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In low-altitude wireless communications, the increased complexity of wireless channels and the uncertainty of eavesdroppers (Eves)--caused by diverse altitudes, speeds, and obstacles--pose significant challenges to physical layer security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yujia Zhao , Zhiyong Feng , Kan Yu , Qixun Zhang , Dong Li

This paper presents a comprehensive physical layer security (PLS) framework for fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided short-packet communications under the variable block-correlation model (VBCM). We consider a downlink wiretap scenario in which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jianchao Zheng , Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Baiyang Liu , Runyu Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Kin-Fai Tong , Sumei Sun

In industrial automation or emergency rescue, sensors and robots work together with the help of an edge information hub (EIH) containing both communication and computing modules. Typically, the EIH collects the sensing data via the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chengleyang Lei , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Jue Wang , Ning Ge , Shi Jin , Tony Q. S. Quek

This paper investigates physical layer security (PLS) in the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiple-user uplink channel. Since the instantaneous eavesdropper's channel state information (CSI) is unavailable, the secrecy rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xiangrui Cheng , Yiliang Liu , Zhou Su , Wei Wang

We propose a comprehensive framework exploiting the polarization sensitive array (PLA) to improve the physical layer security of wireless communications. More specifically, the polarization difference among signals is utilized to improve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Shiqi Gong , Chengwen Xing , Sheng Chen , Zesong Fei

This paper addresses Physical Layer Security (PLS) for a wireless sensor network in which multiple sensor nodes communicate with a single sink in the presence of an eavesdropper. Under the assumption of sink using outdated channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Furqan Jameel , Shurjeel Wyne , Ioannis Krikidis

The rise of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) is opening the door for unprecedented capabilities in visible light communication (VLC) systems. By controlling light propagation in indoor environments, it is possible to manipulate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Hanaa Abumarshoud , Cheng Chen , Iman Tavakkolnia , Harald Haas , Muhammad Ali Imran

This paper explores the application of a federated learning-based multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) strategy to enhance physical-layer security (PLS) in a multi-cellular network within the context of beyond 5G networks. At each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Deemah H. Tashman , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Walaa Hamouda

This paper investigates physical layer security (PLS) in a movable antenna (MA)-assisted full-duplex (FD) system. In this system, an FD base station (BS) with multiple MAs for transmission and reception provides services for an uplink (UL)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Chenbo Wang , Wenyao Li , Lifeng Lin , Bingli Jiao

In this work, we propose a new physical layer security framework for optical space networks. More precisely, we consider two practical eavesdropping scenarios: free-space optical (FSO) eavesdropping in the space and FSO eavesdropping in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Olfa Ben Yahia , Eylem Erdogan , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Ibrahim Altunbas , Halim Yanikomeroglu

This paper presents a secure wire-line telephone system that employs physical layer security (PLS) to protect against wiretapping. The system generates artificial noise (AN) in both transmission directions and uses a telephone hybrid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Lifeng Lin , Zijian Zhou , Peihe Jiang , Sanjun Liu , Lai Wei , Bingli Jiao

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) has been widely studied for capacity enhancement, but its potential for physical layer security (PLS) remains largely unexplored. By adjusting both three-dimensional (3D) positions and 3D rotations of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Yanzhi Qian , Jing Jiang , Jingze Ding , Xiaoshao Dan , Hongyun Chu

In this article, physical layer security (PLS) in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multiple-input multiple-output multiple antenna eavesdropper (MIMOME) system is studied. In particular, we consider a practical scenario…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Chi Zhang , Yiliang Liu , Hsiao-Hwa Chen

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

Wireless networks are vulnerable to jamming attacks due to the shared communication medium, which can severely degrade performance and disrupt services. Despite extensive research, current jamming detection methods often rely on simulated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ioannis Panitsas , Yagmur Yigit , Leandros Tassiulas , Leandros Maglaras , Berk Canberk

Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising paradigm for safeguarding 6G wireless networks by exploiting the inherent characteristics of wireless channels. However, the efficiency of conventional PLS is often limited by fixed orientation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ailing Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Xingxiang Peng , Qiaoyan Peng , Ziyuan Zheng , Yuxuan Chen , Wen Chen

We propose a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wiretap channel, where the RIS is strategically deployed to provide a spatial separation to the transmitter, and orthogonal combiners are employed at the legitimate receiver to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Xudong Li , Matthias Frey , Ehsan Tohidi , Igor Bjelaković , Sławomir Stańczak

Physical-layer security for wireless networks has become an effective approach and recently drawn significant attention in the literature. In particular, the deployment and allocation of resources such as relays to assist the transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-29 X. Lu , R. C. de Lamare

As a green and secure wireless transmission method, secure spatial modulation (SM) is becoming a hot research area. Its basic idea is to exploit both the index of activated transmit antenna and amplitude phase modulation signal to carry…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Feng Shu , Lin Liu , LiLi Yang , Xinyi Jiang , Guiyang Xia , Yuanyuan Wu , Xianpeng Wang , Shi Jin , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You

Channel Knowledge Map (CKM) is an emerging data-driven toolbox that captures our awareness of the wireless channel and enables efficient communication and resource allocation beyond the state of the art. In this work, we consider CKM for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Ladan Khaloopour , Matthias Hollick , Vahid Jamali