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A visible light communication broadcast channel is considered, in which a transmitter luminaire communicates with two legitimate receivers in the presence of an external eavesdropper. A number of trusted cooperative half-duplex relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Ahmed Arafa , Erdal Panayirci , H. Vincent Poor

In this work, a directional modulation-based technique is devised to enhance the security of a multi-antenna wireless communication system employing M-PSK modulation to convey information. The directional modulation method operates by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Ashkan Kalantari , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Sina Maleki , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

In this paper we consider the secure transmission in fast Rayleigh fading channels with full knowledge of the main channel and only the statistics of the eavesdropper's channel state information at the transmitter. For the multiple-input,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Pin-Hsun Lin , Szu-Hsiang Lai , Shih-Chun Lin , Hsuan-Jung Su

Reliable and secure communication is an important aspect of modern fiber optic communication. In this work we consider a multi-mode fiber (MMF) channel wiretapped by an eavesdropper. We assume the transmitter knows the legitimate channel,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Eduard Jorswieck , Andrew Lonnstrom , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Stefan Rothe , Juergen W. Czarske

In massive MIMO wiretap settings, the base station can significantly suppress eavesdroppers by narrow beamforming toward legitimate terminals. Numerical investigations show that by this approach, secrecy is obtained at no significant cost.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Ralf R. Müller , Rafael F. Schaefer , Amir M. Rabiei

Surveillance performance is studied for a wireless eavesdropping system, where a full-duplex legitimate monitor eavesdrops a suspicious link efficiently with the artificial noise (AN) assistance. Different from the existing work in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Zihao Cheng , Jiangbo Si , Zan Li , Danyang Wang , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are highly efficient. Massive MIMO systems are inherently resistant to passive attackers (eavesdroppers), thanks to transmissions directed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Marziyeh Soltani , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Panos Papadimitratos

This paper advances the proactive eavesdropping research by considering a practical half-duplex mode for the legitimate monitor and dealing with the challenging case that the suspicious link opportunistically communicates over parallel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Yitao Han , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

Optical fiber networks are part of important critical infrastructure and known to be prone to eavesdropping attacks. Hence cryptographic methods have to be used to protect communication. Quantum key distribution (QKD), at its core, offers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Alexandra Popp , Florian Sedlmeir , Birgit Stiller , Christoph Marquardt

Near-field beamfocusing with extremely large aperture arrays can effectively enhance physical layer security. Nevertheless, even small estimation errors of the eavesdropper's location may cause a pronounced focal shift, resulting in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shicong Liu , Xianghao Yu , Robert Schober

Beamforming is a signal processing technique. It has been studied in many areas such as radar, sonar, seismology and wireless communications, to name but a few. It can be used for a myriad of purposes, such as detecting the presence of a…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Hidri Adel , Meddeb Souad , Abdulqadir Alaqeeli , Amiri Hamid

Directional modulation (DM), as an efficient secure transmission way, offers security through its directive property and is suitable for line-of-propagation (LoP) channels such as millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Feng Shu , Yaolu Qin , Riqing Chen , Ling Xu , Tong Shen , Siming Wan , Shi Jin , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You

A two-phase beamforming solution for secure communication using untrusted relay nodes is presented. To thwart eavesdropping attempts of relay nodes, we deliberately introduce artificial noise in the source message. After pointing out the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Siddhartha Sarma

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has recently been considered as a promising approach to save spectrum resources and reduce hardware cost. Meanwhile, as information security becomes increasingly more critical issue, government…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-15 Mianyi Zhang , Yinghui He , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This work studies near-field secure communications through transmit beamfocusing. We examine the benefit of having a protected eavesdropper-free zone around the legitimate receiver, and we determine the worst-case secrecy performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Cen Liu , Xiangyun Zhou , Nan Yang , Salman Durrani , A. Lee Swindlehurst

A subspace method for channel estimation has been recently proposed [1] for tackling the pilot contamination effect, which is regarded by some researchers as a bottleneck in massive MIMO systems. It was shown in [1] that if the power ratio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Mohammed Teeti , Jun Sun , David Gesbert , Yingzhuang Liu

Communication in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band has recently been proposed to enable giga-bit-per-second data rates for next generation wireless systems. Physical layer security techniques have emerged as a simple and yet effective way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Rohith Talwar , Nancy Amala , George Medina , Akshadeep Singh Jida , Mohammed E. Eltayeb

Numerous communications and networking challenges prevent deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in extreme environments where the existing wireless technologies are mainly ground-focused; and, as a consequence, the air-to-air channel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Alireza Mohammadi , Mehdi Rahmati , Hafiz Malik

This paper investigates secure communications in a near-field multi-functional integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system with an extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAA) equipped at the base station (BS). In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Zixiang Ren , Siyao Zhang , Xinmin Li , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The role of multiple antennas for secure communication is investigated within the framework of Wyner's wiretap channel. We characterize the secrecy capacity in terms of generalized eigenvalues when the sender and eavesdropper have multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-31 Ashish Khisti , Gregory Wornell