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We investigate the delay limited secrecy capacity of the flat fading channel under two different assumptions on the available transmitter channel state information (CSI). The first scenario assumes perfect prior knowledge of both the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Karim Khalil , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Hesham El Gamal , Moustafa Youssef

Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising technology to secure wireless communications by exploiting the physical properties of the wireless channel. However, the passive nature of PLS creates a significant imbalance between the effort…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wenwen Chen , Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Anke Schmeink , Giuseppe Caire , Hans D. Schotten

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-21 Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

This paper investigates the secrecy performance of satellite networks in short packet communication systems under shadowed Rician fading (SRF). We derive a lower bound on the average achievable secrecy rate in the finite blocklength regime…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Ramin Hashemi , Graciela Corral Briones , Risto Wichman

We investigate the physical layer security over N-wave with diffuse power (NWDP) fading model, which is typically encountered in realistic wireless scenarios in the context of millimeter-wave communications and emerging 5G technologies.…

In this paper, the fading broadcast channel with confidential messages is studied in the presence of statistical quality of service (QoS) constraints in the form of limitations on the buffer length. We employ the effective capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-07 Deli Qiao , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

Free-space optics (FSO)-based satellite communication systems have recently received considerable attention due to their enhanced capacity compared to their radio frequency (RF) counterparts. This paper analyzes the performance of physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Thang V. Nguyen , Thanh V. Pham , Anh T. Pham , Dang T. Ngoc

Wireless networks have become imperative in all areas of human life. As such, one of the most critical concerns in next-generation networks is ensuring the security and privacy of user data/communication. Cryptography has been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Muhammad Sohaib J. Solaija , Hanadi Salman , Huseyin Arslan

This paper considers secure communication over free-space optical (FSO) links suffering from turbulence-induced fading. In particular, we study the average secrecy capacity of applying physical layer security to achieve security in an FSO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Jinxiao Zhu , Yin Chen , Masahide Sasaki

With the completion of standardization of fifth-generation (5G) networks, the researchers have begun visioning sixth-generation (6G) networks that are predicted to be human-centric. Hence, similar to 5G networks, besides high data rate,…

Ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) is one category of service to be provided by next-generation wireless networks. Motivated by increasing security concerns in such networks, this article focuses on physical layer security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Riqing Chen , Chunhui Li , Shihao Yan , Robert Malaney , Jinhong Yuan

In this letter, we analyze the secrecy outage probability (SOP) over fluctuating two-ray fading channels but with a different definition from the one adopted in [5]. Following the new defined SOP, we derive an analytical closed-form…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Hui Zhao , Liang Yang , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper presents a comprehensive physical layer security (PLS) framework for fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided short-packet communications under the variable block-correlation model (VBCM). We consider a downlink wiretap scenario in which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jianchao Zheng , Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Baiyang Liu , Runyu Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Kin-Fai Tong , Sumei Sun

In this paper, we investigate the secrecy performance of stochastic MIMO wireless networks over small-scale $\alpha$-$\mu$ fading channels, where both the legitimate receivers and eavesdroppers are distributed with two independent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Long Kong , Satyanarayana Vuppala , Georges Kaddoum

This paper investigates the impact of realistic propagation conditions on the achievable secrecy performance of multiple-input multiple-output systems in the presence of an eavesdropper. Specifically, we concentrate on the $\kappa$-$\mu$…

This paper investigates the secrecy performance of pinching-antenna systems (PAS) under practical pinching-position activation uncertainty. By dynamically selecting the radiation point along a dielectric waveguide, PAS enables low-cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Saeid Pakravan , Imene Trigui , Wessam Ajib , Wei-Ping Zhu

We evaluate and quantify the joint effect of fading and multiple interferers on the physical-layer (PHY) security of a system consisted of a base-station (BS), a legitimate user, and an eavesdropper. To this end, we present a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Dimitrios S. Karas , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , George K. Karagiannidis

The broadcast channel with confidential messages is a well studied scenario from the theoretical standpoint, but there is still lack of practical schemes able to achieve some fixed level of reliability and security over such a channel. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marco Baldi , Nicola Maturo , Giacomo Ricciutelli , Franco Chiaraluce

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 this letter, some applications of wireless communication systems over $\alpha-\eta-\kappa-\mu$ fading channels are analysed. More specifically, the effective rate and the average of both the detection probability and area under the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Hussien Al-Hmood , H. S. Al-Raweshidy