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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) draws great attentions in academic and industry due to its passive and low power consumption nature, and has currently been used in physical layer security to enhance the secure transmission.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Limeng Dong , Hui-Ming Wang , Jiale Bai

As a kind of wavefront with helical phase, orbital angular momentum (OAM) shows the great potential to enhance the security results of wireless communications due to its unique orthogonality and central hollow electromagnetic wave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Minmin Wang , Liping Liang , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Ruirui Chen , Hailin Zhang

This letter investigates the performance of emerging wireless communication systems assisted by a fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS). Unlike conventional reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), an FRIS consists of…

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is one of the promising 6G technologies that allows the conversion of the wireless channel into an intelligent transmit entity by manipulating the impinging waves using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 I. Yildirim , A. Uyrus , E. Basar

Wireless powered communication (WPC) combines information and energy transmission for energy-constrained nodes. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are capable of controlling radio signals in a dynamic and goal-oriented manner. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Waqas Khalid , Manish Nair , Trinh Van Chien , Heejung Yu

Incorporating rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) into integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) presents a significant security challenge, particularly in scenarios where the location of a potential eavesdropper (Eve) is unidentified.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 A. Abdelaziz Salem , Saeed Abdallah , Mohamed Saad , Khawla Alnajjar , Mahmoud A. Albreem

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a pivotal role in the emerging low-altitude economy. However, they face significant challenges in achieving reliable network coverage during transit operations. This paper provides an in-depth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yajun Zhao , Mengnan Jian , Yifei Yuan

Underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) is becoming an attractive technology for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) since it offers high-speed communication links. Although UOWC overcomes the drawbacks of acoustic and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Rawan Alghamdi , Nasir Saeed , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is poised to redefine the landscape of wireless networks by seamlessly combining data transmission and environmental sensing. However, ISAC systems remain susceptible to eavesdropping, especially…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Hancheng Zhu , Zongze Li , Yik-Chung Wu

An undesirable consequence of the foreseeable proliferation of sophisticated integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) technologies is the enabling of spoofing, by malicious agents, of situational information (such as proximity,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Getuar Rexhepi , Hyeon Seok Rou , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , George C. Alexandropoulos

With the rapid development of high-speed railway systems and railway wireless communication, the application of ultra-wideband millimeter wave band is an inevitable trend. However, the millimeter wave channel has large propagation loss and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Panpan Li , Yong Niu , Hao Wu , Zhu Han , Bo Ai , Ning Wang , Zhangdui Zhong

Although reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the radio environment, existing passive RISs face two key challenges, i.e., double-fading attenuation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Wen Wang , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Backscatter communication (BC) has emerged as a pivotal wireless communication paradigm owing to its low-power and cost-effective characteristics. However, BC faces various challenges from its low signal detection rate to its security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Zhao Li , Zheng Yan , Riku Jantti

Signal fading due to atmospheric channel impairments and pointing error is a major bottleneck for the performance of optical wireless communication (OWC). In this paper, we consider an amplify-and-forward (AF) optical relaying to enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Tejas Nimish Shah , Ziyaur Rahman , S. M. Zafaruddin

On the contrary of low speed and high delay acoustic systems, underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) can deliver a high speed and low latency service at the expense of short communication ranges. Therefore, multihop communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Abdulkadir Celik , Nasir Saeed , Basem Shihada , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

With the emergence of the internet of things (IoT) technology, wireless connectivity should be more ubiquitous than ever. In fact, the availability of wireless connection everywhere comes with security threats that, unfortunately, cannot be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Abdullateef Almohamad , Anas M. Tahir , Ayman Al-Kababji , Haji M. Furqan , Tamer Khattab , Mazen O. Hasna , Huseyin Arslan

The study examines the secrecy outage probability (SOP) and intercept probability (IP) of a reflecting intelligent surface (RIS)-enabled THz wireless network experiencing $\alpha-\mu$ fading with pointing errors. Specifically, the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Faissal El Bouanani , Elmehdi Illi , Marwa Qaraqe , Osamah Badarneh

In this paper, we analyze the performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-hop transmission by employing multiple RIS units to enable favorable communication for a mixed free-space optical (FSO) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Vinay Kumar Chapala , S. M. Zafaruddin

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is one of the promising techniques for 6G wireless communications, and recently has also been shown to be able to improve secure communications. However, there is a "double fading" effect in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Weigang Lv , Jiale Bai , Qingli Yan , Hui-Ming Wang

Physical layer security (PLS) has received a growing interest from the research community for its ability to safeguard data confidentiality without relying on key distribution or encryption/decryption. However, the evolution towards the 5G…