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Sixth-generation (6G) networks pose substantial security risks because confidential information is transmitted over wireless channels with a broadcast nature, and various attack vectors emerge. Physical layer security (PLS) exploits the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Waqas Khalid , M. Atif Ur Rehman , Trinh Van Chien , Zeeshan Kaleem , Howon Lee , Heejung Yu

This paper investigates physical layer security for a large-scale WSN with random multiple access, where each fusion center in the network randomly schedules a number of sensors to upload their sensed data subject to the overhearing of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Tong-Xing Zheng , Xin Chen , Chao Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Jinhong Yuan

Visible light is a proper spectrum for secure wireless communications because of its high directivity and impermeability in indoor scenarios. However, if an eavesdropper is located very close to a legitimate receiver, secure communications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Geonho Han , Hyuckjin Choi , Ryeong Myeong Kim , Ki Tae Nam , Junil Choi , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

Widely-deployed encryption-based security prevents unauthorized decoding, but does not ensure undetectability of communication. However, covert, or low probability of detection/intercept (LPD/LPI) communication is crucial in many scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Boulat A. Bash , Dennis Goeckel , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley

The security of wireless challenge-response Physical Layer Authentication (PLA) based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) relies on a sufficiently random fading channel condition, which is commonly assumed in existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haiyun Liu , Shangqing Zhao , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a key enabler for providing signal coverage, energy efficiency, reliable communication, and physical layer security (PLS) in next-generation wireless communication networks. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Ahmet Muaz Aktas , Sefa Kayraklik , Sultangali Arzykulov , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev , Ibrahim Hokelek , Ali Gorcin

In this work, we focus on the classical optical channel having Poissonian statistical behavior and propose a novel secrecy coding-based physical layer protocol. Our protocol is different but complementary to both (computationally secure)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Masahito Hayashi , Angeles Vazquez-Castro

This paper presents a comprehensive physical layer security (PLS) framework for fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided short-packet communications under the variable block-correlation model (VBCM). We consider a downlink wiretap scenario in which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jianchao Zheng , Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Baiyang Liu , Runyu Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Kin-Fai Tong , Sumei Sun

Cooperation between wireless network nodes is a promising technique for improving the physical layer security of wireless transmission, in terms of secrecy capacity, in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. While existing physical layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-29 Walid Saad , Zhu Han , Tamer Basar , Merouane Debbah , Are Hjørungnes

This paper presents a framework for converting wireless signals into structured datasets, which can be fed into machine learning algorithms for the detection of active eavesdropping attacks at the physical layer. More specifically, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Tiep M. Hoang , Trung Q. Duong , Hoang Duong Tuan , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Emi Garcia-Palacios , Long D. Nguyen

Research in underwater communication is rapidly becoming attractive due to its various modern applications. An efficient mechanism to secure such communication is via physical layer security. In this paper, we propose a novel physical layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Waqas Aman , Saif Al-Kuwari , Marwa Qaraqe

The wireless physical-layer identification (WPLI) techniques utilize the unique features of the physical waveforms of wireless signals to identify and classify authorized devices. As the inherent physical layer features are difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Wenhao Wang , Zhi Sun , Kui Ren , Bocheng Zhu , Sixu Piao

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

The sixth generation of wireless networks defined several key performance indicators (KPIs) for assessing its networks, mainly in terms of reliability, coverage, and sensing. In this regard, remarkable attention has been paid recently to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Waqas Aman , El-Mehdi Illi , Marwa Qaraqe , Saif Al-Kuwari

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have several prominent advantages, including improving the level of wireless communication security and privacy. In this work, we focus on the latter aspect and introduce a strategy to counteract the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Francesco Malandrino , Alessandro Nordio , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

We present two attacks on two different versions of physical layer cryptography schemes based on massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). Both cryptosystems employ a singular value decomposition (SVD) precoding technique. For the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Amin Sakzad , Ron Steinfeld

Due to great efficiency improvement in resource and hardware space, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has gained much attention. In the paper, the physical layer security (PLS) of ISAC system under communication eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tian Zhang , Zhirong Su , Yueyi Dong

This letter proposes a new physical layer authentication mechanism operating at the physical layer of a communication system where the receiver has partial control of the channel conditions (e.g., using an intelligent reflecting surface).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Laura Crosara , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Stefano Tomasin

This article investigates physical layer security (PLS) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output multiple-antenna-eavesdropper (MIMOME) channels. Existing researches ignore the problem that secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yiliang Liu , Zhou Su , Chi Zhang , Hsiao-Hwa Chen

We consider a cooperative wireless network in the presence of one of more eavesdroppers, and exploit node cooperation for achieving physical (PHY) layer based security. Two different cooperation schemes are considered. In the first scheme,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Jiangyuan Li , Athina P. Petropulu , Steven Weber