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This paper studies an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS)-aided near-field physical layer security (PLS) communication system, aiming to maximize the secrecy rate by jointly optimizing precoding vector at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiaotong Xu , Qian Zhang , Yunxiao Li , Xuejun Cheng , Meihui Liu , Ju Liu

This paper studies a downlink secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) transmits confidential messages to a single-antenna communication user (CU) while performing sensing on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Zixiang Ren , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In low-altitude wireless communications, the increased complexity of wireless channels and the uncertainty of eavesdroppers (Eves)--caused by diverse altitudes, speeds, and obstacles--pose significant challenges to physical layer security…

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communications have drawn significant attention recently. We study the physical layer security of the downlink RIS-aided transmission framework for randomly located users in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Qiang Sun , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This paper studies a secrecy integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) aims to send confidential messages to a single-antenna communication user (CU), and at the same time sense several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zixiang Ren , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as aerial base stations to provide communication service for remote mobile users due to their high mobility and flexible deployment. However, the line-of-sight (LoS) wireless links are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xiongwei Wu , Qiang Li , Yawei Lu , H. Vincent Poor , Victor C. M. Leung , P. C. Ching

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is leveraged to enhance the physical layer security of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system in which the IRS is deployed to not only assist the downlink communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Octavia A. Dobre , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this letter, we investigate enhancing the physical layer security (PLS) for the dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) system with hybrid beamforming (HBF) architecture, where the base station (BS) achieves downlink communication and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Lingyun Xu , Bowen Wang , Huiyong Li , Ziyang Cheng

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 following paper models a secure full duplex (FD) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) scenario, where malicious eavesdroppers aim at intercepting the downlink (DL) as well as the uplink (UL) information exchanged between the dual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Ahmad Bazzi , Marwa Chafii

The 6G wireless networks impose extremely high requirements on physical layer secure communication. However, the existing solutions usually can only achieve one-dimensional physical layer security (PLS) in the angle dimension, and cannot…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Zhendong Wang , Chenyang Meng , Jun Yang , Jiayuan Wang , Yin Li , Linshan Jiang , Jin Zhang

The degrees of freedom (DoFs) attained in monostatic integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) are analyzed. Specifically, monostatic sensing aims for extracting target-orientation information from the line of sight (LoS) channel between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Shihang Lu , Fan Liu , Lajos Hanzo

This paper investigates a coordinated multi-cell integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system operating in the electromagnetic near field, where each base station (BS) employs an extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yuan Guo , Yilong Chen , Zixiang Ren , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jie Xu

This paper analyzes the stochastic security performance of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system in a downlink scenario. A base station (BS) transmits a multi-functional signal to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Marziyeh Soltani , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

A novel Physical Layer Security (PLS) framework is conceived for enhancing the security of the wireless communication systems by exploiting multi-domain polarization in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems. We design a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Luping Xiang , Yao Zeng , Jie Hu , Kun Yang , Lajos Hanzo

In physical layer security, the channel state information (CSI) of passive eavesdroppers is usually difficult to obtain, which has motivated sensing-aided secure communication (SASC). However, in secure multicast scenarios, conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zequan Wang , Liang Yin , Hao Xu , Yunan Sun , Yitong Liu , Hongwen Yang

In this paper, we investigate physical layer security (PLS) for full-duplex (FD) multi-user systems. We consider a base station (BS) that operates in FD mode and transmits artificial noise (AN) to simultaneously protect uplink (UL) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Bingli Jiao

Ensuring robust security in near-field Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems remains a critical challenge due to dynamic channel conditions, multi-eavesdropper threats, and the high computational burden of real-time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Mehzabien Iqbal , Ahmad Y Javaid

This paper investigates movable antenna (MA) empowered secure transmission in near-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, where the base station (BS) equipped with an MA array transmits confidential information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yaodong Ma , Kai Liu , Yanming Liu , Lipeng Zhu

The feasibility of physical-layer-based security approaches for wireless communications in the presence of one or more eavesdroppers is hampered by channel conditions. In this paper, cooperation is investigated as an approach to overcome…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Lun Dong , Zhu Han , Athina P. Petropulu , H. Vincent Poor