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Denial-of-Service (DoS) threats pose a major challenge to the idea of physical-layer key generation as the underlying wireless channels for key extraction are usually public. Identifying this vulnerability, we study the effect of DoS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Rusni Kima Mangang , J. Harshan

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are recognized with great potential to strengthen wireless security, yet the performance gain largely depends on the deployment location of RISs in the network topology. In this paper, we consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Xiao Tang , Hongliang He , Limeng Dong , Lixin Li , Qinghe Du , Zhu Han

We develop a new integrated communications and security (ICAS) design paradigm by leveraging the concept of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). In particular, we propose RIS-assisted simultaneous transmission and secret key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ning Gao , Yuze Yao , Shi Jin , Cen Li , Michail Matthaiou

Physical layer key generation is a promising candidate for cryptographic key establishment between two wireless communication parties. It offers information-theoretic security and is an attractive alternative to public-key techniques. Here,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Paul Staat , Harald Elders-Boll , Markus Heinrichs , Rainer Kronberger , Christian Zenger , Christof Paar

Wireless devices can be easily attacked by jammers during transmission, which is a potential security threat for wireless communications. Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) attracts considerable attention and is expected to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yang Cao , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Wei Zhang

Direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) has been recognized as an effective jamming resilient technique. However, the effectiveness of DSSS relies on the use of either pre-shared unique secret keys or a bank of public codes, which can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Jay Prakash , Chenxi Liu , Jemin Lee , Tony Q. S. Quek

Channel reciprocity greatly facilitates downlink precoding in time-division duplexing (TDD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications without the need for channel state information (CSI) feedback. Recently, reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Wankai Tang , Xiangyu Chen , Ming Zheng Chen , Jun Yan Dai , Yu Han , Shi Jin , Qiang Cheng , Geoffrey Ye Li , Tie Jun Cui

The development of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) has recently advanced the research of physical layer security (PLS). Beneficial impacts of RIS include but are not limited to offering a new degree-of-freedom (DoF) for key-less…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Zhuangkun Wei , Bin Li , Weisi Guo

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can potentially combat jamming attacks by diffusing jamming signals. This paper jointly optimizes user selection, channel allocation, modulation-coding, and RIS configuration in a multiuser OFDMA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Xin Yuan , Shuyan Hu , Wei Ni , Ren Ping Liu , Xin Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology offers significant promise in enhancing wireless communication systems, but its dual-use potential also introduces substantial security risks. This survey explores the security…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Hetong Wang , Tiejun Lv , Yashuai Cao , Weicai Li , Jie Zeng , Pingmu Huang , Muhammad Khurram Khan

With the rapid growth of handheld devices in the internet of things (IoT) networks, mobile applications have become ubiquitous in everyday life. As technology is developed, so do also the risks and threats associated with it, especially in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Guyue Li , Hongyi Luo , Jiabao Yu , Aiqun Hu , Jiangzhou Wang

This article investigates the robustness of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) in multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems to interference attacks against channel acquisition induced by beyond-diagonal RISs (BD-RISs). Two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Arthur S. de Sena , Jacek Kibilda , Nurul H. Mahmood , Andre Gomes , Luiz A. DaSilva , Matti Latva-aho

Cooperative rate splitting (CRS), built upon rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) and opportunistic user relaying, has been recognized as a promising transmission strategy to enhance the user fairness and spectral efficiency in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Kangchun Zhao , Yijie Mao , Zhaohui Yang , Lixiang Lian , Bruno Clerckx

Antifragility is an economics term defined as measure of (monetary) benefits gained from the adverse events and variability of the markets. This paper integrates for the first time the antifragility into the network based on communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Mounir Bensalem , Thomas Röthig , Admela Jukan

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently received widespread attention in the field of wireless communication. An RIS can be controlled to reflect incident waves from the transmitter towards the receiver; a feature that is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Jiangfeng Hu , Haifan Yin , Emil Björnson

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is one of the promising 6G technologies that allows the conversion of the wireless channel into an intelligent transmit entity by manipulating the impinging waves using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 I. Yildirim , A. Uyrus , E. Basar

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a recent low-cost and energy-efficient technology with potential applicability for future wireless communications. Performance gains achieved by employing RIS directly depend on accurate channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Paulo R. B. Gomes , Amarilton L. Magalhães , André L. F. de Almeida

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communications is on the rise and is a promising technology envisioned to aid in 6G and beyond wireless communication networks. RISs can manipulate impinging waves through their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Emre Arslan , Ibrahim Yildirim , Fatih Kilinc , Ertugrul Basar

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) assisted physical layer key generation has shown great potential to secure wireless communications by smartly controlling signals such as phase and amplitude. However, previous studies mainly focus…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Ningya Xu , Guoshun Nan , Xiaofeng Tao

Due to the open communications environment in wireless channels, wireless networks are vulnerable to jamming attacks. However, existing approaches for jamming rely on knowledge of the legitimate users' (LUs') channels, extra jamming power,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Huan Huang , Ying Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Yi Cai , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Zhu Han