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Secret key generation in physical layer security exploits the unpredictable random nature of wireless channels. The millimeter-wave (mmWave) channels have limited multipath and channel randomness in static environments. In this paper, for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Shubo Yang , Han Han , Yihong Liu , Weisi Guo , Zhibo Pang , Lei Zhang

Rotatable intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) introduces a new spatial degree of freedom (DoF) by dynamically adjusting orientations without the need of changing its elements' positions in real time. To unleash the full potential of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Wen Chen , Shaodan Ma , Shanpu Shen , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology to enhance spatial multiplexing in wireless networks. This letter considers the discrete passive beamforming design for IRS in order to maximize the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Wenhai Lai , Zheyu Wu , Yi Feng , Kaiming Shen , Ya-Feng Liu

The spectrum efficiency (SE) and security of the secondary users (SUs) in the cognitive radio networks (CRNs) have become two main issues due to the limitation interference to the primary users (PUs) and the shared spectrum with the PUs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Xuewen Wu , Jingxiao Ma , Zhe Xing , Chenwei Gu , Xiaoping Xue , Xin Zeng

As the superior improvement on wireless network coverage, spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency, Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has received more and more attention. In this work, we consider a large-scale IRS-assisted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Hu Cheng , Hongguang Sun , Linyi Zhang , Jiahui Li , Xijun Wangg , Tony Q. S. Quek

In dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) systems the probing signal contains information intended for the communication users, which makes that information vulnerable to eavesdropping by the targets. We study the security of a DFRC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Yi-Kai Li , Athina Petropulu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology for wireless communication composed of a large number of low-cost passive devices with reconfigurable parameters, which can reflect signals with a certain phase shift and is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Feng Shu , Lili Yang , Yan Wang , Xuehui Wang , Weiping Shi , Chong Shen , Jiangzhou Wang

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

In this paper, we propose a novel encrypted data transmission scheme using an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to generate secret keys in wireless communication networks. We show that perfectly secure one-time pad (OTP) communications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Zijie Ji , Phee Lep Yeoh , Gaojie Chen , Cunhua Pan , Yan Zhang , Zunwen He , Hao Yin , Yonghui Li

This work gives a blind beamforming strategy for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), aiming to boost the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by coordinating phase shifts across reflective elements in the absence of channel information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Shuyi Ren , Kaiming Shen , Yaowen Zhang , Xin Li , Xin Chen , Zhi-Quan Luo

In this work, we propose a secret key generation procedure specifically designed for the inter-spacecraft communication links. As a novel secrecy source, the spacecrafts utilize Doppler frequency shift based measurements. In this way, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Ozan Alp Topal , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have recently received significant attention for 6G wireless communications as they enable the control of the wireless propagation environment. The use of IRS also provides reducing the hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Ahmet M. Elbir , Kumar Vijay Mishra

This letter introduces a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) structure into near-field localization systems to enhance the design flexibility of IRS, thereby obtaining additional performance gains.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Hanfu Zhang , Yidan Mei , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a proposing technology in 6G to enhance the performance of wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the propagation environment with a large number of passive reflecting elements. However, current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Jinglian He , Kaiqiang Yu , Yuanming Shi

Physical layer security (PLS) is seen as the means to enhance physical layer trustworthiness in 6G. This work provides a proof-of-concept for one of the most mature PLS technologies, i.e., secret key generation (SKG) from wireless fading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Amitha Mayya , Miroslav Mitev , Arsenia Chorti , Gerhard Fettweis

In this paper, the feasibility of adopting an intelligent reflective surface (IRS) in a cell-free wireless communication system is studied. The received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for this IRS-enabled cell-free set-up is optimized by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Diluka Loku Galappaththige , Dhanushka Kudathanthirige , Gayan Amarasuriya

Physical-layer group secret-key (GSK) generation is an effective way of generating secret keys in wireless networks, wherein the nodes exploit inherent randomness in the wireless channels to generate group keys, which are subsequently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-16 J. Harshan , Sang-Yoon Chang , Yih-Chun Hu

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered a crucial technology for the future of wireless communication. Recently, there has been significant interest in combining RIS with spatial modulation (SM) or space shift keying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-19 Onur Salan , Ferhat Bayar , Hacı Ilhan , Erdogan Aydin

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs) have potential for significant performance gains in next-generation wireless networks but face key challenges, notably severe double-pathloss and complex multi-user scheduling due to hardware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xintong Chen , Zhenyu Jiang , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu

This paper investigates a novel intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-based symbiotic radio (SR) system architecture consisting of a transmitter, an IRS, and an information receiver (IR). The primary transmitter communicates with the IR and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu , Luxi Yang , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor