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This paper considers secrecy enhancement mechanisms in visible light communication (VLC) systems with spatially distributed passive eavesdroppers (EDs) under the assumption that there are multiple LED transmitters and one legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Sunghwan Cho , Gaojie Chen , Justin P. Coon

Extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays) have emerged as a key enabler in achieving the unprecedented performance requirements of future wireless networks, leading to a significant increase in the range of the near-field region. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Yunpu Zhang , Yuan Fang , Changsheng You , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Hing Cheung So

The additional degree of freedom (DoF) in the distance domain of near-field communication offers new opportunities for physical layer security (PLS) design. However, existing works mainly consider static eavesdroppers, and the related study…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Yiming Xu , Mingxuan Zheng , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song , Daniel Benevides da Costa

A downlink single-input single-output non-orthogonal multiple access setting is considered, in which a base station (BS) is communicating with two legitimate users in two possible scenarios of unsecure environments: existence of an external…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Ahmed Arafa , Wonjae Shin , Mojtaba Vaezi , H. Vincent Poor

This paper studies an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS)-aided near-field physical layer security (PLS) communication system, aiming to maximize the secrecy rate by jointly optimizing precoding vector at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiaotong Xu , Qian Zhang , Yunxiao Li , Xuejun Cheng , Meihui Liu , Ju Liu

Terahertz (THz) communications have naturally promising physical layer security (PLS) performance in the angular domain due to the high directivity feature brought by the ultra-massive multiple-antenna techniques. However, traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Weijun Gao , Xuyang Lu , Chong Han , Zhi Chen

This thesis focuses on the wireless security in the physical layer with beamforming technique. One of the emerging areas is the security enhancement in the physical layer, which exploits the intrinsic properties of the wireless medium.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Yuanrui Zhang

The integration of sensing and communication enables wireless communication systems to serve environment-aware applications. In this paper, we propose to leverage sensing to enhance physical layer security (PLS) in multiuser communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Dongfang Xu , Yiming Xu , Zhiqiang Wei , Shenghui Song , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

A pioneering secure transmission scheme is proposed, which harnesses movable antennas (MAs) to optimize antenna positions for augmenting the physical layer security. Particularly, an MA-enabled secure wireless system is considered, where a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Xiaoming She , Chongjun Ouyang , Peng Chen

In this paper, we study multibeam satellite secure communication through physical (PHY) layer security techniques, i.e., joint power control and beamforming. By first assuming that the Channel State Information (CSI) is available and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jiang Lei , Zhu Han , M. A. Vázquez-Castro , Are Hjørungnes

The interplay between large antenna apertures and high frequencies in future generations of wireless networks will give rise to near-field communications. In this paper, we focus on the hybrid analog and digital beamforming architecture of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

A two-phase beamforming solution for secure communication using untrusted relay nodes is presented. To thwart eavesdropping attempts of relay nodes, we deliberately introduce artificial noise in the source message. After pointing out the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Siddhartha Sarma

The multi-UAV network is promising to extend conventional networks by providing broader coverage and better reliability. Nevertheless, the broadcast nature of wireless signals and the broader coverage expose multi-UAV communications to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Mengnian Xu , Yanjiao Chen , Wei Wang

This letter considers a fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided secure and covert communication system, where the transmitter adjusts multiple fluid antennas' positions to achieve secure and covert transmission under the threat of an eavesdropper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Junteng Yao , Liangxiao Xin , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Kai-Kit Wong , Chau Yuen , Hyundong Shin

This paper considers transmit beamforming in dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) system, where a DFRC transmitter simultaneously communicates with a communication user and detects a malicious target with the same waveform. Since the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-24 Rong Wen , Ying Zhang , Qiang Li , Youxi Tang

We propose a new location-based beamforming (LBB) scheme for wiretap channels, where a multi-antenna source communicates with a single-antenna legitimate receiver in the presence of a multi-antenna eavesdropper. We assume that all channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Chenxi Liu , Robert Malaney

This paper considers secure communication in buffer-aided cooperative wireless networks in the presence of one eavesdropper, which can intercept the data transmission from both the source and relay nodes. A new max-ratio relaying protocol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Jiayu Zhou , Deli Qiao , Haifeng Qian

In this paper, we investigate secure and reliable transmission strategies for multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a multi-antenna active eavesdropper. We consider a time-division duplex system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Yongpeng Wu , Robert Schober , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chengshan Xiao , Giuseppe Caire

A visible light communication broadcast channel is considered, in which a transmitter luminaire communicates with two legitimate receivers in the presence of an external eavesdropper. A number of trusted cooperative half-duplex relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Ahmed Arafa , Erdal Panayirci , H. Vincent Poor

An information-theoretic confidential communication is achievable if the eavesdropper has a degraded channel compared to the legitimate receiver. In wireless channels, beamforming and artificial noise can enable such confidentiality.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin