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Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) is a promising technology for future wireless networks, enabling simultaneous communication and sensing using shared resources. This paper investigates the performance of full-duplex (FD)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Ahsan Nazar , Zhambyl Shaikhanov , Sennur Ulukus

The increase in antenna apertures and transmission frequencies in next-generation wireless networks is catalyzing advancements in near-field communications (NFC). In this paper, we investigate secure transmission in near-field multi-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Zihao Teng , Jiancheng An , Christos Masouros , Hongbin Li , Lu Gan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays) have emerged as a promising technology to improve the spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution of future wireless systems. Different from existing works that mostly considered physical layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Tianyu Liu , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Yunpu Zhang , Shiqi Gong , Heng Liu , Guangchi Zhang

For autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) secure communications, traditional designs based on fixed position antenna (FPA) lack sufficient spatial degrees of freedom (DoF), which leaves the line-of-sight-dominated AAV links vulnerable to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Yingjie Wu , Junshan Luo , Weiyu Chen , Shilian Wang , Fanggang Wang , Haiyang Ding

The physical-layer security issue in the multiple non-regenerative wireless-powered relay (WPR) networks is investigated in this letter, where the idle relay is treated as a potential eavesdropper. To guarantee secure communication, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Mingxiong Zhao , Xiangfeng Wang , Suili Feng

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) plays a crucial role in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), serving as a key factor in enhancing driving safety and traffic efficiency. To address the security challenges of the confidential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Kaixuan Li , Kan Yu , Xiaowu Liu , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Dong Li

This paper introduces a multi-beam secure communication scheme for mixed near-field and far-field (hNF) scenarios, primarily designed to address the challenges faced by sixth-generation (6G) networks in simultaneously managing near-field…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-24 Wensheng Deng , Bin Qiu , Wenchi Cheng

This paper investigates a cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system that addresses the critical challenge of information leakage to potential eavesdroppers located within…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Ruiguang Wang , Takumi Takahashi , Hideki Ochiai

The extensive deployment of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites introduces significant security challenges for communication security issues in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. With the rising number of satellites potentially acting as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Anna Talgat , Ruibo Wang , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper investigates the optimization of beamforming design in a system with integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), where the base station (BS) sends signals for simultaneous multiuser communication and radar sensing. We aim at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zhenyao He , Wei Xu , Hong Shen , Yongming Huang , Huahua Xiao

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

Communication security could be enhanced at physical layer but at the cost of complex algorithms and redundant hardware, which would render traditional physical layer security (PLS) techniques unsuitable for use with resource-constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Tongyang Xu

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute a strong candidate physical-layer technology for the $6$-th Generation (6G) of wireless networks, offering new design degrees of freedom for efficiently addressing demanding performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , George C. Alexandropoulos

The problem of secure communication in Amplify-and-Forward (AF) relay networks with multiple eavesdroppers is considered. Assuming that a receiver (destination or eavesdropper) can decode a message only if the received SNR is above a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Siddhartha Sarma , Samar Agnihotri , Joy Kuri

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems have the issue of secrecy leakage when using the ISAC waveforms for sensing, thus posing a potential risk for eavesdropping. To address this problem, we propose to employ movable antennas…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yaodong Ma , Kai Liu , Yanming Liu , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao

In this paper, we investigate the robust resource allocation design for secure communication in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. A multi-antenna dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) base station (BS) serves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Anke Schmeink , Robert Schober

This paper studies the problem of remote state estimation in the presence of a passive eavesdropper. A sensor measures a linear plant's state and transmits it to an authorized user over a packet-dropping channel, which is susceptible to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Anastasios Tsiamis , Konstantinos Gatsis , George Pappas

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

In this letter, the use of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the physical layer security of downlink wireless communication is investigated. Assuming a single-antenna legitimate user and a multi-antenna eavesdropper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-07 Keming Feng , Xiao Li , Yu Han , Shi Jin , Yijian Chen

Physical Layer Security (PLS) is an emerging concept in the field of secrecy for wireless communications that can be used alongside cryptography to prevent unauthorized devices from eavesdropping a legitimate transmission. It offers low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Leonardo Barbosa da Silva , Evelio Martín Garcia Fernández , Ândrei Camponogara