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This paper considers a Gaussian multi-input multi-output (MIMO) wiretap channel with a legitimate transmitter, a legitimate receiver (Bob), an eavesdropper (Eve), and a cooperative jammer. All nodes may be equipped with multiple antennas.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Yinfei Xu , Giuseppe Caire

This paper investigates physical layer security (PLS) in wireless interference networks. Specifically, we consider confidential transmission from a legitimate transmitter (Alice) to a legitimate receiver (Bob), in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Lin Hu , Jiabing Fan , Hong Wen , Jie Tang , Qianbin Chen

This paper addresses the establishment of secure communication links between smart-meters (Alice) and an aggregator (Bob) in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve). The proposed scenario assumes: (i) MIMOME wiretap channel; (ii) transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Hirley Alves , Mauricio Tomé , Pedro H. J. Nardelli , Carlos H. M. de Lima , Matti Latva-aho

This paper studies secrecy rate optimization in a wireless network with a single-antenna source, a multi-antenna destination and a multi-antenna eavesdropper. This is an unfavorable scenario for secrecy performance as the system is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Gan Zheng , Ioannis Krikidis , Jiangyuan Li , Athina P. Petropulu , Bjorn Ottersten

This paper presents further insights into a recently developed round-trip communication scheme called ``Secret-message Transmission by Echoing Encrypted Probes (STEEP)''. A legitimate wireless channel between a multi-antenna user (Alice)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yingbo Hua , Md Saydur Rahman

In this paper, we investigate joint information theoretic secrecy and covert communication in a single-input multi-output (SIMO) system where a transmitter (Alice) is communicating with two legitimate users (Bob and Carol). We consider that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 Moslem Forouzesh , Paeiz Azmi , Ali Kuhestani , Phee Lep Yeoh

In this paper, we investigate the impact of phase noise on the secrecy performance of downlink massive MIMO systems in the presence of a passive multiple-antenna eavesdropper. Thereby, for the base station (BS) and the legitimate users, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jun Zhu , Robert Schober , Vijay K. Bhargava

We study a multi-antenna broadcast channel with two legitimate receivers and an external eavesdropper. We assume that the channel matrix of the eavesdropper is unknown to the legitimate terminals but satisfies a maximum rank constraint. As…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xiang He , Ashish Khisti , Aylin Yener

In this paper, we investigate secure communication over sparse millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels by exploiting the spatial sparsity of legitimate user's channel. We propose a secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The classic MIMO wiretap channel comprises a passive eavesdropper that attempts to intercept communications between an authorized transmitter-receiver pair, each node being equipped with multiple antennas. In a dynamic network, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Amitav Mukherjee , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Privacy breaches of cyber-physical systems could expose vulnerabilities to an adversary. Here, privacy leaks of step inputs to linear-time-invariant systems are mitigated through additive Gaussian noise. Fundamental lower bounds on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Rijad Alisic , Marco Molinari , Philip E. Paré , Henrik Sandberg

In this paper, a delay-angle information spoofing (DAIS) strategy is proposed to enhance the location privacy at the physical layer. More precisely, the location-relevant delays and angles are artificially shifted without the aid of channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Jianxiu Li , Urbashi Mitra

A scheme for secure communications, called ``Secret-message Transmission by Echoing Encrypted Probes (STEEP)'', is revisited. STEEP is a round-trip scheme with a probing phase from one user to another and an echoing phase in the reverse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Yingbo Hua

One key metric for physical layer security is the secrecy capacity. This is the maximum rate that a system can transmit with perfect secrecy. For a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system (a newer technology for 5G, 6G and beyond) the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Jennifer Chakravarty , Oliver Johnson , Robert Piechocki

In physical layer security (PHY-security), the frequently observed high correlation between the main and wiretap channels can cause a significant loss of secrecy. This paper investigates a slow fading scenario, where a transmitter (Alice)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Shuai Han , Sai Xu , Weixiao Meng , Cheng Li

In this paper, an artificial noise-aided strategy is presented for location-privacy preservation. A novel framework for the reduction of location-privacy leakage is introduced, where structured artificial noise is designed to degrade the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Jianxiu Li , Urbashi Mitra

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

In this paper, we introduce a beamforming framework to ensure transmitter location privacy against sensing-capable MIMO receivers. We propose a novel privacy metric called the direction-of-arrival obfuscation power ratio (DoA-OPR) to design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Umair Ali Khan , Lester Ho , Holger Claussen , Mark F. Flanagan , Chinmoy Kundu

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

Considering a multiple-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel with an eavesdropper, this letter develops a beamformer design to optimize the energy efficiency in terms of secrecy bits per Joule under secrecy quality-of-service…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Nguyen T. Nghia , Hoang D. Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor