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Covert wireless communication aims to establish a reliable link while hiding the transmission from an adversary. In wireless settings, uncertainty plays a central role in this tradeoff: it can help mask the signal from a warden, but it also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Abbas Arghavani

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

Wireless communication provides a wide coverage at the cost of exposing information to unintended users. As an information-theoretic paradigm, secrecy rate derives bounds for secure transmission when the channel to the eavesdropper is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ashkan Kalantari , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Sina Maleki , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

This paper presents a framework for converting wireless signals into structured datasets, which can be fed into machine learning algorithms for the detection of active eavesdropping attacks at the physical layer. More specifically, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Tiep M. Hoang , Trung Q. Duong , Hoang Duong Tuan , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Emi Garcia-Palacios , Long D. Nguyen

Physical-layer security is emerging as a promising paradigm of securing wireless communications against eavesdropping between legitimate users, when the main link spanning from source to destination has better propagation conditions than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yulong Zou , Xianbin Wang , Weiming Shen , Lajos Hanzo

A MIMO secure two-hop wireless communication system is considered in this paper. In this model, there are no direct links between the source-destination and the source-eavesdropper. The problem is maximizing the secrecy capacity of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Ghadamali Bagherikaram , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Location privacy is one of the major security problems in a Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). An eavesdropper can keep track of the place and time devices are communicating. To make things even worse, the attacker does not have to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-18 Mohammed Mana , Mohammed Feham , Boucif Amar Bensaber

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the terrestrial cellular networks is envisioned as one key technology for next-generation wireless communications. In this work, we consider the physical layer security of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Sung Joon Maeng , Yavuz Yapıcı , İsmail Güvenç , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Traditionally, wireless network protocols have been designed for performance. Subsequently, as attacks have been identified, patches have been developed. This has resulted in an "arms race" development process of discovering vulnerabilities…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-12 Jonathan Ponniah , Yih-Chun Hu , P. R. Kumar

In this paper we consider the problem of secure network coding where an adversary has access to an unknown subset of links chosen from a known collection of links subsets. We study the capacity region of such networks, commonly called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Shirin Jalali , Tracey Ho

Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) is an emerging technology and explored field of researchers worldwide in the past few years, so does the need for effective security mechanisms. The sensing technology combined with processing power and wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Sahabul Alam , Debashis De

We consider the problem of securing a multicast network against a wiretapper that can intercept the packets on a limited number of arbitrary network edges of its choice. We assume that the network employs the network coding technique to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-22 Salim El Rouayheb , Emina Soljanin , Alex Sprintson

This paper considers a multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink system with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. In particular, we focus on secure communication in the presence of passive eavesdroppers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Ernest S. Lo , Robert Schober

Relay transmission can enhance coverage and throughput, while it can be vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks due to the additional transmission of the source message at the relay. Thus, whether or not one should use relay transmission for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Chunxiao Cai , Yueming Cai , Xiangyun Zhou , Weiwei Yang , Wendong Yang

Covert communication can prevent an adversary from knowing that a wireless transmission has occurred. In additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, a square root law is found that Alice can reliably and covertly transmit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Zhihong Liu , Jiajia Liu , Yong Zeng , Jianfeng Ma

This paper considers secure energy-efficient routing in the presence of multiple passive eavesdroppers. Previous work in this area has considered secure routing assuming probabilistic or exact knowledge of the location and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Majid Ghaderi , Hossein Pishro-Nik , Dennis Goeckel

This paper introduces a secure affine frequency division multiplexing (SE-AFDM) for wireless communication systems to enhance communication security. Besides configuring the parameter c1 to obtain communication reliability under doubly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Ping Wang , Zulin Wang , Yuanfang Ma , Xiaosi Tian , Yuanhan Ni

A communication protocol based on a Gaussian modulation of squeezed states in a single quadrature and measured via homodyne detection can completely eliminate information leakage to an eavesdropper in a pure-loss channel. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Matthew S. Winnel , Nedasadat Hosseinidehaj , Timothy C. Ralph

For autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) secure communications, traditional designs based on fixed position antenna (FPA) lack sufficient spatial degrees of freedom (DoF), which leaves the line-of-sight-dominated AAV links vulnerable to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Yingjie Wu , Junshan Luo , Weiyu Chen , Shilian Wang , Fanggang Wang , Haiyang Ding

This work investigates the possibility of using non-orthogonal multi-carrier waveforms to defend against eavesdropping attacks. The sophisticated detection required for non-orthogonal signals provides a natural defence mechanism in secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Tongyang Xu