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Secure communications can be impeded by eavesdroppers in conventional relay systems. This paper proposes cooperative jamming strategies for two-hop relay networks where the eavesdropper can wiretap the relay channels in both hops. In these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Jing Huang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

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

This article investigates secure multicast communications in pinching-antenna systems (PASS), where pinching beamforming is enabled by adaptively adjusting pinching antenna (PAs) positions along waveguides to improve multicast security.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

We consider the problem of secure communication with multi-antenna transmission in fading channels. The transmitter simultaneously transmits an information bearing signal to the intended receiver and artificial noise to the eavesdroppers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay

In complex urban environments, dynamic obstacles and multipath effects lead to significant link attenuation and pervasive coverage blind spots. Conventional approaches based on large-scale fixed antenna arrays and UAV trajectory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Kan Yu , Kaixuan Li , Xiaowu Liu , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

A novel frequency diverse array (FDA)-assisted secure transmission framework is proposed, which leverages additional frequency offsets to enhance physical layer security. Specifically, an FDA-assisted wiretap channel is considered, where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Zhenqiao Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

This paper investigates an innovative movable antenna (MA)-enhanced multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system designed to enhance communication performance. We aim to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) under statistical channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xintai Chen , Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Wenjun Zhang

Conventional beamforming with fixed-position antenna (FPA) arrays has a fundamental trade-off between maximizing the signal power (array gain) over a desired direction and simultaneously minimizing the interference power over undesired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Rui Zhang

Unlike conventional anti-eavesdropping methods that always require additional energy or computing resources (e.g., in friendly jamming and cryptography-based solutions), this work proposes a novel anti-eavesdropping solution that comes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Nguyen Van Huynh , Nguyen Quang Hieu , Nam H. Chu , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Eryk Dutkiewicz

This letter focuses on the secure transmission for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) systems, in which a base station (BS) communicates with its destination via an IRS, in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Jingping Qiao , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we propose a cooperative approach to improve the security of both primary and secondary systems in cognitive radio multicast communications. During their access to the frequency spectrum licensed to the primary users, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong , Oh-Soon Shin , Arumugam Nallanathan , George K. Karagiannidis

Due to the ultra-dense constellation, efficient beam coverage and interference mitigation are crucial to low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems, while the conventional directional antennas and fixed-position antenna (FPA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Lipeng Zhu , Xiangyu Pi , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

This study investigates subarray-level movable antenna (MA) architecture for multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) systems. Unlike conventional systems with fixed-position antennas (FPAs), the proposed scheme harnesses the additional positional degrees…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Shanshan Zhang , Songjie Yang , Wenxuan Zhang , Youzhi Xiong , Siya Yao

Unlike conventional fixed-antenna architectures, rotatable antenna (RA) has shown great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance by exploiting additional spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) in a cost-effective manner. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Qi Dai , Beixiong Zheng , Yanhua Tan , Weidong Mei , Shiqi Gong , Jie Tang , Chengwen Xing

Movable antennas (MAs), which can be swiftly repositioned within a defined region, offer a promising solution to the limitations of fixed-position antennas (FPAs) in adapting to spatial variations in wireless channels, thereby improving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Ziyuan Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Guojie Hu

The recently emerged movable antenna (MA) shows great promise in leveraging spatial degrees of freedom to enhance the performance of wireless systems. However, resource allocation in MA-aided systems faces challenges due to the nonconvex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Yichen Jin , Qingfeng Lin , Yang Li , Hancheng Zhu , Bingyang Cheng , Yik-Chung Wu , Rui Zhang

Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance wireless communication performance by enabling the local movement of antennas at the transmitter (Tx) and/or receiver (Rx) for achieving more favorable channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

Movable antennas (MAs), traditionally explored in antenna design, have recently garnered significant attention in wireless communications due to their ability to dynamically adjust the antenna positions to changes in the propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Boyu Ning , Songjie Yang , Yafei Wu , Peilan Wang , Weidong Mei , Chau Yuen , Emil Björnson

As next-generation wireless networks emerge, security is becoming a critical performance metric. However, conventional multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems often suffer from severe path loss and are vulnerable to nearby…

Communication in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band has recently been proposed to enable giga-bit-per-second data rates for next generation wireless systems. Physical layer security techniques have emerged as a simple and yet effective way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Rohith Talwar , Nancy Amala , George Medina , Akshadeep Singh Jida , Mohammed E. Eltayeb