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This paper investigates robust secure communications in a near-field integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system, in which the base station (BS) is equipped with an extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA). In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Zixiang Ren , Siyao Zhang , Ling Qiu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jie Xu

This letter investigates secure hybrid beamforming (HB) design for an extremely large-scale antenna array-aided simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system operating in a mixed near-field (NF)/far-field (FF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Yaqian Yi , Guangchi Zhang , Miao Cui , Changsheng You , Qingqing Wu

This thesis focuses on the wireless security in the physical layer with beamforming technique. One of the emerging areas is the security enhancement in the physical layer, which exploits the intrinsic properties of the wireless medium.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Yuanrui Zhang

This paper examines the secrecy performance of millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) communications with imperfect hardware and uncertain eavesdropper location. We consider a multiple-antenna source communicating with a single-antenna destination using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Saeed Mashdour , Majid Moradikia , Phee Lep Yeoh

A pioneering secure transmission scheme is proposed, which harnesses movable antennas (MAs) to optimize antenna positions for augmenting the physical layer security. Particularly, an MA-enabled secure wireless system is considered, where a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Xiaoming She , Chongjun Ouyang , Peng Chen

Near-field beamfocusing with extremely large aperture arrays can effectively enhance physical layer security. Nevertheless, even small estimation errors of the eavesdropper's location may cause a pronounced focal shift, resulting in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shicong Liu , Xianghao Yu , Robert Schober

A wireless network of multiple transmitter-user pairs overheard by an eavesdropper, where the transmitters are equipped with multiple antennas while the users and eavesdropper are equipped with a single antenna, is considered. At different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Zhichao Sheng , Hoang Duong Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

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

This paper investigates secure communications in a near-field multi-functional integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system with an extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAA) equipped at the base station (BS). In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Zixiang Ren , Siyao Zhang , Xinmin Li , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Reliable and secure communication is an important aspect of modern fiber optic communication. In this work we consider a multi-mode fiber (MMF) channel wiretapped by an eavesdropper. We assume the transmitter knows the legitimate channel,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Eduard Jorswieck , Andrew Lonnstrom , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Stefan Rothe , Juergen W. Czarske

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the terrestrial cellular networks is envisioned as one key technology for next-generation wireless communications. In this work, we consider the physical layer security of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Sung Joon Maeng , Yavuz Yapıcı , İsmail Güvenç , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Physical layer security (PLS) technologies are expected to play an important role in the next-generation wireless networks, by providing secure communication to protect critical and sensitive information from illegitimate devices. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yun Wen , Gaojie Chen , Sisai Fang , Zheng Chu , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli

Beam alignment (BA) is a crucial process in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications, enabling precise directional transmission and efficient link establishment. However, due to characteristics like omnidirectional exposure and the broadcast…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yulin Teng , Keshuang Han , Pinchang Zhang , Xiaohong Jiang , Yulong Shen , Fu Xiao

This work studies a beamforming design for downlink transmission of a multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) system where each legitimate user employs a power splitting (PS) based simultaneous wireless information and power transfer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Miao Zhang , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Lei Ni , Hang Hu Alister G. Burr , Zhiguo Ding

Flexible antenna arrays (FAAs) can physically reshape their geometry to add new spatial degrees of freedom, whereas transmit beamforming adjusts the complex element weights to electronically steer and shape the array's radiation pattern,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Zhen Xu , Gaojie Chen , Jing Zhu , Weiwei Zhao , Yonghui Li , Rahim Tafazolli , Wei Huang

The high directionality of millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems has proven effective in reducing the attack surface against eavesdropping, thus improving the physical layer security. However, even with highly directional beams,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Afifa Ishtiaq , Arash Asadi , Ladan Khaloopour , Waqar Ahmed , Vahid Jamali , Matthias Hollick

A near-field secure transmission framework is proposed. Employing the hybrid beamforming architecture, a multi-antenna base station (BS) transmits confidential information to a multi-antenna legitimate user (U) against a multi-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Jian Chen

This paper studies physical layer security in a wireless ad hoc network with numerous legitimate transmitter-receiver pairs and eavesdroppers. A hybrid full-/half-duplex receiver deployment strategy is proposed to secure legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Jinhong Yuan , Zhu Han , Moon Ho Lee

In this paper, we consider a synthetic aperture secure beamforming approach for a virtual multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) broadcast channel in the presence of hybrid wiretapping environments. Our goal is to design the flight node…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Bin Qiu , Wenchi Cheng , Hongxiang He , Jiangzhou 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