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In multiple antenna systems employing time-division duplexing, spatial precoder design at the base station (BS) leverages channel state information acquired through uplink pilot transmission, under the assumption of channel reciprocity.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Donatella Darsena , Giacinto Gelli , Ivan Iudice , Francesco Verde

UAVs are capable of improving the performance of next generation wireless systems. Specifically, UAVs can be exploited as aerial base-stations (UAV-BS) for supporting legitimate ground users in remote uncovered areas or in environments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hamed Bastami , Hamid Behroozi , Majid Moradikia , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Derrick Wing Kwan Ngand , Lajos Hanzo

We consider a Gaussian MISO wiretap channel, where a multi-antenna source communicates with a single-antenna destination in the presence of a single-antenna eavesdropper. The communication is assisted by multi-antenna helpers that act as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Shuangyu Luo , Jiangyuan Li , Athina Petropulu

The distributed inference framework comprises of a group of spatially distributed nodes which acquire observations about a phenomenon of interest. Due to bandwidth and energy constraints, the nodes often quantize their observations into a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-20 Bhavya Kailkhura , V. Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla , Pramod K. Varshney

The growing demand for broader bandwidth in cellular networks has turned the upper mid-band (7-24 GHz) into a focal point for expansion. However, the integration of terrestrial cellular and incumbent satellite services, particularly in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-08 Seongjoon Kang , Giovanni Geraci , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan

The existing research on physical layer security commonly assumes the number of eavesdropper antennas to be known. Although this assumption allows one to easily compute the achievable secrecy rate, it can hardly be realized in practice. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou , Thushara D. Abhayapala

Due to great efficiency improvement in resource and hardware space, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has gained much attention. In the paper, the physical layer security (PLS) of ISAC system under communication eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tian Zhang , Zhirong Su , Yueyi Dong

This paper investigates the performance of downlink cellular networks with non-coherent joint (mutlipoint) transmissions and practical channel estimation. Under a stochastic geometry framework, the spatial average signal-to-noise-ratio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Stelios Stefanatos , Gerhard Wunder

This paper investigates the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to assist covert communication between a low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite and a ground user under the surveillance of a passive warden. The UAV simultaneously serves its own…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Hung D. Nguyen , Jeongseok Ha

We consider networks of noisy degraded wiretap channels in the presence of an eavesdropper. For the case where the eavesdropper can wiretap at most one channel at a time, we show that the secrecy capacity region, for a broad class of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Theodoros K. Dikaliotis , Hongyi Yao , Tracey Ho , Michelle Effros , Joerg Kliewer

This paper proposes a new design of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) under secrecy considerations. We focus on a NOMA system where a transmitter sends confidential messages to multiple users in the presence of an external eavesdropper.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Biao He , An Liu , Nan Yang , Vincent K. N. Lau

In this paper, we consider communication on a two-hop channel, in which a source wants to send information reliably and securely to the destination via a relay. We consider both the untrusted relay case and the external eavesdropper case.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Zhijie Ren , Jasper Goseling , Jos H. Weber , Michael Gastpar

The secrecy capacity of relay channels with orthogonal components is studied in the presence of an additional passive eavesdropper node. The relay and destination receive signals from the source on two orthogonal channels such that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-09 Vaneet Aggarwal , Lalitha Sankar , A. Robert Calderbank , H. Vincent Poor

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided jamming technique for enabling physical layer keyless security in scenarios where the exact eavesdropper location is unknown. We assume that the unknown eavesdropper location is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Christantus O. Nnamani , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Mathini Sellathurai

In this article, a joint security and latency analysis of short packet-based low-altitude communications when the eavesdropper is close to the receiver is addressed. To reveal the impacts of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and block-length…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Zeyin Wang , Di Zhang , Shaobo Jia , Lulu Song , Yanqun Tang

This article examines the secrecy coding aided wireless communications from a source to a destination in the presence of an eavesdropper from a security-reliability tradeoff (SRT) perspective. Explicitly, the security is quantified in terms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yulong Zou , Jia Zhu , Xuelong Li , Lajos Hanzo

Recently, several global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) emerged following the transformative technology impact of the first GNSS: US Global Positioning System (GPS). The power level of GNSS signals as measured at the earths surface is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Erick Schmidt , Zach A. Ruble , David Akopian , Daniel J. Pack

Wireless communication is susceptible to adversarial eavesdropping due to the broadcast nature of the wireless medium. In this paper it is shown how eavesdropping can be alleviated by exploiting the superposition property of the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

The performance of collaborative beamforming is analyzed using the theory of random arrays. The statistical average and distribution of the beampattern of randomly generated phased arrays is derived in the framework of wireless ad hoc…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Hideki Ochiai , Patrick Mitran , H. Vincent Poor , Vahid Tarokh

One of the great potentials to improve the confidentiality in mmWave/THz at the physical layer of technical communication, measured by the secrecy rate, lies in the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). However, an important…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Chu Li , Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin