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Physical Layer Security (PLS) is an emerging concept in the field of secrecy for wireless communications that can be used alongside cryptography to prevent unauthorized devices from eavesdropping a legitimate transmission. It offers low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Leonardo Barbosa da Silva , Evelio Martín Garcia Fernández , Ândrei Camponogara

Fluid antenna (FA) has become a highly promising technology and has recently been used to enhance the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. However, the scenario where sensing targets act as eavesdroppers in ISAC and how to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yunxiao Li , Qian Zhang , Xuejun Cheng , Zhiguo Wang , Xiaoyan Wang , Hongji Xu , Ju Liu

This paper presents a novel framework for enhancing physical-layer security in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems by leveraging the reconfigurability of fluid antenna systems (FAS). We propose a joint precoding and port…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Abdelhamid Salem , Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

In this letter, we study the performance of a single-user fluid antenna system (FAS) under arbitrary fading distributions, in which the fading channel coefficients over the ports are correlated. We adopt copula theory to model the structure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Kin-Fai Tong

Passive eavesdropping compromises confidentiality in wireless networks, especially in resource-constrained environments where heavyweight cryptography is impractical. Physical layer security (PLS) exploits channel randomness and spatial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yifan Zhang , Yishan Yang , Riku Jäntti , Zheng Yan , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

This letter investigates the potential of pinching-antenna systems for enhancing physical layer security. By pre-installing multiple pinching antennas at discrete positions along a waveguide, the capability of the considered system to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this work, we propose a new physical layer security framework for optical space networks. More precisely, we consider two practical eavesdropping scenarios: free-space optical (FSO) eavesdropping in the space and FSO eavesdropping in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Olfa Ben Yahia , Eylem Erdogan , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Ibrahim Altunbas , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Physical layer security is investigated over mixture Gamma (MG) distributed fading channels with discrete inputs. By the Gaussian quadrature rules, closed-form expressions are derived to characterize the average secrecy rate (ASR) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Chongjun Ouyang , Sheng Wu , Chunxiao Jiang , Julian Cheng , Hongwen Yang

Fluid antennas (FAs) is a promising technology for introducing flexibility and reconfigurability in wireless networks. Recent research efforts have highlighted the potential gains that can be achieved in comparison to conventional antennas.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Constantinos Psomas , Peter J. Smith , Himal A. Suraweera , Ioannis Krikidis

Over the past decades, multiple antenna technologies have appeared in many different forms, most notably as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), to transform wireless communications for extraordinary diversity and multiplexing gains. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Kai-Kit Wong , Arman Shojaeifard , Kin-Fai Tong , Yangyang Zhang

The secrecy performance in both near-field and far-field communications is analyzed using two fundamental metrics: the secrecy capacity under a power constraint and the minimum power requirement to achieve a specified secrecy rate target.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Boqun Zhao , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

This letter studies the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communications for a fluid antenna system (FAS) enabled receiver. Specifically, a fixed singleantenna base station (BS) transmits information through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Wee Kiat New , Hao Xu , Ross Murch , Yangyang Zhang

Satellite communications emerged as a promising extension to terrestrial networks in future 6G network research due to their extensive coverage in remote areas and ability to support the increasing traffic rate and heterogeneous networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Nora Abdelsalam , Saif Al-Kuwari , Aiman Erbad

In this paper, we propose a new frequency-switching array (FSA) to enhance the physical-layer security (PLS) in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers (Eves), where the carrier frequency can be flexibly switched and small frequency offsets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Chao Zhou , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Chengwen Xing , Rui Zhang

The broadcast nature of wireless communication systems makes wireless transmission extremely susceptible to eavesdropping and even malicious interference. Physical layer security technology can effectively protect the private information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Weiping Shi , Xinyi Jiang , Jinsong Hu , Yin Teng , Yang Wang , Hangjia He , Rongen Dong , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising paradigm for safeguarding 6G wireless networks by exploiting the inherent characteristics of wireless channels. However, the efficiency of conventional PLS is often limited by fixed orientation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ailing Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Xingxiang Peng , Qiaoyan Peng , Ziyuan Zheng , Yuxuan Chen , Wen Chen

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless medium, wireless communication is highly vulnerable to eavesdropping attack. Traditionally, secure wireless data transmission has relied on cryptographic techniques at the network layer which incur…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Binh Van Nguyen , Hyoyoung Jung , Kiseon Kim

A robust full-space physical layer security (PLS) transmission scheme is proposed in this paper considering the full-space wiretapping challenge of wireless networks supported by simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Ang Li , Wenjie Wang , Kun Yang

To enable innovative applications and services, both industry and academia are exploring new technologies for sixth generation (6G) communications. One of the promising candidates is fluid antenna system (FAS). Unlike existing systems, FAS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wee Kiat New , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Xu , Kin-Fai Tong , Chan-Byoung Chae

We propose a novel attack that compromises the physical layer security of downlink (DL) communications in wireless systems. This technique is based on the transmission of a slowly-varying random symbol by the eavesdropper during its uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Gonzalo J. Anaya-Lopez , Gerardo Gomez , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez