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This letter investigates the secrecy performance of wireless communication systems assisted by a fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS). Unlike conventional reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) with fixed geometries, FRISs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Francisco Hernando-Gallego , Diego Martín , Kai-Kit Wong , Riku Jäntti

One of the great potentials to improve the confidentiality in mmWave/THz at the physical layer of technical communication, measured by the secrecy rate, lies in the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). However, an important…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Chu Li , Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin

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 Surface (RIS) draws great attentions in academic and industry due to its passive and low power consumption nature, and has currently been used in physical layer security to enhance the secure transmission.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Limeng Dong , Hui-Ming Wang , Jiale Bai

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have several prominent advantages, including improving the level of wireless communications security and privacy. In this work, we focus on this aspect and envision a strategy to counteract the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Francesco Malandrino , Alessandro Nordio , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a new paradigm that enables the reconfiguration of the wireless environment. Based on this feature, RIS can be employed to facilitate Physical-layer Key Generation (PKG). However, this technique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Lei Hu , Guyue Li , Hongyi Luo , Aiqun Hu

Wireless communications empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent (meta)Surfaces (RISs) are recently gaining remarkable research attention due to the increased system design flexibility offered by RISs for diverse functionalities. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos Katsanos , Miaowen Wen , Daniel B. da Costa

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique to enhance the performance of physical-layer key generation (PKG) due to its ability to smartly customize the radio environments. Existing RIS-assisted PKG methods are mainly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Lei Hu , Guyue Li , Xuewen Qian , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Aiqun Hu

Physical layer key generation (PLKG) can significantly enhance the security of classic encryption schemes by enabling them to change their secret keys significantly faster and more efficient. However, due to the reliance of PLKG techniques…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Vahid Shahiri , Hamid Behroozi , Ali Kuhestani

We pay our attention towards secure and robust communication in the presence of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-enhanced mobile eavesdropping attacker in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO)wireless networks.Specifically,we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Gaoyuan Zhang , Ruisong Si , Boyuan Li , Zijian Li , Baofeng Ji , Chenqi Zhu , Tony Q. S. Quek

This work proposes a provably convergent and low complexity optimization algorithm for the maximization of the secrecy energy efficiency in the uplink of a wireless network aided by a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS), in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Robert Kuku Fotock , Alessio Zappone , Marco Di Renzo

Sixth-Generation (6G) wireless networks aim to support innovative Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications that demand faster and more secure data transmission. While higher Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) layers employ measures like…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Dimitris Kompostiotis , Dimitris Vordonis , Vassilis Paliouras , George C. Alexandropoulos

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is one of the promising techniques for 6G wireless communications, and recently has also been shown to be able to improve secure communications. However, there is a "double fading" effect in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Weigang Lv , Jiale Bai , Qingli Yan , Hui-Ming Wang

Physical layer key generation (PLKG) is a promising technology to obtain symmetric keys between a pair of wireless communication users in a plug-and-play manner. The shared entropy source almost entirely comes from the intrinsic randomness…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Ning Gao , Yu Han , Nannan Li , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou

By moving from massive antennas to antenna surfaces for software-defined wireless systems, the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) rely on arrays of unit cells to control the scattering and reflection profiles of signals, mitigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Brian Kim , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sennur Ulukus

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been recognized as a promising technique for the sixth generation (6G) of mobile communication networks. The key feature of RIS is to reconfigure the propagation environment via smart signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Abdelhamid Salem , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae

This work investigates the impact of the ever-present electromagnetic interference (EMI) on the achievable secrecy performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication systems. We characterize the end-to-end RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-17 José David Vega Sánchez , Georges Kaddoum , F. Javier López-Martínez

There have been recently many studies demonstrating that the performance of wireless communication systems can be significantly improved by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which is an attractive technology due to its low power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Samed Keşir , Sefa Kayraklık , İbrahim Hökelek , Ali Emre Pusane , Ertugrul Basar , Ali Görçin

Physical-layer security (PLS) has the potential to strongly enhance the overall system security as an alternative to or in combination with conventional cryptographic primitives usually implemented at higher network layers. Secret-key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 François Rottenberg , Trung-Hien Nguyen , Jean-Michel Dricot , François Horlin , Jérôme Louveaux

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is proposed to enhance the physical layer security in the Rician fading channel where the angular direction of the eavesdropper is aligned with a legitimate user. In this scenario, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Kok Keong Chai , Kai-Kit Wong