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This paper studies physical-layer secure transmissions from a transmitter to a legitimate receiver against an eavesdropper over slow fading channels, taking into account the impact of finite blocklength secrecy coding. A comprehensive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

The secrecy performance in both near-field and far-field communications is analyzed using two fundamental metrics: the secrecy capacity under a power constraint and the minimum power requirement to achieve a specified secrecy rate target.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Boqun Zhao , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

In this paper, we analyze the secrecy outage performance for more realistic eavesdropping scenario of free-space optical (FSO) communications, where the main and wiretap links are correlated. The FSO fading channels are modeled by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Yun Ai , Aashish Mathur , Long Kong , Michael Cheffena

In this paper, the physical layer security aspects of a wireless framework over {\alpha}-\k{appa}-{\mu} shadowed (AKMS) fading channel are examined by acquiring closed-form novel expressions of average secrecy capacity, secure outage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-06 A. S. M. Badrudduza , S. H. Islam , M. K. Kundu , I. S. Ansari

In this paper, the secrecy analysis of physical layer when both the main and wiretap channels undergo $\kappa-\mu$ shadowed fading channel is investigated. In particular, the average secrecy capacity (ASC), secure outage probability (SOP),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Hussien Al-Hmood , H. S. Al-Raweshidy

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) has become a crucial enabling technology for 5G and beyond, providing previously unheard-of increases in energy and spectrum efficiency. It is still difficult to guarantee secure communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Nipun Agarwal

In this paper, the delay limited secrecy capacity of the flat fading channel is investigated under two different assumptions on the available transmitter channel state information (CSI). The first scenario assumes perfect prior knowledge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Karim Khalil , Moustafa Youssef , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Hesham El Gamal

Ensuring the physical layer security (PHY-security) of millimeter wave (mmWave) communications is one of the key factors for the success of 5G. Recent field measurements show that conventional fading models cannot accurately model the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Wen Zeng , Jiayi Zhang , Shuaifei Chen , Kostas P. Peppas , Bo Ai

This paper presents a secrecy performance study of a wiretap communication system with finite blocklength (FBL) transmissions over Rayleigh fading channels, based on the definition of an average information leakage (AIL) metric. We evaluate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Xiangyun Zhou , Nan Yang , A. Lee Swindlehurst , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we investigate the performance of physical-layer security of a pinching-antenna system on a lossless dielectric waveguide. In particular, the system uses a single pinching-antenna to convey confidential information from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Osamah S. Badarneh , Hugerles S. Silva , Yazan H. Al Badarneh

We consider a system where an agent (Alice) aims at transmitting a message to a second agent (Bob) over a set of parallel channels, while keeping it secret from a third agent (Eve) by using physical layer security techniques. We assume that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Marco Baldi , Marco Bianchi , Franco Chiaraluce , Nicola Laurenti , Stefano Tomasin , Francesco Renna

In this letter, the secrecy performance of a mixed free space optics (FSO) and radio frequency (RF) system is analyzed from physical layer security (PHY) perspective. In this scenario, one or more eavesdroppers are trying to intercept the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Dipti R. Pattanayak , Vivek K. Dwivedi , Vikram Karwal , Imran Shafique Ansari , Hongjiang Lei , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The broadcasting nature of the wireless medium makes exposure to eavesdroppers a potential threat. Physical Layer Security (PLS) has been widely recognized as a promising security measure complementary to encryption. It has recently been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Parastoo Sadeghi , Faycal Bouhafs , Neda Aboutorab , Frank den Hartog

This paper deals with the secrecy capacity of the radio channel in interference-limited regime. We assume that interferers are uniformly scattered over the network area according to a Point Poisson Process and the channel model consists of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Hirley Alves , Carlos H. M. de Lima , Pedro. H. J. Nardelli , Richard Demo Souza , Matti Latva-aho

In this paper, the performance of signaling strategies with high peak-to-average power ratio is analyzed in both coherent and noncoherent fading channels. Two recently proposed modulation schemes, namely on-off binary phase-shift keying and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

In low-altitude wireless communications, the increased complexity of wireless channels and the uncertainty of eavesdroppers (Eves)--caused by diverse altitudes, speeds, and obstacles--pose significant challenges to physical layer security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yujia Zhao , Zhiyong Feng , Kan Yu , Qixun Zhang , Dong Li

Through ordinary transmissions over wireless multicast networks are greatly hampered due to the simultaneous presence of fading and shadowing of wireless channels, secure transmissions can be enhanced by properly exploiting random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 S. M. S. Shahriyer , A. S. M. Badrudduza , S. Shabab , M. K. Kundu , H. Yu

This paper investigates the physical-layer security for an indoor visible light communication (VLC) network consisting of a transmitter, a legitimate receiver and an eavesdropper. Both the main channel and the wiretapping channel have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jin-Yuan Wang , Cheng Liu , Jun-Bo Wang , Yongpeng Wu , Min Lin , Julian Cheng

This paper studies the physical layer security of a vehicular communication network in the presence of interference constraints by analysing its secrecy capacity. The system considers a legitimate receiver node and an eavesdropper node,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Abubakar U. Makarfi , Rupak Kharel , Khaled M. Rabie , Omprakash Kaiwartya , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev

Security has emerged as one of the critical requirements in future wireless networks. Unlike traditional cryptography-based security, physical layer security (PLS) exploits various features of the random wireless channel to secure not only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Abuu. B. Kihero , Haji. M. Furqan , M. M. Sahin , Huseyin Arslan