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This paper considers the secrecy performance of several schemes for multi-antenna transmission to single-antenna users with full-duplex (FD) capability against randomly distributed single-antenna eavesdroppers (EDs). These schemes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Ishmam Zabir , Ahmed Maksud , Gaojie Chen , Brian M. Sadler , Yingbo Hua

This letter investigates the secret communication problem for a fluid antenna system (FAS)-assisted wiretap channel, where the legitimate transmitter transmits an information-bearing signal to the legitimate receiver, and at the same time,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Wee Kiat New , Guyue Li , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Yongxu Zhu , Shi Jin , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

Massive connectivity with ultra-low latency and high reliability necessitates fundamental advances in future communication networks operating under finite-blocklength (FBL) transmission. Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have emerged as a…

This paper presents an analytical framework for evaluating the coverage performance of the fluid antenna system (FAS)-enhanced LoRa wide-area networks (LoRaWANs). We investigate the effects of large-scale pathloss in LoRaWAN, small-scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Gaoze Mu , Yanzhao Hou , Mingjie Chen , Yuanyu Hu , Yongan Zheng , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao

Secure communications is becoming increasingly relevant in the development of space technology. Well established cryptographic technology is already in place and is expected to continue to be so. On the other hand, information theoretical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Angeles Vazquez-Castro , Masahito Hayashi

The extensive deployment of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites introduces significant security challenges for communication security issues in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. With the rising number of satellites potentially acting as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Anna Talgat , Ruibo Wang , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Data at the physical layer transmits via media such as copper cable, fiber optic, or wireless. Physical attack vectors exist that challenge data confidentiality and availability. Protocols and encryption standards help obfuscate but often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Alon Hillel-Tuch

This paper investigates physical layer security (PLS) in the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiple-user uplink channel. Since the instantaneous eavesdropper's channel state information (CSI) is unavailable, the secrecy rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xiangrui Cheng , Yiliang Liu , Zhou Su , Wei Wang

In this letter, the use of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the physical layer security of downlink wireless communication is investigated. Assuming a single-antenna legitimate user and a multi-antenna eavesdropper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-07 Keming Feng , Xiao Li , Yu Han , Shi Jin , Yijian Chen

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have emerged as a revolutionary technology offering enhanced spatial diversity within a compact form factor. Concurrently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are integral to future networks, necessitating channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Xusheng Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Qingqing Wu , Hyundong Shin , Yangyang Zhang

The additional degree of freedom (DoF) in the distance domain of near-field communication offers new opportunities for physical layer security (PLS) design. However, existing works mainly consider static eavesdroppers, and the related study…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Yiming Xu , Mingxuan Zheng , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song , Daniel Benevides da Costa

In this paper, we consider the transmission of confidential information over a $\kappa$-$\mu$ fading channel in the presence of an eavesdropper, who also observes $\kappa$-$\mu$ fading. In particular, we obtain novel analytical solutions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Nidhi Bhargav , Simon L. Cotton , David E. Simmons

In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security over the Alternate Rician Shadowed fading channel, which is a novel channel model for body-centric wireless links and land mobile satellite. We derive exact closed-form expressions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Xiaoqi Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Ning Wang , Bo Ai

In this paper, we study physical layer security for the downlink of cellular networks, where the confidential messages transmitted to each mobile user can be eavesdropped by both (i) the other users in the same cell and (ii) the users in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Giovanni Geraci , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Jinhong Yuan , Iain B. Collings

Wireless vehicular network (WVN) is exponentially gaining attention from industries and researchers since it is the Keystone of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Despite the sophisticated features and services that it can offer, it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Neji Mensi , Danda B. Rawat , Elyes Balti

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are employed to enhance the physical layer security in a challenging radio environment. In particular, a multi-antenna access point (AP) has to serve multiple single-antenna legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Ying Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

We show that for a legitimate communication under multipath quasi-static fading with a reduced number of scatterers, it is possible to achieve perfect secrecy even in the presence of a passive eavesdropper for which no channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Pablo Ramírez-Espinosa , R. José Sánchez-Alarcón , F. Javier López-Martínez

Physical layer (PHY) security in decode-and-forward (DF) relay systems is discussed. Based on the types of wiretap links, the secrecy performance of three typical secure DF relay models is analyzed. Different from conventional works in this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Chongjun Ouyang , Hao Xu , Xujie Zang , Hongwen Yang

Due to their flexible deployment and on-demand mobility, small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are anticipated to be involved in widespread communication applications in the forthcoming fifth-generation (5G) networks. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Hui-Ming Wang , Xu Zhang , Jia-Cheng Jiang

Physical layer security is an emerging technique to improve the wireless communication security, which is widely regarded as a complement to cryptographic technologies. To design physical layer security techniques under practical scenarios,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou , Thushara D. Abhayapala