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A frequency domain (FD) time-reversal (TR) precoder is proposed to perform physical layer security (PLS) in single-input single-output (SISO) system using orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). To maximize the secrecy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Sidney Golstein , Trung-Hien Nguyen , François Horlin , Philippe De Doncker , Julien Sarrazin

This paper considers a cooperative jamming (CJ)-aided secure wireless communication system. Conventionally, the jammer transmits Gaussian noise (GN) to enhance security; however, the GN scheme also degrades the legitimate receiver's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Hao Yang , Hao Xu , Kai Wan , Sijie Zhao , Robert Caiming Qiu

This paper studies the secrecy rate maximization problem of a secure wireless communication system, in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. The security of the communication link is enhanced through cooperative jamming, with the help of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Kanapathippillai Cumanan , George C. Alexandropoulos , Zhgiuo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

In this paper, we investigate joint power control and access point (AP) selection scheme in a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system under an active eavesdropping attack, where an eavesdropper tries to overhear…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yasseen Sadoon Atiya , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

This paper develops a tractable framework for exploiting the potential benefits of physical layer security in three-tier wireless sensor networks using stochastic geometry. In such networks, the sensing data from the remote sensors are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Yansha Deng , Lifeng Wang , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Ranjan K. Mallik

A wireless communication network is considered, consisting of a source (Alice), a destination (Bob) and an eavesdropper (Eve), each equipped with a single antenna. The communication is assisted by multiple helpers, each equipped with two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Shuangyu Luo , Jiangyuan Li , Athina Petropulu

This paper exploits the potential of physical layer security in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) aided two-tier heterogeneous networks (HetNets). We focus on the downlink secure transmission in the presence of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Yansha Deng , Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Arumugam Nallanathan , Maged Elkashlan

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is a crucial component of future wireless networks, enabling seamless integration of Communication and Sensing (C\&S) functionalities. However, ensuring security in ISAC systems remains a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Yongxiao Li , Feroz Khan , Manzoor Ahmed , Aized Amin Soofi , Wali Ullah Khan , Chandan Kumar Sheemar , Muhammad Asif , Zhu Han

In this paper, we consider a two-way relay network where two sources can communicate only through an untrusted intermediate relay, and investigate the physical layer security issue of this two-way relay scenario. Specifically, we treat the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Rongqing Zhang , Lingyang song Zhu Han , Bingli Jiao

This paper investigates the utilization of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RIS (STAR-RIS) in supporting joint physical layer security (PLS) and covert communications (CCs) in a multi-antenna millimeter wave (mmWave) system, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Ang Li , Wenjie Wang , Zhou Su , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang

There has been an increasing interest in physical layer security (PLS), which, compared with conventional cryptography, offers a unique approach to guaranteeing information confidentiality against eavesdroppers. In this paper, we study a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Duc M. T. Hoang , Thanh V. Pham , Anh T. Pham , Chuyen T Nguyen

Physical layer security is an emerging technique to improve the wireless communication security, which is widely regarded as a complement to cryptographic technologies. To design physical layer security techniques under practical scenarios,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou , Thushara D. Abhayapala

This paper studies the physical layer security (PLS) of a vehicular network employing a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). RIS technologies are emerging as an important paradigm for the realisation of smart radio environments, where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Abubakar U. Makarfi , Khaled M. Rabie , Omprakash Kaiwartya , Xingwang Li , Rupak Kharel

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute a strong candidate physical-layer technology for the $6$-th Generation (6G) of wireless networks, offering new design degrees of freedom for efficiently addressing demanding performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , George C. Alexandropoulos

We explore the additional security obtained by noise at the physical layer in a wiretap channel model setting. Security enhancements at the physical layer have been proposed recently using a secrecy metric based on the degrees of freedom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-24 W. K. Harrison , J. Almeida , S. W. McLaughlin , J. Barros

Short-packet communication is a key technology to support two emerging application scenarios in 5G and beyond 5G, massive machine type communication (mMTC) and ultra-reliable low latency communication (uRLLC), which are introduced to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Chen Feng , Hui-ming Wang

Physical layer security is essential in optical networks. In this paper, we study a jamming-aware control plane, in which a high power jamming attack exists in the network. The studied control plane considers that the jammed connections can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Ítalo Brasileiro , Mounir Bensalem , André Drummond , Admela Jukan

This letter investigates the potential of pinching-antenna systems for enhancing physical layer security. By pre-installing multiple pinching antennas at discrete positions along a waveguide, the capability of the considered system to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Recently, physical layer security based approaches have drawn considerable attentions and are envisaged to provide secure communications in the wireless networks. However, most existing literatures only focus on the physical layer. Thus,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Jun Wang , Pengfei Huang , Xudong Wang

Physical layer security (PLS) is seen as the means to enhance physical layer trustworthiness in 6G. This work provides a proof-of-concept for one of the most mature PLS technologies, i.e., secret key generation (SKG) from wireless fading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Amitha Mayya , Miroslav Mitev , Arsenia Chorti , Gerhard Fettweis