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Does Federated Learning (FL) work when both uplink and downlink communications have errors? How much communication noise can FL handle and what is its impact to the learning performance? This work is devoted to answering these practically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Xizixiang Wei , Cong Shen

In this paper we provide secrecy metrics applicable to physical-layer coding techniques with finite blocklengths over Gaussian and fading wiretap channel models. Our metrics go beyond some of the known practical secrecy measures, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Willie K. Harrison , Dinis Sarmento , João P. Vilela , Marco Gomes

We investigate the secrecy performance of an underlay small-cell cognitive radio network under unreliable backhaul connections. The small-cell network shares the same spectrum with the primary network, ensuring that a desired outage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Jinghua Zhang , Chinmoy Kundu , Octavia A. Dobre , Emi Garcia-Palacios , Nguyen-Son Vo

We consider the multi-antenna wiretap channel in which the transmitter wishes to send a confidential message to its receiver while keeping it secret to the eavesdropper. It has been known that the secrecy capacity of such a channel does not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mari Kobayashi , Pablo Piantanida , Sheng Yang , Shlomo Shamai

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

Free-space optical (FSO) channel offers line-of-sight wireless communication with high data rates and high secrecy utilizing unlicensed optical spectrum and also paves the way to the solution of the last-mile access problem. Since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Noor Ahmed Sarker , A. S. M. Badrudduza , Milton Kumar Kundu , Imran Shafique Ansari

Extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays) have emerged as a promising technology to improve the spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution of future wireless systems. Different from existing works that mostly considered physical layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Tianyu Liu , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Yunpu Zhang , Shiqi Gong , Heng Liu , Guangchi Zhang

This paper proposes a robust beamforming scheme to enhance the physical layer security (PLS) of multicast transmission in a cognitive satellite and aerial network (CSAN) operating in the millimeter wave frequency band. Based on imperfect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-14 Bai Zhao , Min Lin , Ming Cheng , Wei-Ping Zhu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This letter studies parallel independent Gaussian channels with uncertain eavesdropper channel state information (CSI). Firstly, we evaluate the probability of zero secrecy rate in this system for (i) given instantaneous channel conditions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Siddhartha Sarma , Kundan Kandhway , Joy Kuri

A simple approximation for the secrecy outage probability (SOP) over generalized-K fading channels is developed. This approximation becomes tighter as the average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the wiretap channel decreases. Based on this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Hui Zhao , Yuanwei Liu , Ahemd Sultan-Salem , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Error performance of noncoherent detection of on-off frequency shift keying (OOFSK) modulation over fading channels is analyzed when the receiver is equipped with multiple antennas. The analysis is conducted for two cases: 1) the case in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-23 Mustafa Cenk Gursoy , Qingyun Wang

We propose an optimal destination scheduling scheme to improve the physical layer security (PLS) of a power-line communication (PLC) based Internet-of-Things system in the presence of an eavesdropper. We consider a pinhole (PH) architecture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Chinmoy Kundu , Ankit Dubey , Andrea M. Tonello , Arumugam Nallanathan , Mark F. Flanagan

We analyze physical-layer security based on the premise that the coding mechanism for secrecy over noisy channels is tied to the notion of channel resolvability. Instead of considering capacity-based constructions, which associate to each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-09 Matthieu R. Bloch , J. Nicholas Laneman

One key metric for physical layer security is the secrecy capacity. This is the maximum rate that a system can transmit with perfect secrecy. For a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system (a newer technology for 5G, 6G and beyond) the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Jennifer Chakravarty , Oliver Johnson , Robert Piechocki

This paper introduces a new approach to physical layer security (PLS) by leveraging power amplifier (PA) nonlinear distortion through distortion-aware precoding. While some conventional PLS techniques inject artificial noise orthogonal to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Reza Ghasemi Alavicheh , Thomas Feys , MD Arifur Rahman , François Rottenberg

The wiretap channel is a well-studied problem in the physical layer security literature. Although it is proven that the decoding error probability and information leakage can be made arbitrarily small in the asymptotic regime, further…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Daniel Seifert , Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer

The noncoherent capacity of stationary discrete-time fading channels is known to be very sensitive to the fine details of the channel model. More specifically, the measure of the support of the fading-process power spectral density (PSD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-29 Giuseppe Durisi , Veniamin I. Morgenshtern , Helmut Bölcskei

In cognitive radio systems, employing sensing-based spectrum access strategies, secondary users are required to perform channel sensing in order to detect the activities of primary users. In realistic scenarios, channel sensing occurs with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-11 Sami Akin , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

This paper investigates the impact of deploying the fluid antenna system (FAS) on the performance of covert communications. In particular, we focus on a scenario where a transmitter seeks to covertly communicate with a receiver, while a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Masoud Kaveh , Riku Jantti , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

We study the outage probability of opportunistic relay selection in decode-and-forward relaying with secrecy constraints. We derive the closed-form expression for the outage probability. Based on the analytical result, the asymptotic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-16 Xiaojun Sun , Chunming Zhao