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The white book released by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) calls for extremely high-security and low-latency communication over fading channels. Under the low-latency requirement, the corresponding fading model is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Changhong Liu , Jingjing Wang , Qiaosheng Zhang , Jinpeng Xu , Lin Zhou

This paper presents a lightweight, protocol-agnostic security enhancement for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Building on a backscatter-based identification mechanism,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Taki Eddine Djidjekh , Alexandru Takacs , Gaël Loubet , Lamoussa Sanogo , Daniela Dragomirescu

Widely-deployed encryption-based security prevents unauthorized decoding, but does not ensure undetectability of communication. However, covert, or low probability of detection/intercept (LPD/LPI) communication is crucial in many scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Boulat A. Bash , Dennis Goeckel , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley

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

Scatter radio, i.e., communication by means of reflection, has been recently proposed as a viable ultra-low power solution for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This work offers a detailed comparison between monostatic and multistatic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Panos N. Alevizos , Konstantinos Tountas , Aggelos Bletsas

In this two-part paper, we consider the transmission of confidential data over wireless wiretap channels. The first part presents an information-theoretic problem formulation in which two legitimate partners communicate over a quasi-static…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Matthieu Bloch , Joao Barros , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues , Steven W. McLaughlin

Wireless power transfer (WPT) technologies are becoming ubiquitous, but unlike wire technologies, they do not allow efficient energy transfer through barely transparent barriers. The proposed solutions to this issue rely on resonantly…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-16 Alex Krasnok

Wireless power transfer and backscatter communications have emerged as promising solutions for energizing and communicating with power limited devices. Despite some progress in wirelessly powered backscatter communications, the focus has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Zati Bayani Zawawi , Yang Huang , Bruno Clerckx

Covert communication aims to hide the very existence of wireless transmissions in order to guarantee a strong security in wireless networks. In this work, we examine the possibility and achievable performance of covert communication in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jinsong Hu , Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Feng Shu , Jun Li , Jiangzhou Wang

The proliferation of sixth-generation (6G) networks and the massive Internet of Things (IoT) demand wireless communication technologies that are ultra-low-power, secure, and covert. Noise-based communication has emerged as a transformative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Higo T. P. Da Silva , Hugerles S. Silva , Felipe A. P. Figueiredo , Andre A. Dos Anjos , Rausley A. A. Souza

We study the effect of node mobility on the throughput scaling of the covert communication over a wireless adhoc network. It is assumed that $n$ mobile nodes want to communicate each other in a unit disk while keeping the presence of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Hyeon-Seong Im , Si-Hyeon Lee

Reliable communication imposes an upper limit on the achievable rate, namely the Shannon capacity. Wyner's wiretap coding, which ensures a security constraint also, in addition to reliability, results in decrease of the achievable rate. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Shahid M. Shah , Vinod Sharma

We study the secrecy of an optical communication system with two scattering layers, to hide both the sender and receiver, by measuring the correlation of the intermediate speckle generated between the two layers. The binary message is…

We consider the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wiretap channel under a minimum receiver-side power constraint in addition to the usual maximum transmitter-side power constraint. This problem is motivated by energy harvesting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

We introduce inter-technology backscatter, a novel approach that transforms wireless transmissions from one technology to another, on the air. Specifically, we show for the first time that Bluetooth transmissions can be used to create Wi-Fi…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Vikram Iyer , Vamsi Talla , Bryce Kellogg , Shyamnath Gollakota , Joshua R. Smith

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 study covert classical communication over a quantum multiple-access channel (MAC) with a helper. Specifically, we consider three transmitters, where one transmitter helps the other two transmitters communicate covertly with a receiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Hassan ZivariFard , Rémi A. Chou , Xiaodong Wang

Covert communications hide the transmission of a message from a watchful adversary while ensuring a certain decoding performance at the receiver. In this work, a wireless communication system under fading channels is considered where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Feng Shu , Jun Li

This paper considers the problem of covert communication with mismatched decoding, in which a sender wishes to reliably communicate with a receiver whose decoder is fixed and possibly sub-optimal, and simultaneously to ensure that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Qiaosheng Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, the broadcast nature of wireless channels makes SemCom systems vulnerable to eavesdropping, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shunpu Tang , Yuhao Chen , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Zhiguo Shi