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Sensing-assisted communication schemes have recently garnered significant research attention. In this work, we design a dual-function reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), integrating both active and passive elements, referred to as the…

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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been recently considered as a promising candidate for energy-efficient solutions in future wireless networks. Their dynamic and lowpower configuration enables coverage extension, massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Li Wei , Chongwen Huang , Qinghua Guo , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

This letter proposes a new physical layer authentication mechanism operating at the physical layer of a communication system where the receiver has partial control of the channel conditions (e.g., using an intelligent reflecting surface).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Laura Crosara , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Stefano Tomasin

The physical-layer secret key generation has emerged as a promising solution for establishing cryptographic keys by leveraging reciprocal and time-varying wireless channels. However, existing approaches suffer from low key generation rates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Guyue Li , Haiyu Yang , Junqing Zhang , Hongbo Liu , Aiqun Hu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is emerging as a promising technique for performance enhancement for next-generation wireless networks. This paper investigates the physical layer security of an RIS-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Wei Shi , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Chunming Zhao

Physical-layer key generation (PKG) based on wireless channels is a lightweight technique to establish secure keys between legitimate communication nodes. Recently, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have been leveraged to enhance the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Chen Chen , Junqing Zhang , Tianyu Lu , Magnus Sandell , Liquan Chen

Recently, the physical layer security (PLS) of the communication systems has been shown to be enhanced by using legal receiver's feedback. The present secret key based feedback scheme mainly focuses on producing key from the feedback and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Bin Dai , Linman Yu , Zheng Ma

Channel state information (CSI) is essential to unlock the potential of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in wireless communication systems. Since massive RIS elements are typically implemented without baseband signal processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Weicong Chen , Jiajia Guo , Yiming Cui , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

Massive MIMO systems can achieve high spectrum and energy efficiency in downlink (DL) based on accurate estimate of channel state information (CSI). Existing works have developed learning-based DL CSI estimation that lowers uplink feedback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yu-Chien Lin , Ta-Sung Lee , Zhi Ding

More and more applications that require high reliability and fault tolerance are realized with wireless network architectures and thus ultimately rely on the wireless channels, which can be subject to impairments and blockages. Hence, these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Kevin Weinberger , Robert-Jeron Reifert , Aydin Sezgin , Ertugrul Basar

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are a promising technique for enhancing the performance of Next Generation (NextG) wireless communication systems in terms of both spectral and energy efficiency, as well as resource utilization.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Maria Tsampazi , Tommaso Melodia

\textcolor{blue}{In} this paper, we investigate the performance of physical layer security (PLS) over reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-aided wireless communication systems, where all fading channels are modeled with Fisher-Snedecor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Wei-Ping Zhu , Diego Martín

A communication link aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is studied in which the transmitter can control the state of the RIS via a finite-rate control link. Channel state information (CSI) is acquired at the receiver based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Roy Karasik , Osvaldo Simeone , Marco Di Renzo , Shlomo Shamai

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communications is on the rise and is a promising technology envisioned to aid in 6G and beyond wireless communication networks. RISs can manipulate impinging waves through their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Emre Arslan , Ibrahim Yildirim , Fatih Kilinc , Ertugrul Basar

In this paper, we quantify the physical layer security of a dual-hop regenerative relaying-based wireless communication system assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). In particular, the setup consists of a source node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Elmehdi Illi , Marwa K. Qaraqe , Faissal El Bouanani , Saif M. Al-Kuwari

Leakage of information in power line communication networks is a threat to privacy and security both in smart grids and in-home applications. A way to enhance security is to encode the transmitted information with a secret key. Relying on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Federico Passerini , Andrea M. Tonello

Physical-layer key generation (PKG) based on wireless channels is a lightweight technique to establish secure keys between legitimate communication nodes. Recently, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have been leveraged to enhance the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Chen Chen , Junqing Zhang , Tianyu Lu , Magnus Sandell , Liquan Chen

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has received widespread attention owing to the superiority of changing the wireless propagation environment intelligently. Channel feedback is essential in frequency division duplex (FDD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Decai Shen , Linglong Dai

Covert communications provide a stronger privacy protection than cryptography and physical-layer security (PLS). However, previous works on covert communications have implicitly assumed the validity of channel reciprocity, i.e., wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Huan Huang , Hongliang Zhang , Yi Cai , Dusit Niyato , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Zhu Han