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The intrinsic integration of the nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) techniques is envisioned to be a promising approach to significantly improve both the spectrum efficiency and energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhe Zhang , Chensi Zhang , Chengjun Jiang , Fan Jia , Jianhua Ge , Fengkui Gong

Physical layer security (PLS) technologies are expected to play an important role in the next-generation wireless networks, by providing secure communication to protect critical and sensitive information from illegitimate devices. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yun Wen , Gaojie Chen , Sisai Fang , Zheng Chu , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli

In this paper, a novel movable antenna (MA) empowered secure transmission scheme is designed for cell-free symbiotic radio (SR) systems in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve). Specifically, multiple distributed access points (APs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Jiayu Guan , Bin Lyu , Yan Liu , Feng Tian

Passive eavesdropping compromises confidentiality in wireless networks, especially in resource-constrained environments where heavyweight cryptography is impractical. Physical layer security (PLS) exploits channel randomness and spatial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yifan Zhang , Yishan Yang , Riku Jäntti , Zheng Yan , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

In this paper, given the beamforming vector of confidential messages and artificial noise (AN) projection matrix and total power constraint, a power allocation (PA) strategy of maximizing secrecy rate (Max-SR) is proposed for secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Simin Wan , Feng Shu , Jinhui Lu , Guan Gui , Jun Wang , Guiyang Xia , Yijin Zhang , Jun Li , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, we investigate secure transmission in a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system adopting low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs). Artificial noise (AN) is deliberately transmitted simultaneously with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Jun Zhu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, an energy harvesting scheme for a multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) secrecy channel with artificial noise (AN) transmission is investigated. Joint optimization of the transmit beamforming matrix, the AN…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Ning Wang , Sai Huang , Zhongyong Wang , Inkyu Lee

The integration of sensing and communication enables wireless communication systems to serve environment-aware applications. In this paper, we propose to leverage sensing to enhance physical layer security (PLS) in multiuser communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Dongfang Xu , Yiming Xu , Zhiqiang Wei , Shenghui Song , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

We consider a full-duplex (FD) multiuser system where an FD base station (BS) is designed to simultaneously serve both downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) users in the presence of half-duplex eavesdroppers (Eves). The problem is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Hieu V. Nguyen , Octavia A. Dobre , Oh-Soon Shin

Secure ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) has been recently investigated with the fundamental limits of finite block length (FBL) regime in mind. Analysis has revealed that when eavesdroppers outnumber BS antennas or enjoy a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Mohammad Naseri Tehrani , Shahrokh Farahmand

In this paper, we consider the Physical Layer Security(PLS) problem in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) based dual-hop system which consists of multiple users, multiple amplify and forward relays, and an eavesdropper.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Waqas Aman , Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu , Tayyaba Jabeen , Feifei Gao , Shi Jin

This paper investigates intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) visible light communication (VLC) networks utilizing the rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) scheme. {In these networks,} an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yangbo Guo , Jianhui Fan , Ruichen Zhang , Baofang Chang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim

The secure transmission of confidential information in cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communication networks is vitally important for user's personal safety. However, for C-V2X there have not been much studies on the physical layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Chao Wang , Zan Li , Gen Xiang Xia , Jia Shi , Jiangbo Si , Yulong Zou

In this paper, we study robust beamforming design for near-field physical-layer-security (PLS) systems, where a base station (BS) equipped with an extremely large-scale array (XL-array) serves multiple near-field legitimate users (Bobs) in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Chao Zhou , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Chengwen Xing , Jianhua Zhang

Physical layer security (PLS) technology based on the fixed-position antenna (FPA) has {attracted widespread attention}. Due to the fixed feature of the antennas, current FPA-based PLS schemes cannot fully utilize the spatial degree of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhiyong Feng , Yujia Zhao , Kan Yu , Dong Li

Due to great efficiency improvement in resource and hardware space, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has gained much attention. In the paper, the physical layer security (PLS) of ISAC system under communication eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tian Zhang , Zhirong Su , Yueyi Dong

In this paper, we study using Destination Artificial Noise (DAN) besides Source Artificial Noise (SAN) to enhance physical layer secrecy with an outage probability based approach. It is assumed that all nodes in the network (i.e. source,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Ali Rahmanpour , Vahid T. Vakili , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

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

We investigate the achievable secrecy sum-rate in a multi-user XL-MIMO system, on which user distances to the base station become comparable to the antenna array dimensions. We show that the consideration of spherical-wavefront propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Gonzalo J. Anaya-Lopez , Jose P. Gonzalez-Coma , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

This work studies near-field secure communications through transmit beamfocusing. We examine the benefit of having a protected eavesdropper-free zone around the legitimate receiver, and we determine the worst-case secrecy performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Cen Liu , Xiangyun Zhou , Nan Yang , Salman Durrani , A. Lee Swindlehurst