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We propose a secure transmission scheme for a relay wiretap channel, where a source communicates with a destination via a decode-and-forward relay in the presence of spatially random-distributed eavesdroppers. We assume that the source is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Chenxi Liu , Nan Yang , Jinhong Yuan , Robert Malaney

The boom of the Internet of Things has revolutionized people's lives, but it has also resulted in massive resource consumption and environmental pollution. Recently, Green IoT (GIoT) has become a worldwide consensus to address this issue.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yimeng Huang , Lijie Liu , Jihong Yu , Yuguang Fang , Wei Gong

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) leverages the existing ambient radio frequency (RF) environment to implement communication with battery-free devices. One critical challenge of AmBC systems is signal recovery because the transmitted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Wenjing Liu , Shanpu Shen , Danny H. K. Tsang , Ranjan K. Mallik , Ross Murch

Information theoretic secrecy is combined with cryptographic secrecy to create a secret-key exchange protocol for wireless networks. A network of transmitters, which already have cryptographically secured channels between them, cooperate to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Toni Draganov Stojanovski , Ninoslav Marina

Cooperative jamming is an approach that has been recently proposed for improving physical layer based security for wireless networks in the presence of an eavesdropper. While the source transmits its message to its destination, a relay node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-30 Lun Dong , Zhu Han , Athina P. Petropulu , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we introduce the new concept of Crowd-Detectable Zero-Energy-Devices. Such devices harvest solar or ambient light energy to power themselves, backscatter ambient waves to communicate, and are detected simultaneously by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 D. -T. Phan-Huy , D. Barthel , P. Ratajczak , R. Fara , M. di Renzo , J. de Rosny

This paper studies a new active eavesdropping technique via the so-called spoofing relay attack, which could be launched by the eavesdropper to significantly enhance the information leakage rate from the source over conventional passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided jamming technique for enabling physical layer keyless security in scenarios where the exact eavesdropper location is unknown. We assume that the unknown eavesdropper location is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Christantus O. Nnamani , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Mathini Sellathurai

A novel private communication framework is proposed where privacy is induced by transmitting over a channel instances of linear inverse problems that are identifiable to the legitimate receiver but unidentifiable to an eavesdropper. The gap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Jianxiu Li , Urbashi Mitra

Sixth generation (6G) mobile networks may include new passive technologies, such as ambient backscatter communication or the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, to avoid the emission of waves and the corresponding energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Romain Fara , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Philippe Ratajczak , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien de Rosny

This paper enables connectivity on everyday objects by transforming them into FM radio stations. To do this, we show for the first time that ambient FM radio signals can be used as a signal source for backscatter communication. Our design…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Anran Wang , Vikram Iyer , Vamsi Talla , Joshua R. Smith , Shyamnath Gollakota

This work studies near-field secure communications through transmit beamfocusing. We examine the benefit of having a protected eavesdropper-free zone around the legitimate receiver, and we determine the worst-case secrecy performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Cen Liu , Xiangyun Zhou , Nan Yang , Salman Durrani , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, we propose to use a wireless-powered friendly jammer to enable secure communication between a source node and destination node, in the presence of an eavesdropper. We consider a two-phase communication protocol with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Wanchun Liu , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Petar Popovski

This paper examines linear beamforming methods for secure communications in a multiuser wiretap channel with a single transmitter, multiple legitimate receivers, and a single eavesdropper, where all nodes are equipped with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Amitav Mukherjee , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Ambient Internet of Things networks use low-cost, low-power backscatter tags in various industry applications. By exploiting those tags, we introduce the integrated sensing and backscatter communication (ISABC) system, featuring multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 S. Zargari , D. Galappaththige , C. Tellambura

Secure communications are playing increasing roles in society, particularly in finance, journalism, and military projects. Current methods of securing e-mail and similar messaging methods rely on encryption of the message body, but the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-25 H. Bjorgvinsdottir , P. M. Bentley

In this paper, we consider the use of artificial noise for secure communications. We propose the notion of practical secrecy as a new design criterion based on the behavior of the eavesdropper's error probability $P_E$, as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Shuiyin Liu , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

Wireless powered backscatter communications is an attractive technology for next-generation low-powered sensor networks such as the Internet of Things. However, backscattering suffers from collisions due to multiple simultaneous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

Wireless sensors in extreme environments such as underground, concrete wall, and the human body, can enable a large number of important applications. However, deploying wireless sensors in such environments on a large scale is a great…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Hongzhi Guo , Zhi Sun

A novel movable antenna (MA)-aided secure transmission framework is proposed to enhance the secrecy transmission rate without relying on the eavesdropper's channel state information. Within this framework, a joint beamforming and jamming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Zhenqiao Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang