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In secure spatial modulation (SM) networks, power allocation (PA) strategies are investigated in this paper under the total power constraint. Considering that there is no closed-form expression for secrecy rate (SR), an approximate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Guiyang Xia , Linqiong Jia , Yuwen Qian , Feng Shu , Zhihong Zhuang , Jiangzhou Wang

A Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) optimization framework for near-field sensing (NISE) with continuous-aperture arrays (CAPAs) is proposed. In contrast to conventional spatially discrete arrays (SPDAs), CAPAs emit electromagnetic (EM) probing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Emerging wireless systems are evolving toward larger, denser, higher-frequency, and more reconfigurable apertures, which motivates the study of continuous-aperture arrays (CAPAs). Unlike conventional spatially discrete arrays (SPDAs), CAPAs…

In this paper we consider the robust secure beamformer design for MISO wiretap channels. Assume that the eavesdroppers' channels are only partially available at the transmitter, we seek to maximize the secrecy rate under the transmit power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Shuai Ma , Mingyi Hong , Enbin Song , Xiangfeng Wang , Dechun Sun

This paper leverages fluid antenna (FA) and rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) to enhance the physical layer security (PLS) of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We consider a practical multi-user multi-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Cixiao Zhang , Yin Xu , Size Peng , Xinghao Guo , Xiaowu Ou , Hanjiang Hong , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

Movable antennas (MAs) represent a novel approach that enables flexible adjustments to antenna positions, effectively altering the channel environment and thereby enhancing the performance of wireless communication systems. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Weijie Xiong , Jingran Lin , Kai Zhong , Liu Yang , Hongli Liu , Qiang Li , Cunhua Pan

Physical layer security (PLS) is an important technology in wireless communication systems to safeguard communication privacy and security between transmitters and legitimate users. The integration of large-scale antenna arrays (LSAA) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Weijie Xiong , Jingran Lin , Zhiling Xiao , Qiang Li

One key metric for physical layer security is the secrecy capacity. This is the maximum rate that a system can transmit with perfect secrecy. For a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system (a newer technology for 5G, 6G and beyond) the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Jennifer Chakravarty , Oliver Johnson , Robert Piechocki

Since the secrecy rate (SR) performance improvement obtained by secure directional modulation (DM) network is limited, an active intelligent reflective surface (IRS)-assisted DM network is considered to attain a high SR. To address the SR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Yifan Zhao , Xiaoyu Wang , Kaibo Zhou , Xuehui Wang , Yan Wang , Wei Gao , Ruiqi Liu , Feng Shu

We propose a low-complexity beamforming (BF) design for information leakage minimization in multi-user (MU) cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems. Our approach leverages fractional programming (FP) to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Iván Alexander Morales Sandoval , Getuar Rexhepi , Kengo Ando , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu

The capacity limits of continuous-aperture array (CAPA)-based wireless communications are characterized. To this end, an analytically tractable transmission framework is established for both uplink and downlink CAPA systems. Based on this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Boqun Zhao , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

Compact Ultramassive Antenna Array (CUMA) is a pioneering paradigm that leverages the flexibility of the Fluid Antenna System (FAS) to enable a simple multiple access scheme for massive connectivity without the need for precoding, power…

We study the problem of securely communicating a sequence of information bits with a client in the presence of multiple adversaries at unknown locations in the environment. We assume that the client and the adversaries are located in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Yagiz Savas , Abolfazl Hashemi , Abraham P. Vinod , Brian M. Sadler , Ufuk Topcu

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

Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising paradigm for safeguarding 6G wireless networks by exploiting the inherent characteristics of wireless channels. However, the efficiency of conventional PLS is often limited by fixed orientation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ailing Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Xingxiang Peng , Qiaoyan Peng , Ziyuan Zheng , Yuxuan Chen , Wen Chen

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 work, we propose a novel beamforming design to enhance physical layer security of a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system with the aid of artificial noise (AN). The proposed design uses two scalars to balance the useful…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Youhong Feng , Shihao Yan , Zhen Yang , Nan Yang , Jinhong Yuan

This paper provides a thorough mathematical analysis of continuous movable antenna (MA) arrays. Focusing on the multiple antenna case, we consider a linear antenna array with multiple fixed antenna elements that moves along a line. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Gayani Siriwardana , Peter J. Smith , Himal A. Suraweera , Rajitha Senanayake

This letter proposes a secure beamforming design for downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems utilizing fluid antenna systems (FAS). We consider a setup where a base station (BS) with $M$ fluid antennas (FAs) communicates to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Lifeng Mai , Junteng Yao , Jie Tang , Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Hyundong Shin , Fumiyuki Adachi

Millimeter wave offers a sensible solution to the capacity crunch faced by 5G wireless communications. This paper comprehensively studies physical layer security in a multi-input single-output (MISO) millimeter wave system where multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Ying Ju , Hui-Ming Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng , Qinye Yin , Moon Ho Lee