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Physical layer security offers an efficient means to decrease the risk of confidential information leakage through wiretap links. In this paper, we address the physical-layer security in a cooperative wireless subnetwork that includes a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Saeed Vahidian , Sajad Hatamnia , Benoit Champagne

A bit error rate (BER)-based physical layer security approach is proposed for finite blocklength. For secure communication in the sense of high BER, the information-theoretic strong converse is combined with cryptographic error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Il-Min Kim , Byoung-Hoon Kim , Joon Kui Ahn

In this paper, we propose a physical layer security (PLS) framework for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted integrated sensing and semantic communication (ISASC) system, where a multi-antenna dual-functional semantic base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Hamid Amiriara , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Ahmed Elzanaty , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

As a key technology in metaversa, wireless ultimate extended reality (XR) has attracted extensive attentions from both industry and academia. However, the stringent latency and ultra-high data rates requirements have hindered the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Bowen Zhang , Zhijin Qin , Yiyu Guo , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic communication has emerged as new paradigm shifts in 6G from the conventional syntax-oriented communications. Recently, the wireless broadcast technology has been introduced to support semantic communication system toward higher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Mingze Gong , Shuoyao Wang , Fangwei Ye , Suzhi Bi

This paper considers a cooperative jamming (CJ)-aided secure wireless communication system. Conventionally, the jammer transmits Gaussian noise (GN) to enhance security; however, the GN scheme also degrades the legitimate receiver's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Hao Yang , Hao Xu , Kai Wan , Sijie Zhao , Robert Caiming Qiu

Semantic communications offer promising prospects for enhancing data transmission efficiency. However, existing schemes have predominantly concentrated on point-to-point transmissions. In this paper, we aim to investigate the validity of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Yanhu Wang , Shuaishuai Guo , Anming Dong , Hui Zhao

The rapid development of low-altitude economy has driven the proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, including logistics, inspection, and emergency response. However, transmitting high-volume image data from UAVs to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Kexin Zhang , Lixin Li , Yuna Yan , Xin Zhang , Wensheng Lin , Rui Li , Dongwei Zhao , Zhu Han

Semantic communication is focused on optimizing the exchange of information by transmitting only the most relevant data required to convey the intended message to the receiver and achieve the desired communication goal. For example, if we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Fatemeh Zahra Safaeipour , Morteza Hashemi

Semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than raw input symbol sequences. Task-oriented semantic communication is a variant that tries to retains only task-specific information, thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Xuesong Wang , Mo Li , Xingyan Shi , Zhaoqian Liu , Shenghao Yang

Semantic communications are considered a promising beyond-Shannon/bit paradigm to reduce network traffic and increase reliability, thus making wireless networks more energy efficient, robust, and sustainable. However, the performance is…

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation networks, yet several fundamental challenges remain unresolved. Building on the probabilistic model of semantic communication and leveraging the concept of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Javad Gholipour , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard P. Fettweis

Semantic communication (SemCom) demonstrates strong superiority over conventional bit-level accurate transmission, by only attempting to recover the essential semantic information of data. In this paper, in order to tackle the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Siyu Tong , Xiaoxue Yu , Rongpeng Li , Kun Lu , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Task-oriented semantic communications (TSC) enhance radio resource efficiency by transmitting task-relevant semantic information. However, current research often overlooks the inherent semantic distinctions among encoded features. Due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Shuai Lyu , Yao Sun , Linke Guo , Xiaoyong Yuan , Fang Fang , Lan Zhang , Xianbin Wang

Secure precoding superimposed with artificial noise (AN) is a promising transmission technique to improve security by harnessing the superposition nature of the wireless medium. However, finding a jointly optimal precoding and AN structure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Eunsung Choi , Mintaek Oh , Jinseok Choi , Jeonghun Park , Namyoon Lee , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In existing semantic communication systems for image transmission, some images are generally reconstructed with considerably low quality. As a result, the reliable transmission of each image cannot be guaranteed, bringing significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

In this letter, we propose a semantic communication scheme for wireless relay channels based on Autoencoder, named AESC, which encodes and decodes sentences from the semantic dimension. The Autoencoder module provides anti-noise performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Xinlai Luo , Zhiyong Chen , Bin Xia , Jiangzhou Wang

The development of the new generation of wireless technologies (6G) has led to an increased interest in semantic communication. Thanks also to recent developments in artificial intelligence and communication technologies, researchers in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Federico Francesco Luigi Mariani , Michele Zhu , Maurizio Magarini

This paper investigates a multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enabled cooperative secure transmission scheme in the presence of multiple potential eavesdroppers. Specifically, multiple source UAVs (SUAVs) send confidential information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Meng Hua , Yi Wang , Qingqing Wu , Haibo Dai , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

Recently, deep learned enabled end-to-end (E2E) communication systems have been developed to merge all physical layer blocks in the traditional communication systems, which make joint transceiver optimization possible. Powered by deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li , Biing-Hwang Juang