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Spatial modulation (SM) is an innovative and promising digital modulation technology that strikes an appealing trade-off between spectral efficiency and energy efficiency with a simple design philosophy. SM enjoys plenty of benefits and…

This paper investigates the impact of practical features of the emerging antenna array technology of Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) when used for wideband sensing. By adopting a realistic DMA response model capturing frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Ioannis Gavras , George C. Alexandropoulos

Exchange of crucial and confidential information leads to the unprecedented attention on the security problem in wireless networks. Though the security has been studied in a number of works, the joint optimization of the physical layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Yi Zhong , Xiaohu Ge , Tao Han , Qiang Li , Jing Zhang

This paper investigates the potential of movable antenna (MA)-enabled micro-mobility to replace UAV-enabled macro-mobility for enhancing physical layer security (PLS) in air-to-ground communications. While UAV trajectory optimization offers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Kaixuan Li , Kan Yu , Dingyou Ma , Yujia Zhao , Xiaowu Liu , Qixun Zhang , ZHiyong Feng

Manipulation of wave-matter interactions in systems with loss and gain have opened new mechanisms to control wave propagation at will. Metamaterials and metasurfaces having spatially inhomogeneous loss and gain have been studied in the past…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-03 Victor Pacheco-Peña , Nader Engheta

We propose the new technique of physical-layer cryptography based on using a massive MIMO channel as a key between the sender and desired receiver, which need not be secret. The goal is for low-complexity encoding and decoding by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Thomas Dean , Andrea Goldsmith

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are integrated circuits that implement reconfigurable hardware. They are used in modern systems, creating specialized, highly-optimized integrated circuits without the need to design and manufacture…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Ilias Giechaskiel , Kasper B. Rasmussen , Ken Eguro

In the quest to realize analog signal processing using sub-wavelength metasurfaces, in this paper, we demonstrate the first experimental demonstration of programmable time-modulated metasurface processors based on the key properties of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Hamid Rajabalipanah , Ali Abdolali , Shahid Iqbal , Lei Zhang , Tie Jun Cui

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs), surfaces patterned with reconfigurable metamaterial elements (meta-atoms) that couple waves from waveguides or cavities to free space, are a promising technology to realize 6G wireless base stations and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Hugo Prod'homme , Philipp del Hougne

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

We present for the first time an experimental demonstration on the energy allocation of commodity Wi-Fi signals in a programmable and inexpensive way. To that end, we design an electronically-programmable phase-binary coding metasurface,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Ya Shuang , Hanting Zhao , Menglin Wei , Haoyang Li , Lianlin Li

In the forthcoming era of 6G, the mmWave communication is envisioned to be used in dense user scenarios with high bandwidth requirements, that necessitate efficient and accurate beam prediction. Machine learning (ML) based approaches are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ghanta Sai Krishna , Kundrapu Supriya , Sanskar Singh , Sabur Baidya

Passive millimeter-wave (PMMW) is a significant potential technique for human security screening. Several popular object detection networks have been used for PMMW images. However, restricted by the low resolution and high noise of PMMW…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Cheng Guo , Fei Hu , Yan Hu

Huge overhead of beam training imposes a significant challenge in millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless communications. To address this issue, in this paper, we propose a wide beam based training approach to calibrate the narrow beam direction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Ke Ma , Dongxuan He , Hancun Sun , Zhaocheng Wang , Sheng Chen

Machine Learning (ML) has been instrumental in enabling joint transceiver optimization by merging all physical layer blocks of the end-to-end wireless communication systems. Although there have been a number of adversarial attacks on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jung-Woo Chang , Ke Sun , Nasimeh Heydaribeni , Seira Hidano , Xinyu Zhang , Farinaz Koushanfar

The security of wireless challenge-response Physical Layer Authentication (PLA) based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) relies on a sufficiently random fading channel condition, which is commonly assumed in existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haiyun Liu , Shangqing Zhao , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs) are being successfully used for the monitoring of large-scale systems that are delay-tolerant and which have low-bandwidth requirements. The next step would be instrumenting these for the control of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Laksh Bhatia , Ivana Tomic , Julie A. McCann

Due to the ultra-dense constellation, efficient beam coverage and interference mitigation are crucial to low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems, while the conventional directional antennas and fixed-position antenna (FPA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Lipeng Zhu , Xiangyu Pi , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

Ambitions for the next generation of wireless communication include high data rates, low latency, ubiquitous access, ensuring sustainability (in terms of consumption of energy and natural resources), all while maintaining a reasonable level…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Maryam Rezvani , Raviraj Adve , Akram bin Sediq , Amr El-Keyi

Although wireless communications in complex environments, such as underground, underwater, and indoor, can enable a large number of novel applications, their performances are constrained by lossy media and complicated structures. Magnetic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-07-13 Hongzhi Guo , Zhi Sun , Chi Zhou