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Wireless power transfer (WPT) using energy beamforming is a promising solution for low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this work, we consider WPT from an energy transmitter (ET) employing retrodirective WPT using a large phased…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Sahar Idrees , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Dusit Niyato

In this paper we investigate cooperative secure communications in a four-node cognitive radio network where the secondary receiver is treated as a potential eavesdropper with respect to the primary transmission. The secondary user is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-06 Pin-Hsun Lin , Frédéric Gabry , Ragnar Thobaben , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Mikael Skoglund

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have several prominent advantages, including improving the level of wireless communications security and privacy. In this work, we focus on this aspect and envision a strategy to counteract the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Francesco Malandrino , Alessandro Nordio , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

We consider a cooperative wireless network in the presence of one of more eavesdroppers, and exploit node cooperation for achieving physical (PHY) layer based security. Two different cooperation schemes are considered. In the first scheme,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Jiangyuan Li , Athina P. Petropulu , Steven Weber

In the era of the Internet of Things and massive connectivity, many engineering applications, such as sensor fusion and federated edge learning, rely on efficient data aggregation from geographically distributed users over wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 David Nordlund , Luis Maßny , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Erik G. Larsson , Zheng Chen

In this paper, a learning-aided content-based wireless image transmission scheme is proposed, where a multi-antenna-aided source wishes to securely deliver an image to a legitimate destination in the presence of randomly distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mehdi Letafati , Hamid Behroozi , Babak Hossein Khalaj , Eduard A. Jorswieck

In this paper, downlink secure transmission in simultaneous information and power transfer (SWIPT) system enabled with massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is studied. A base station (BS) with a large number of antennas transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Zahra Goli , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Hamed Farhadi , Tommy Svensson

This paper focuses on secure backscatter transmission in the presence of a passive multi-antenna eavesdropper through a symbiotic radio (SR) network. Specifically, a single-antenna backscatter device (BD) aims to transmit confidential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Mingcheng Nie , Deepak Mishra , Azzam Al-nahari , Jinhong Yuan , Riku Jantti

One of the key challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to sustainably power the large number of IoT devices in real-time. In this paper, we consider a wireless power transfer (WPT) scenario between an energy transmitter (ET) capable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Sahar Idrees , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Dusit Niyato

This paper studies a secrecy integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) aims to send confidential messages to a single-antenna communication user (CU), and at the same time sense several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zixiang Ren , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu

A scheme for secure communications, called ``Secret-message Transmission by Echoing Encrypted Probes (STEEP)'', is revisited. STEEP is a round-trip scheme with a probing phase from one user to another and an echoing phase in the reverse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Yingbo Hua

This paper studies the problem of secure communication over a K-transmitter multiple access channel in the presence of an external eavesdropper, subject to a joint secrecy constraint (i.e., information leakage rate from the collection of K…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Yanling Chen , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , A. J. Han Vinck

Backscatter communication has attracted significant attention for Internet-of-Things applications due to its ultra-low-power consumption. The state-of-the-art backscatter systems no longer require dedicated carrier generators and leverage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Qiwei Wang , Wei Gong

Consider the Gaussian wiretap channel, where a transmitter wishes to send a confidential message to a legitimate receiver in the presence of an eavesdropper. It is well known that if the eavesdropper experiences less channel noise than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Vidhi Rana , Remi A. Chou , Taejoon Kim

The field of backscatter communication has undergone a profound transformation, evolving from a niche technology for radio-frequency identification (RFID) into a sophisticated paradigm poised to enable a truly battery-free Internet of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yang Liu

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a scheme to render the detection apparatus of a Quantum Key Distribution system immune to the main classes of hacking attacks in which the eavesdropper explores the back-door opened by the…

In this paper, we consider the design of a new secrecy transmission scheme for a four-node relay-eavesdropper channel. The key idea of the proposed scheme is to combine noisy network coding with the interference assisted strategy for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-27 Peng Xu , Zhiguo Ding , and Xuchu Dai , Kin Leung

This paper presents a new cooperative jamming approach to secure the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication by leveraging jamming from other nearby UAVs to defend against the eavesdropping. In particular, we consider a two-UAV scenario…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Canhui Zhong , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

Hiding messages for countless security purposes has become a highly fascinating subject nowadays. Encryption facilitates the data hiding. With the express development of technology, people tend to figure out a method capable of hiding a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sachith Dassanayaka

As our cities become more intelligent and more connected with new technologies like 6G, improving communication between vehicles and infrastructure is essential while reducing energy consumption. This study proposes a secure framework for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Ruotong Zhao , Deepak Mishra , Aruna Seneviratne