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We consider a wiretap channel with an eavesdropper (Eve) and an honest but curious relay (Ray). Ray and the destination (Bob) are full-duplex (FD) devices. Since we aim at not revealing information on the secret message to the relay, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Stefano Tomasin

Wireless information surveillance, by which suspicious wireless communications are closely monitored by legitimate agencies, is an integral part of national security. To enhance the information surveillance capability, we propose in this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this paper we propose a method for defending against an eavesdropper that uses a Deep Neural Network (DNN) for learning the modulation of wireless communication signals. Our method is based on manipulating the emitted waveform with the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Dimitrios Varkatzas , Antonios Argyriou

The growing need for reliable communication over untrusted networks has caused a renewed interest in adversarial channel models, which often behave much differently than traditional stochastic channel models. Of particular practical use is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Vinayak Suresh , Eric Ruzomberka , David J. Love

A subset of Human Activity Classification (HAC) systems are based on AI algorithms that use passively collected wireless signals. This paper presents the micro-Doppler attack targeting HAC from wireless orthogonal frequency division…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Margarita Loupa , Antonios Argyriou , Yanwei Liu

We consider an echo-assisted communication model wherein block-coded messages, when transmitted across several frames, reach the destination as multiple noisy copies. We address adversarial attacks on such models wherein a subset of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Mohit Goyal , J. Harshan

The advancements in Automatic Modulation Classification (AMC) have propelled the development of signal sensing and identification technologies in non-cooperative communication scenarios but also enable eavesdroppers to effectively intercept…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Tailai Wen , Da Ke , Xiang Wang , Zhitao Huang

This paper presents further insights into a recently developed round-trip communication scheme called ``Secret-message Transmission by Echoing Encrypted Probes (STEEP)''. A legitimate wireless channel between a multi-antenna user (Alice)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yingbo Hua , Md Saydur Rahman

We propose a novel covert communication system in which a ground user, Alice, transmits unauthorized message fragments to Bob, a low-Earth orbit satellite (LEO), and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) warden (Willie) attempts to detect these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Pei Peng , Xianfu Chen , Tianheng Xu , Celimuge Wu , Yulong Zou , Qiang Ni , Emina Soljanin

We study oblivious transfer (OT) between Alice and Bob in the presence of an eavesdropper Eve over a degraded wiretapped binary erasure channel from Alice to Bob and Eve. In addition to the privacy goals of oblivious transfer between Alice…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Manoj Mishra , Bikash Kumar Dey , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Suhas Diggavi

This paper tackles the fundamental passive eavesdropping problem in modern wireless communications in which the location and the channel state information (CSI) of the attackers are unknown. In this regard, we propose deploying an unmanned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Ali Behfarnia , Vuk Marojevic

In this paper, we study a cell-free multiple-input multiple-output network equipped with integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) access points (APs). The distributed APs are used to jointly serve the communication needs of user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Steven Rivetti , Emil Bjornson , Mikael Skoglund

In this paper, we investigate covert communication over millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies. In particular, a mmWave transmitter, referred to as Alice, attempts to reliably communicate to a receiver, referred to as Bob, while hiding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

This paper examines the properties of the lower and upper bounds established by Maurer, Ahlswede and Csiszar (MAC) for secret-key capacity in the case of channel probing over single-input and single-output (SISO) channels. Inspired by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yingbo Hua

This paper consider a new secure communication scene where a full-duplex transmitter (Alan) need to transmit confidential information to a half-duplex receiver (Bob), with a silent eavesdropper (Eve) that tries to eavesdrop the confidential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Xinyue Hu , Caihong Kai , Shengli Zhang , Zhongyi Guo , Jun Gao

This paper make an investigation of a secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided communication network based on directional modulation(DM), in which one ground base station (Alice), one legitimate full-duplex (FD) user (Bob) and one illegal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Feng Shu , Zaoyu Lu , Shuo Zhang , Jin Wang , Xiaobo Zhou , Linlin Sun , Jinhui Lu , Jinyong Lin , Wenlong Cai

In elaborating on the multiple-photon absorption attack on Ekert protocol proposed in arXiv:1011.4740, we show that it can be used in other entanglement-based protocols, in particular the BBM92 protocol. In this attack, the eavesdropper…

This letter studies an emerging wireless communication intervention problem at the physical layer, where a legitimate spoofer aims to spoof a malicious link from Alice to Bob, by replacing Alice's transmitted source message with its target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

Wi-Fi signals can be exploited by adversaries as a sensing side channel to eavesdrop on physical information. By monitoring propagation effects of radio waves within the victim's environment, attackers can remotely infer sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Johannes Kortz , Paul Staat , Christof Paar , Christian Zenger

Cryptanalysis is an important branch in the study of cryptography, including both the classical cryptography and the quantum one. In this paper we analyze the security of two three-party quantum key distribution protocols (QKDPs) proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-21 Fei Gao , Su-Juan Qin , Fen-Zhuo Guo , Qiao-Yan Wen