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Deep learning based semantic communication(DLSC) systems have shown great potential of making wireless networks significantly more efficient by only transmitting the semantics of the data. However, the open nature of wireless channel and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Qi Qin , Yankai Rong , Guoshun Nan , Shaokang Wu , Xuefei Zhang , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao

In wireless communication, accurate channel state information (CSI) is of pivotal importance. In practice, due to processing and feedback delays, estimated CSI can be outdated, which can severely deteriorate the performance of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Muhammad Karam Shehzad , Luca Rose , Mohamad Assaad

In this work we explore the security of secret keys generated via the electromagnetic reciprocity of the wireless fading channel. Identifying a new sophisticated colluding attack, we explore the information-theoretic-security for such keys…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Robert Malaney

Various approaches in the field of physical layer security involve anomaly detection, such as physical layer authentication, sensing attacks, and anti-tampering solutions. Depending on the context in which these approaches are applied,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems offer significant potential to enhance wireless communication performance, yet accurate and timely channel state information (CSI) acquisition remains a key challenge. Existing works on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Yuanshuai Zheng , Junting Chen

The bloom of the fifth generation (5G) communication and beyond serves as a catalyst for physical layer key generation techniques. In 5G communications systems, many challenges in traditional physical layer key generation schemes, such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Long Jiao , Ning Wang , Pu Wang , Amir Alipour-Fanid , Jie Tang , Kai Zeng

It is well known that physical-layer Group Secret-Key (GSK) generation techniques allow multiple nodes of a wireless network to synthesize a common secret-key, which can be subsequently used to keep their group messages confidential. As one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-06 J. Harshan , Rohit Joshi , Manish Rao

Recently channel state information (CSI) measurements from commercial multi input multi output (MIMO) WiFi systems have been ubiquitously used for different wireless sensing applications. However, the phase of the CSI realizations is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Chu Li , Jeremy Brauer , Aydin Sezgin , Christian Zenger

Physical layer security is an emerging technique to improve the wireless communication security, which is widely regarded as a complement to cryptographic technologies. To design physical layer security techniques under practical scenarios,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou , Thushara D. Abhayapala

It is well-known that wireless channel reciprocity together with fading can be exploited to generate a common secret key between two legitimate communication partners. This can be achieved by exchanging known deterministic pilot signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Rick Fritschek , Gerhard Wunder

A shared secret key is necessary for encrypted communications. Since Wi-Fi relies on OFDM, we suggest a method to generate such a key by utilizing Wi-Fi's channel state information (CSI). CSI is typically reciprocal but very sensitive to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Tomer Avrahami , Ofer Amrani , Avishai Wool

For a wireless sensor network (WSN) with a large number of low-cost, battery-driven, multiple transmission power leveled sensor nodes of limited transmission bandwidth, then conservation of transmission resources (power and bandwidth) is of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-03-17 Gang Wang , Jie Chen , Jian Sun , Yongjian Cai

Device-independent quantum key distribution provides security even when the equipment used to communicate over the quantum channel is largely uncharacterized. An experimental demonstration of device-independent quantum key distribution is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 M. Ho , P. Sekatski , E. Y. -Z. Tan , R. Renner , J. -D. Bancal , N. Sangouard

We study covert communication and covert secret key generation with positive rates over quantum state-dependent channels. Specifically, we consider fully quantum state-dependent channels when the transmitter shares an entangled state with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Hassan ZivariFard , Rémi A. Chou , Xiaodong Wang

As a promising physical layer security technique, physical layer key generation (PLKG) enables legitimate users to obtain secret keys from wireless channel without security infrastructures. However, in harsh propagation environments, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Jiacheng Guo , Ning Gao , Yiping Zuo , Hao Xu , Shi Jin , Kai Kit Wong

Two legitimate parties, referred to as Alice and Bob, wish to generate secret keys from the wireless channel in the presence of an eavesdropper, referred to as Eve, in order to use such keys for encryption and decryption. In general, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Nasser Aldaghri , Hessam Mahdavifar

We present LatentCSI, a novel method for generating images of the physical environment from WiFi CSI measurements that leverages a pretrained latent diffusion model (LDM). Unlike prior approaches that rely on complex and computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Eshan Ramesh , Takayuki Nishio

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) enables a dealer to securely distribute keys to multiple players. Device-independent (DI) QSS can resist all possible attacks from practical imperfect devices and provide QSS the highest level of security in…

Physical-layer key generation (PKG) in multi-user massive MIMO networks faces great challenges due to the large length of pilots and the high dimension of channel matrix. To tackle these problems, we propose a novel massive MIMO key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 You Chen , Guyue Li , Chen Sun , Junqing Zhang , Eduard Jorswieck , Bin Xiao

Traditional physical layer secure beamforming is achieved via precoding before signal transmission using channel state information (CSI). However, imperfect CSI will compromise the performance with imperfect beamforming and potential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Tongyang Xu , Zhongxiang Wei , Tianhua Xu , Gan Zheng