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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

Continuous aperture array (CAPA) is considered a promising technology for 6G networks, offering the potential to fully exploit spatial DoFs and achieve the theoretical limits of channel capacity. This paper investigates the performance gain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

A fundamental two-user PASS-based communication system is considered under three MA schemes, namely non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), frequency division multiple access (FDMA), and time division multiple access (TDMA). For each MA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Qiao Ren , Xidong Mu , Siyu Lin , Yuanwei Liu

A pinching antennas (PAs)-aided integrated sensing and multicast communication framework is proposed. In this framework, the communication performance is measured by the multicast rate considering max-min fairness. Moreover, the sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Xiaohang Yang , Yong Li , Zhiqin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

This work studies the beamforming design in the joint proactive eavesdropping (PE) and target sensing (TS) systems. The base station (BS) wiretaps the information transmitted by the illegal transmitter and sends the waveform for TS. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Qian Dan , Hongjiang Lei , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We propose a new location-based beamforming (LBB) scheme for wiretap channels, where a multi-antenna source communicates with a single-antenna legitimate receiver in the presence of a multi-antenna eavesdropper. We assume that all channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Chenxi Liu , Robert Malaney

This paper investigates secure communications in a near-field multi-functional integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system with an extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAA) equipped at the base station (BS). In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Zixiang Ren , Siyao Zhang , Xinmin Li , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The evolution of wireless communication systems requires flexible, energy-efficient, and cost-effective antenna technologies. Pinching antennas (PAs), which can dynamically control electromagnetic wave propagation through binary activation…

This work investigates the joint learning of pinching antenna (PA) positions and transmit beamforming for PA-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in the low-altitude wireless networks. By freely deploying antenna positions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Jia Guo , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

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

The fluid antenna system (FAS) has emerged as a new physical-layer concept to provide enhanced propagation conditions for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications over conventional fixed arrays. This work focuses on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Wenxuan Sun , Mingjie Shao , Luteng Zhu , Yao Ge , Tong Zhang , Zhi Liu

This paper conducts a comprehensive performance analysis for pinching-antenna systems (PASS) under both orthogonal multiple access (OMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission. Given the cost of waveguides, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Yanyu Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

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

Next-generation communication networks will likely involve the energy-efficient transfer of information and energy over the same wireless channel, for which the physical layer will become more vulnerable to cyber attacks by potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Ali A. Nasir , Hoang D. Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

To achieve a better effect of interference on eavesdropper with an enhanced security, a secure precise jamming (PJ) and communication (SPJC) is proposed and its basic idea is to force the transmit energy of artificial noise (AN) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-01 Feng Shu , Lingling Zhu , Wenlong Cai , Tong Shen , Jinyong Lin , Shuo Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang

One of the key goals of next-generation wireless networks is to adapt to changing conditions and meet the growing demand for reliable, high-capacity communications from emerging applications. Overcoming the limitations of conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Apostolos A. Tegos , Yue Xiao , Sotiris A. Tegos , George K. Karagiannidis , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis

Physical layer security (PLS) is critically important for emerging wireless communication networks to maintain the confidentiality of the information of legitimate users. In this paper, we investigate enhancing PLS in an unmanned aerial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Nadisanka Rupasinghe , Yavuz Yapici , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

The passive electronically scanned array (PESA) is widely used due to its simple structure and low cost. {Its antenna weights have unit modulus and thus, only the weights phases can be controlled. PESA has limited degrees of freedom for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-18 Zhaoyi Xu , Athina P. Petropulu

This letter investigates the integration of pinching-antenna systems (PASS) with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) to ensure their compatibility and to explore the frequency-selective behavior inherent to PASS. First, an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jian Xiao , Ji Wang , Ming Zeng , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis