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Driven by B5G and 6G technologies, multi-network fusion is an indispensable tendency for future communications. In this paper, we focus on and analyze the \emph{security performance} (SP) of the \emph{satellite-terrestrial downlink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Xudong Li , Ye Fan , Rugui Yao , Peng Wang , Nan Qi , Xiaoya Zuo

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

Pinching-antenna systems have recently gained significant attention as a novel reconfigurable-antenna technology due to its exceptional capability of mitigating signal-propagation path loss. In this letter, we investigate the secrecy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Nianzu Li , Weidong Mei , Lipeng Zhu , Peiran Wu , Boyu Ning

We study the security of communication between a single transmitter and multiple receivers in a broadcast channel in the presence of an eavesdropper. We consider several special classes of channels. As the first model, we consider the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-02 Ersen Ekrem , Sennur Ulukus

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is emerging as a promising technique for performance enhancement for next-generation wireless networks. This paper investigates the physical layer security of an RIS-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Wei Shi , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Chunming Zhao

The uplink from a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) towards multiple satellites is considered, in this paper. VSATs can be equipped with multiple antennas, allowing parallel transmission to multiple satellites. A low-complexity precoder…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Maik Röper , Bho Matthiesen , Dirk Wübben , Petar Popovski , Armin Dekorsy

In this paper, we study the design of secure communication for time division duplex multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with active eavesdropping. We assume that the eavesdropper actively attacks the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Yongpeng Wu , Chao-Kai Wen , Wen Chen , Shi Jin , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire

Satellite-terrestrial networks (STNs) have emerged as a promising architecture for providing seamless wireless coverage and connectivity for multiple users. However, potential malicious eavesdroppers pose a serious threat to the private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yujie Ling , Zan Li , Lei Guan , Zheng Zhang , Shengyu Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Two-hop security communication with an eavesdropper in wireless environment is a hot research direction. The basic idea is that the destination, simultaneously with the source, sends a jamming signal to interfere the eavesdropper near to or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-03 Zhen Qu , Shengli Zhang , Mingjun Dai , Hui Wang

In this paper, we propose a transmission scheme that achieves information theoretic security, without making assumptions on the eavesdropper's channel. This is achieved by a transmitter that deliberately introduces synchronization errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Jason Castiglione , Aleksandar Kavcic

This work investigates the secrecy outage performance of the uplink transmission of a radio-frequency (RF)-free-space optical (FSO) hybrid cooperative satellite-aerial-terrestrial network (SATN). Specifically, in the considered cooperative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Yuanyuan Ma , Tiejun Lv , Gaofeng Pan , Yunfei Chen , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been undergoing fast development for providing broader signal coverage and more extensive surveillance capabilities in military and civilian applications. Due to the broadcast nature of the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Jinchuan Tang , Gaojie Chen , Justin P. Coon

The secrecy of a communication system in which both the legitimate receiver and an eavesdropper are allowed some distortion is investigated. The secrecy metric considered is the exponent of the probability that the eavesdropper estimates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Ibrahim Issa , Aaron B. Wagner

Conventionally, unconditional information security has been studied by quantum cryptography although the assumption of an omnipotent eavesdropper is too strict for some realistic implementations. In this paper, we study the realistic secret…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-30 Ziwen Pan , Ivan B. Djordjevic

This paper investigates the theoretical basis for using ground relaying in multi-antenna satellites exposed to blocking situations. Inactive and unobstructed User Equipments (UEs) located on ground are the relaying nodes of UEs that are not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Hadi Hashemi , Beatriz Soret , M. Carmen Aguayo-Torres

A secure downlink transmission system which is exposed to multiple eavesdroppers and is appropriate for Internet of Things (IoT) applications is considered. A worst case scenario is assumed, in the sense that, in order to enhance their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-17 Pingmu Huang , Yunqin Hao , Tiejun Lv , Jintao Xing , Jie Yang , P. Takis Mathiopoulos

The use of multiple source nodes with wireless backhaul is considered for secrecy enhancement through source node selection in future wireless networks. The ergodic secrecy rate (ESR) of {optimal source node selection in the presence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Chinmoy Kundu , Mark F. Flanagan

This letter investigates the secure delivery performance of the rate-splitting multiple access scheme in land mobile satellite (LMS) systems, considering that the private messages intended by a terminal can be eavesdropped by any others…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Minjue He , Hui Zhao , Xiaqing Miao , Shuai Wang , Gaofeng Pan

This paper studies the intercept behavior of an industrial wireless sensor network (WSN) consisting of a sink node and multiple sensors in the presence of an eavesdropping attacker, where the sensors transmit their sensed information to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Yulong Zou , Gongpu Wang

This paper studies the problem of secure communication over the broadcast channel with receiver side information under the lens of individual secrecy constraints. That is, the transmitter wants to send two independent messages to two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Yanling Chen , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Aydin Sezgin