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Satellite communications emerged as a promising extension to terrestrial networks in future 6G network research due to their extensive coverage in remote areas and ability to support the increasing traffic rate and heterogeneous networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Nora Abdelsalam , Saif Al-Kuwari , Aiman Erbad

Physical layer security (PLS) is critically important for emerging wireless communication networks to maintain the confidentiality of the information of legitimate users. In this paper, we investigate enhancing PLS in an unmanned aerial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Nadisanka Rupasinghe , Yavuz Yapici , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

In the scope of VANETs, nature of exchanged safety/warning messages renders itself highly location dependent as it is usually for incident reporting. Thus, vehicles are required to periodically exchange beacon messages that include speed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Amr Abdelaziz , Ron Burton , C. Emre Koksal

Precise positioning is a key enabler for emerging 5G applications, from autonomous transport to industrial automation. Yet the open physical layer (PL) leaves standard positioning reference signals (PRSs) vulnerable to manipulation. This…

With the rapid advancement of 6G, identity authentication has become increasingly critical for ensuring wireless security. The lightweight and keyless Physical Layer Authentication (PLA) is regarded as an instrumental security measure in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Xiqi Cheng , Rui Meng , Xiaodong Xu , Haixiao Gao , Ping Zhang , Dusit Niyato

For a physical layer message authentication procedure based on the comparison of channel estimates obtained from the received messages, we focus on an outer bound on the type I/II error probability region. Channel estimates are modelled as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Augusto Ferrante , Nicola Laurenti , Chiara Masiero , Michele Pavon , Stefano Tomasin

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

Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) has been recognized as one of the most significant enabling technologies for future wireless systems due to its eminent spectral efficiency, ability to provide an additional degree of freedom for Ultra…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Haji M. Furqan , Jehad. M. Hamamreh , Huseyin Arslan

Underwater monitoring and surveillance systems are essential for underwater target detection, localization and classification. The aim of this work is to investigate the possibility of target detection by using data transmission between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Lu Shen , Yuriy Zakharov , Benjamin Henson , Nils Morozs , Benoît Parrein , Paul D. Mitchell

The design of robust wireless communication systems for industrial applications such as closed loop control processes has been considered manifold recently. Additionally, the ongoing advances in the area of connected mobility have similar…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Andreas Weinand , Michael Karrenbauer , Raja Sattiraju , Hans D. Schotten

This paper presents a comprehensive physical layer security (PLS) framework for fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided short-packet communications under the variable block-correlation model (VBCM). We consider a downlink wiretap scenario in which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jianchao Zheng , Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Baiyang Liu , Runyu Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Kin-Fai Tong , Sumei Sun

Efficient localization in underwater sensor networks faces challenges due to limited bandwidth, energy constraints, and hardware complexity. Traditional systems separate sensing and communication, often resulting in inefficient resource…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Ashwani Koul , Gustaf Hendeby , Isaac Skog

The Internet of Things (IoT) is ubiquitous thanks to the rapid development of wireless technologies. However, the broadcast nature of wireless transmissions results in great vulnerability to device authentication. Physical layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yijia Guo , Junqing Zhang , Y. -W. Peter Hong

The intrinsic integration of the nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) techniques is envisioned to be a promising approach to significantly improve both the spectrum efficiency and energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhe Zhang , Chensi Zhang , Chengjun Jiang , Fan Jia , Jianhua Ge , Fengkui Gong

The robustness of angle of arrival (AoA) as a physical layer authentication (PLA) feature under spoofing attacks is studied, assuming a digital uniform linear array verifier. The verifier estimates the AoA assuming a legitimate user's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Sotiris Skaperas , Arsenia Chorti

Physical layer security (PLS) technology based on the fixed-position antenna (FPA) has {attracted widespread attention}. Due to the fixed feature of the antennas, current FPA-based PLS schemes cannot fully utilize the spatial degree of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhiyong Feng , Yujia Zhao , Kan Yu , Dong Li

This paper presents a novel method for synthesizing new physical layer modulation and coding schemes for communications systems using a learning-based approach which does not require an analytic model of the impairments in the channel. It…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-09 Timothy J. O'Shea , Tamoghna Roy , Nathan West , Benjamin C. Hilburn

This paper investigates physical layer security (PLS) in a movable antenna (MA)-assisted full-duplex (FD) system. In this system, an FD base station (BS) with multiple MAs for transmission and reception provides services for an uplink (UL)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Chenbo Wang , Wenyao Li , Lifeng Lin , Bingli Jiao

Remote and resource-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) deployments often lack terrestrial connectivity for task offloading, motivating non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) with onboard multiaccess edge computing (MEC) capabilities.…

Tag-based Physical-Layer Authentication (PLA) has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its low complexity, high security, and low latency. Traditional tag-based PLA schemes typically estimate tags by decoding the message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Lei Yao , Boxiang He , Shilian Wang , Enyu Shi , Chau Yuen