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This paper investigates the downlink (DL) physical layer security (PLS) in a near-field (NF) extra-large multiple-input multiple-output MIMO (XL-MIMO) system. To enhance the secrecy rate (SR), null-space artificial noise (AN) is transmitted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xiangjun Ma , Ali Arshad Nasir , Daniel Benevides da Costa

The full-duplex (FD) technology has the potential to radically evolve wireless systems, facilitating the integration of both communications and radar functionalities into a single device, thus, enabling joint communication and sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chandan Kumar Sheemar , George C. Alexandropoulos , Dirk Slock , Jorge Querol , Symeon Chatzinotas

Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising technology to secure wireless communications by exploiting the physical properties of the wireless channel. However, the passive nature of PLS creates a significant imbalance between the effort…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wenwen Chen , Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Anke Schmeink , Giuseppe Caire , Hans D. Schotten

This paper concerns maximizing the minimum achievable secrecy rate of a two-way relay network in the presence of an eavesdropper, in which two nodes aim to exchange messages in two hops, using a multi-antenna relay. Throughout the first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Erfan khordad , Soroush Akhlaghi , Meysam Mirzaee

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been receiving a notable interest as an energy- and spectrum-efficient enabler for simultaneous communication and sensing. Notably, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is among the key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Elmehdi Illi , Marwa Qaraqe

This letter focuses on the secure transmission for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) systems, in which a base station (BS) communicates with its destination via an IRS, in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Jingping Qiao , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The development of dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) systems, where vehicle localization and tracking can be combined with vehicular communication, will lead to more efficient future vehicular networks. In this paper, we develop a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Weijie Yuan , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , Jinhong Yuan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology has been considered as one of the key candidate technologies in the next-generation wireless communication systems. However, when radar and communication equipment coexist in the same…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-08 Mengyu Liu , Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Boshi Wang , Zhiyuan Yu , Ruisong Weng , Kangda Zhi , Yongchao He

The potential of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) for energy-efficient and performance-boosted wireless communications is recently gaining remarkable research attention, motivating their consideration for various $5$-th Generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Miaowen Wen , Daniel B. da Costa

This work focuses on the synergy of physical layer covert transmission and millimeter wave (mmWave) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) to improve the performance, and enable secure internet of things (IoT) systems. Specifically, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Lingyun Xu , Bowen Wang , Ziyang Cheng

This paper investigates the performance of physical layer security (PLS) in a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication system, where a transmitter vehicle exploits a dual reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to send confidential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Masoud Kaveh , Kai-Kit Wong , Diego Martin

Consider a full-duplex (FD) multiuser system where an FD base station (BS) is designed to simultaneously serve both downlink users and uplink users in the presence of half-duplex eavesdroppers (Eves). Our problem is to maximize the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Hieu V. Nguyen , Octavia A. Dobre , Oh-Soon Shin

Near-field spherical wavefronts enable spotlight-like beam focusing to mitigate unintended energy leakage, creating new opportunities for physical-layer security (PLS). However, under hybrid analog-digital (HAD) antenna architectures,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiasi Zhou , Huiyun Xia , Chuan Wu , Chintha Tellambura

The synergy between integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) unlocks novel applications and advanced services for next-generation wireless networks, yet also introduces new security…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Zehra Yigit , Sefa Kayraklik , Ertugrul Basar , Ali Gorcin

This paper investigates the physical layer security (PLS) of a broadband in-home power line communication (PLC) system when a malicious wireless device tries to eavesdrop private messages exchanged between two PLC devices. Such a security…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-30 Ândrei Camponogara , H. Vincent Poor , Moisés V. Ribeiro

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising technology to fully utilize the precious spectrum and hardware in wireless systems, which has attracted significant attentions recently. This paper studies ISAC for the important…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

The concept of fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS) upgrades the conventional reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) paradigm by empowering its reflecting elements with positioning reconfigurability. This letter aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Xusheng Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Boyi Tang , Wen Chen , Chan-Byoung Chae

In this paper, we propose to use hybrid relay-intelligent reflecting surface (HR-IRS) to improve the security performance of directional modulation (DM) system. In particular, the eavesdropper in this system works in full-duplex (FD) mode…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Feng Shu , Hangjia He , Rongen Dong , Yeqing Lin , Long Shi , Qiankun Cheng , Jun Li , Jiangzhou Wang

Communication security could be enhanced at physical layer but at the cost of complex algorithms and redundant hardware, which would render traditional physical layer security (PLS) techniques unsuitable for use with resource-constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Tongyang Xu

Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems have relatively higher security compared with traditional Radio Frequency (RF) channels due to line-of-sight (LOS) propagation. However, they still are susceptible to eavesdropping. The proposed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ashish Sharma , Harshil Bhatt