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Owing to the vulnerability of relay-assisted and device-to-device (D2D) communications, improving wireless security from a physical layer signal processing perspective is attracting increasing interest. Hence we address the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Jiaxin Yang , Qiang Li , Benoit Champagne , Yulong Zou , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we investigate methods for reducing the likelihood that a message transmitted between two multiantenna nodes is intercepted by an undetected eavesdropper. In particular, we focus on the judicious transmission of artificial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Amitav Mukherjee , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In conventional artificial noise (AN)-aided physical-layer security systems, fixed-position antenna (FPA) arrays exhibit inherent vulnerability to coverage gaps due to their static spatial configuration. Adversarial eavesdroppers can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kan Yu , Wenxu Wang , Xiaowu Liu , Yujia Zhao , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Dong Li

Due to the broadcast nature of radio propagation, the wireless transmission can be readily overheard by unauthorized users for interception purposes and is thus highly vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks. To this end, physical-layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yulong Zou , Jia Zhu , Xianbin Wang , Victor C. M. Leung

This paper considers secure communication in buffer-aided cooperative wireless networks in the presence of one eavesdropper, which can intercept the data transmission from both the source and relay nodes. A new max-ratio relaying protocol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Jiayu Zhou , Deli Qiao , Haifeng Qian

In physical layer security (PHY-security), the frequently observed high correlation between the main and wiretap channels can cause a significant loss of secrecy. This paper investigates a slow fading scenario, where a transmitter (Alice)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Shuai Han , Sai Xu , Weixiao Meng , Cheng Li

In this correspondence, we consider an amplify-and-forward relay network in which relayed information is overheard by an eavesdropper. In order to confound the eavesdropper, a wireless-powered jammer is also considered which harvests energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Omer Waqar , Hina Tabassum , Raviraj Adve

We investigate the physical-layer security of indoor hybrid parallel power-line/wireless orthogonal-frequency division-multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems. We propose an artificial-noise (AN) aided scheme to enhance the system's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Ahmed El Shafie , Mohamed F. Marzban , Rakan Chabaan , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Considering a multiple-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel with an eavesdropper, this letter develops a beamformer design to optimize the energy efficiency in terms of secrecy bits per Joule under secrecy quality-of-service…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Nguyen T. Nghia , Hoang D. Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

This paper presents a novel approach to achieving secure wireless communication by leveraging the inherent characteristics of wireless channels through end-to-end learning using a single-input-multiple-output (SIMO) autoencoder (AE). To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Abdullahi Mohammad , Mahmoud Tukur Kabir , Mikko Valkama , Bo Tan

In this paper, a cognitive relay channel is considered, and amplify-and-forward (AF) relay beamforming designs in the presence of an eavesdropper and a primary user are studied. Our objective is to optimize the performance of the cognitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-01 Junwei Zhang , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

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 present an optimized secure multi-antenna transmission approach based on artificial-noise-aided beamforming, with limited feedback from a desired single-antenna receiver. To deal with beamformer quantization errors as well as unknown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Xi Zhang , Matthew R. McKay , Xiangyun Zhou , Robert W. Heath

This paper studies secrecy rate optimization in a wireless network with a single-antenna source, a multi-antenna destination and a multi-antenna eavesdropper. This is an unfavorable scenario for secrecy performance as the system is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Gan Zheng , Ioannis Krikidis , Jiangyuan Li , Athina P. Petropulu , Bjorn Ottersten

Secrecy transmission is investigated for a cooperative jamming scheme, where a multi-antenna jam-mer generates artificial noise (AN) to confuse eavesdroppers. Two kinds of eavesdroppers are considered: passive eavesdroppers who only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Jiangbo Si , Zihao Cheng , Zan Li , Julian Cheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This work studies secure communications for a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) network which is attacked by multiple passive eavesdroppers overhearing communications between access points (APs) and users in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Junguk Park , Sangseok Yun , Jeongseok Ha

In this paper, we develop a novel low-complexity artificial noise (AN) aided beam focusing scheme in a near-field terahertz wiretap communication system. In this system, the base station (BS) equipped with a large-scale array transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zhifeng Tang , Nan Yang , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Markku Juntti , Josep Miquel Jornet

A novel movable antenna (MA)-aided secure transmission framework is proposed to enhance the secrecy transmission rate without relying on the eavesdropper's channel state information. Within this framework, a joint beamforming and jamming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Zhenqiao Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

This paper proposes a robust beamforming (BF) scheme to enhance physical layer security (PLS) of the downlink of a multibeam satellite system in the presence of either uncoordinated or coordinated eavesdroppers (Eves). Specifically, with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Jian Zhang , Min Lin , Jian Ouyang , Wei-Ping Zhu , Tomaso de Cola

In this paper, the secure performance of multiuser multiple-input single-output wireless communications systems assisted by a multifunctional active intelligent reflection surface (IRS) is investigated. The active IRS can simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Shaokang Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan