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This paper considers unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-carried intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) for secure data collection in wireless sensor networks. An eavesdropper (Eve) lurks within the vicinity of the main receiver (Bob) while several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Christantus O. Nnamani , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Mathini Sellathurai

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely studied in recent years, it has emerged as a new technology which can reflect the incident signal by intelligently configuring the reflection elements, thus changing the signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jintao Luo , Sixing Yin

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

This article proposes a novel strategy for enhancing secure wireless communication through the use of a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) in a multiple-input single-output system. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Zahra Rostamikafaki , Francois Chan , Claude D'Amours

In this letter, we propose to exploit an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to secure multiuser two-way communications. Specifically, two end users simultaneously transmit their signals, where the signal of one user is exploited as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Lu Lv , Qingqing Wu , Zan Li , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Jian Chen

In this paper, the secure performance of multiuser multiple-input single-output wireless communications systems assisted by a multifunctional active intelligent reflection surface (IRS) is investigated. The active IRS can simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Shaokang Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

In this paper, we propose to use a hybrid relay-reflecting intelligent surface (HR-RIS) to enhance the performance of a covert communication system. Specifically, the HR-RIS consists of passive reflecting elements and active relay elements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jinsong Hu , Xiaoqiang Shi , Youjia Chen , Tiesong Zhao , Feng Shu

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical layer security has always been a fundamental but challenging problem. Recent advance of Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) introduces a new dimension for secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Jian Li , Lan Zhang , Kaiping Xue , Yuguang Fang

Recent considerations for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) assume that RISs can convey information by reflection without the need of transmit radio frequency chains, which, however, is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Shaoe Lin , Beixiong Zheng , George C. Alexandropoulos , Miaowen Wen , Marco Di Renzo , Fangjiong Chen

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) enable full-space coverage but also expose wireless transmissions to security from multiple spatial directions. This paper investigates a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Huiyun Xia , Yijie Mao , Sai Xu , Shuai Han , Hongbo Zhu

By moving from massive antennas to antenna surfaces for software-defined wireless systems, the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) rely on arrays of unit cells to control the scattering and reflection profiles of signals, mitigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Brian Kim , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sennur Ulukus

In this paper, we consider a challenging secure wireless sensing scenario where a legitimate radar station (LRS) intends to detect a target at unknown location in the presence of an unauthorized radar station (URS). We aim to enhance the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser full-duplex secure communication system with hardware impairments at transceivers and RIS, where multiple eavesdroppers overhear the two-way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Zhangjie Peng , Zhibo Zhang , Lei Kong , Cunhua Pan , Li Li , Jiangzhou Wang

In this letter, we analyze the secrecy performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication system with spatially random unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as eavesdroppers. We consider the scenarios where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Lai Wei , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan

This study investigates the anti-jamming space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) scenario wherein a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is deployed on a fixed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to counteract malevolent jamming attacks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Leila Marandi , Khaled Humadi , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Wessam Ajib , Wei-Ping Zhu

In this paper, we study an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless secure communication system for physical layer security, where an IRS is deployed to adjust its surface reflecting elements to guarantee secure communication of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Liang Xiao , Qingqing Wu

We propose a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wiretap channel, where the RIS is strategically deployed to provide a spatial separation to the transmitter, and orthogonal combiners are employed at the legitimate receiver to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Xudong Li , Matthias Frey , Ehsan Tohidi , Igor Bjelaković , Sławomir Stańczak

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) refers to a signal reflection surface containing a large number of low-cost passive reflecting elements. RIS can improve the performance of radar and communication systems by dynamically modulating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Da Li , Bo Tang , Xuyang Wang , Wenjun Wu , Lei Xue

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

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a promising solution to reconfigure the wireless environment in a controllable way. To compensate for the double-fading attenuation in the RIS-aided link, a large number of passive reflecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ruizhe Long , Ying-Chang Liang , Yiyang Pei , Erik G. Larsson