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This paper investigates the multi-antenna covert communications assisted by a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS). In particular, to shelter the existence of covert communications between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Pengcheng Mu , Wenjie Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang

Programmable metasurfaces and adjustable antennas are promising technologies. The security of a rotatable array system is investigated in this paper. A dual-base-station (BS) architecture is adopted, in which the BSs collaboratively perform…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Maolin Li , Feng Shu , Minghao Chen , Cunhua Pan , Fuhui Zhou , Yongpeng Wu , Liang Yang

The synergy between integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) unlocks novel applications and advanced services for next-generation wireless networks, yet also introduces new security…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Zehra Yigit , Sefa Kayraklik , Ertugrul Basar , Ali Gorcin

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is expected to play a prominent role among emerging technologies in future wireless communications. In particular, a communication radar coexistence system is degraded significantly by mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas

In this paper, we investigate the potential of employing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. In particular, we consider an RIS-assisted ISAC system in which a multi-antenna base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Rang Liu , Ming Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Unlike the conventional fully-passive and fully-active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), a hybrid RIS consisting of active and passive reflection units has recently been concerned, which can exploit their integrated advantages to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-27 Yu Yao , Junhao Zhang , Pu Miao , Long Zhang , Gaojie Chen , Feng Shu , Kai-Kit Wong

In this letter, we investigate the secrecy rate of an reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) system with hardware limitations. Compared to the RIS-aided systems in most existing works, we consider the case…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-04 Yue Xiu , Jun Zhao , Zhongpei Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has drawn considerable attention from the research society recently, which creates favorable propagation conditions by controlling the phase shifts of the reflected waves at the surface, thereby…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Yonghui Li , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we study resource allocation design for secure communication in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) communication systems. To enhance physical layer security, artificial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Yan Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are promising and relatively low-cost tools for improving signal propagation in wireless communications. An RIS assists a base station in optimizing the channel and maximizing its capacity by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Andrey Sayanskiy , Andrey Belov , Ruslan Yafasov , Andrey Lyulyakin , Alexander Sherstobitov , Stanislav Glybovski , Vladimir Lyashev

With growing security threats to the evolving wireless systems, protecting user privacy becomes progressively challenging. Even if the transmitted information is encrypted and the potential wiretap channel is physically limited (e.g.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Xiao Lu , Ekram Hossain , Tania Shafique , Shaohan Feng , Hai Jiang , Dusit Niyato

Simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RIS) offer a transformative approach for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, particularly for enhancing physical layer security (PLS). This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Rakesh Ranjan , Anshu Mukherjee , Manjesh K. Hanawal , Keshav Singh , Ioannis Krikidis

We investigate transmission optimization for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-antenna systems from the physical-layer security perspective. The design goal is to maximize the system secrecy rate subject to the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Shulei Gong , Zhenyao He , Chunming Zhao

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

This paper investigates the security enhancement of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network, where a distributed IRS enabled NOMA transmission framework is proposed to serve users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Zheng Zhang , Jian Chen , Qingqing Wu , Yuanwei Liu , Lu Lv , Xunqi Su

Reflecting intelligent surfaces (RIS) has gained significant attention due to its high energy and spectral efficiency in next-generation wireless networks. By using low-cost passive reflecting elements, RIS can smartly reconfigure the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Wali Ullah Khan , Eva Lagunas , Asad Mahmood , Zain Ali , Muhammad Asif Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) as an essential topic in the sixth-generation (6G) communications aims to enhance communication performance or mitigate undesired transmission. However, the controllability of each reflecting element…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Jinqiu Zhao , Jia Ye Shuaishuai Guo , Zhiquan Bai , Di Zhou , Abeer Mohamed

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal prorogation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number of low-cost passive reflecting elements, IRS is capable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Qingqing Wu , Shuowen Zhang , Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system, where a ground node (GN) communicate with a UAV assisted by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the presence of a jammer with imperfect location information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhi Ji , Xinrong Guan , Jia Tu , Qingqing Wu , Wendong Yang

In this letter, we investigate whether the use of artificial noise (AN) is helpful to enhance the secrecy rate of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless communication system. Specifically, an IRS is deployed nearby a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Xinrong Guan , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang