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Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) schemes typically allocate all available resources to retransmit failed packets to ensure reliability. However, under stringent delay constraints, these schemes often exhibit low spectral efficiency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Hongling Huang , Jintao Wang , Zheng Shi , Xu Wang , Guanghua Yang , Shaodan Ma , Haichuan Ding

This paper studies the problem of secure communication over a K-transmitter multiple access channel in the presence of an external eavesdropper, subject to a joint secrecy constraint (i.e., information leakage rate from the collection of K…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Yanling Chen , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , A. J. Han Vinck

Terahertz (THz) band communications are envisioned as a key technology for 6G and Beyond. As a fundamental wireless infrastructure, THz communication can boost abundant promising applications. In 2014, our team published two comprehensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Ian F. Akyildiz , Chong Han , Zhifeng Hu , Shuai Nie , Josep M. Jornet

This paper investigates a novel unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) secure communication system with the assistance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where an UAV and a ground user communicate with each other, while an eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Li Sixian , Duo Bin , Marco Di Renzo , Tao Meixia , Yuan Xiaojun

Wireless communication is susceptible to adversarial eavesdropping due to the broadcast nature of the wireless medium. In this paper it is shown how eavesdropping can be alleviated by exploiting the superposition property of the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

This letter concerns the power allocation across the multiple transmission rounds under the Incremental Redundancy Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (IR-HARQ) policy, in pursuit of an energy-efficient way of fulfilling the outage probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Wenyu Wang , Minhao Zhu , Kaiming Shen , Zhaorui Wang , Shuguang Cui

The terahertz (THz) frequency band (0.3-10THz) has the advantage of large available bandwidth and is a candidate to satisfy the ever increasing mobile traffic in wireless communications. However, the THz channels are often absorbed by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Cao Vien Phung , Anna Engelmann , Admela Jukan

Energy efficiency of three common hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) schemes including Type I HARQ, HARQ with chase combining (HARQ-CC) and HARQ with incremental redundancy (HARQ-IR), is analyzed and joint power allocation and rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Zheng Shi , Shaodan Ma , Guanghua Yang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper considers simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink system consisting of one multi-antenna transmitter, one single-antenna information receiver (IR), multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Kai-Kit Wong , Yangyang Zhang , Zhongbin Zheng

Terahertz (THz) communication ensures the provision of ultra-high data rates owing to its abundant bandwidth; however, its performance is impeded by complex propagation mechanisms. In particular, molecular absorption induces a temporal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Ahmed Naeem , Saira Rafique , Abuu B. Kihero , Huseyin Arslan

We analyze the secrecy outage probability in the downlink for wireless networks with spatially (Poisson) distributed eavesdroppers (EDs) under the assumption that the base station employs transmit antenna selection (TAS) to enhance secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Gaojie Chen , Justin P. Coon , Marco Di Renzo

We consider multiple access with re-transmission diversity (RTxD) based on a hybrid automatic request (HARQ) protocol with incremental redundancy (IR) in this paper. In order to mitigate multiple access interference (MAI), we employ…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Jinho Choi

The operation of Terahertz (THz) communication can be significantly impacted by the interaction between the transmitted wave and the molecules in the atmosphere. In particular, it has been observed experimentally that the signal undergoes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Anish Pradhan , J. Kartheek Devineni , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Andreas F. Molisch

This paper studies the secrecy rate maximization problem of a secure wireless communication system, in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. The security of the communication link is enhanced through cooperative jamming, with the help of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Kanapathippillai Cumanan , George C. Alexandropoulos , Zhgiuo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

The scarcity of spectrum resources in current wireless communication systems has sparked enormous research interest in the terahertz (THz) frequency band. This band is characterized by fundamentally different propagation properties…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Akram Shafie , Nan Yang , Zhuo Sun , Salman Durrani

The existing relay-assisted terahertz (THz) wireless system is limited to dual-hop transmission with pointing errors and short-term fading without considering the shadowing effect. This paper analyzes the performance of a multihop-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Pranay Bhardwaj , S. M. Zafaruddin

Terahertz (THz) communications have emerged as a promising technology for 6G networks due to their potential for achieving terabit-per-second data rates. However, the impact of rainfall on THz channel characteristics remains incompletely…

THz transmissions suffer from pointing errors due to antenna misalignment and incur higher path loss from the molecular absorption in addition to the channel fading. In this paper, we employ an amplify-and-forward (AF) dual-hop relaying to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Vinay U. Pai , Pranay Bhardwaj , S. M. Zafaruddin

In this paper, we propose a cooperative approach to improve the security of both primary and secondary systems in cognitive radio multicast communications. During their access to the frequency spectrum licensed to the primary users, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong , Oh-Soon Shin , Arumugam Nallanathan , George K. Karagiannidis

The sixth generation (6G) wireless networks aim to achieve ultra-high data transmission rates, very low latency and enhanced energy-efficiency. To this end, terahertz (THz) band is one of the key enablers of 6G to meet such requirements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Ahmet M. Elbir , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Symeon Chatzinotas , Mehdi Bennis