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Advancements toward 6G have intensified demands for ultra-reliable low-latency communication, positioning shortpacket communications as a critical technology for autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) networks. However, the open broadcast nature…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Huiling Liu , Junshan Luo , Shilian Wang , Fanggang Wang , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Symeon Chatzinotas

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) have been envisioned as two promising technologies due to their high transmission reliability as well as energy-efficiency. This paper investigates the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yingjie Pei , Xinwei Yue , Chongwen Huang , Zhiping Lu

The potential of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) for energy-efficient and performance-boosted wireless communications is recently gaining remarkable research attention, motivating their consideration for various $5$-th Generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Miaowen Wen , Daniel B. da Costa

Although reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can improve the secrecy communication performance of wireless users, it still faces challenges such as limited coverage and double-fading effect. To address these issues, in this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yingjie Pei , Wanli Ni , Jin Xu , Xinwei Yue , Xiaofeng Tao , Dusit Niyato

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have several prominent advantages, including improving the level of wireless communication security and privacy. In this work, we focus on the latter aspect and introduce a strategy to counteract the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Francesco Malandrino , Alessandro Nordio , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Integrated communication and sensing, which can make full use of the limited spectrum resources to perform communication and sensing tasks simultaneously, is an up-and-coming technology in wireless communication networks. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hongjiang Lei , Congke Jiang , Ki-Hong Park , Mohamed A. Aboulhassan , Sen Zhou , Gaofeng Pan

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communications have drawn significant attention recently. We study the physical layer security of the downlink RIS-aided transmission framework for randomly located users in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Qiang Sun , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Despite the enhanced spectral efficiency brought by the integrated radar and communication technique, it poses significant risks to communication security when confronted with malicious radar targets. To address this issue, a reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Tong-Xing Zheng , Xin Chen , Lan Lan , Ying Ju , Xiaoyan Hu , Rongke Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Tiejun Cui

This paper investigates the secure communication capabilities of a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network supported by a STAR-RIS (simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface) deployed on an unmanned…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Aseel Qsibat , Habiba Akhleifa , Abdelhamid Salem , Khaled Rabie , Xingwang Li , Thokozani Shongwe , Mohamad A. Alawad , Yazeed Alkhrijah

The appearance of sixth-generation networks has resulted in the proposal of several solutions to tackle signal loss. One of these solutions is the utilization of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), which can reflect or refract…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Md. Mijanur Rahman , A. S. M. Badrudduza , Noor Ahmad Sarker , Md. Ibrahim , Imran Shafique Ansari

Thanks to the line-of-sight (LoS) transmission and flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) effectively improve the throughput of wireless networks. Nevertheless, the LoS links are prone to severe deterioration by complex propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sixian Li , Bin Duo , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang , Marco Di Renzo

The effective integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future wireless communication systems depends on the conscious use of their limited energy, which constrains their flight time. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Dimitrios Tyrovolas , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , George K. Karagiannidis

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely employed to enhance the end-to-end performance of wireless communications since the links between UAVs and terrestrial nodes are line-of-sight (LoS) with high probability. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Hongjiang Lei , Haosi Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Imran Shafique Ansari , Jing Jiang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Since Internet of Things (IoT) is suggested as the fundamental platform to adapt massive connections and secure transmission, we study physical-layer authentication in the point-to-point wireless systems relying on reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-30 Dinh-Thuan Do , Anh-Tu Le , Shahid Mumtaz

This study examines the secrecy performance of an uplink device-to-device (D2D) communication system enhanced by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) while considering the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. RIS technology is employed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Maryam Asadi Ahmadabadi , Farimehr Zohari , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

The high configurability and low cost of Reflective Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) made them a promising solution for enhancing the capabilities of Beyond Fifth-Generation (B5G) networks. Recent works proposed to mount RISs on Unmanned Aerial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Alessandro Brighente , Mauro Conti , Hanan Idriss , Stefano Tomasin

With the explosive advancement of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the security of efficient UAV networks has become increasingly critical. Owing to the open nature of its communication environment, illegitimate malicious UAVs (MUs) can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Ziqi Chen , Jun Du , Chunxiao Jiang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Zhu Han

In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security capabilities of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) empowered wireless systems. In more detail, we consider a general system model, in which the links between the transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Alexandros--Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Angeliki Alexiou , Angelos Michalas

Employing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is emerging as a game-changer candidate, thanks to their unique capabilities in improving the power efficiency and supporting the ubiquity of future wireless communication systems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Abdullateef Almohamad , Ayman Al-Kababji , Anas Tahir , Tamer Khattab , Mazen Hasna

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are employed to enhance the physical layer security in a challenging radio environment. In particular, a multi-antenna access point (AP) has to serve multiple single-antenna legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Ying Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober