiency and robustness for next-generation wireless systems. However, learned semantic representations can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

We design a new secure transmission scheme in the relay wiretap channel where a source communicates with a destination through a decode-and-forward relay in the presence of spatially random-distributed eavesdroppers. For the sake of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Chenxi Liu , Nan Yang , Robert Malaney , Jinhong Yuan

In this paper, we study the design of secure communication for time division duplex multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with active eavesdropping. We assume that the eavesdropper actively attacks the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Yongpeng Wu , Chao-Kai Wen , Wen Chen , Shi Jin , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire

We assume that a buffer-aided transmitter communicates with a receiving node in the presence of an attacker. We investigate the impact of a radio-frequency energy-harvesting attacker that probabilistically operates as a jammer or an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Ahmed El Shafie , Kamel Tourki , Zhiguo Ding , Naofal Al-Dhahir