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A multiple-waveguide pinching-antenna (PA)-based multi-user communication system is investigated. With a given number of PAs, two deployment strategies are considered, namely the centralized PA deployment, where all PAs are switched between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Mengyu Qian , Xidong Mu , Li You , Michail Matthaiou

Pinching antenna system (PAS) serves as a groundbreaking paradigm that enhances wireless communications by flexibly adjusting the position of pinching antenna (PA) and establishing a strong line-of-sight (LoS) link, thereby reducing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Kunrui Cao , Jingyu Chen , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Lei Zhou , Xingwang Li , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

As an emerging flexible antenna technology for wireless communications, pinching-antenna systems, offer distinct advantages in terms of cost efficiency and deployment flexibility. This paper investigates joint transmission strategies of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Enzhi Zhou , Jingjing Cui , Ziyue Liu , Zhiguo Ding , Pingzhi Fan

This paper investigates a pinching-antenna (PA)-enabled cognitive radio network, where both the primary transmitter (PT) and secondary transmitter (ST) are equipped with a single waveguide and multiple PAs to facilitate simultaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Zeyang Sun , Xidong Mu , Shuai Han , Sai Xu , Michail Matthaiou

This paper adopts the antenna selection technique to enhance the covert rate in a wireless communication network comprised of a source, a destination , an external jammer and an eavesdropper. In the covert communication, the level of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-27 Morteza Sarkheil , Paeiz Azmi , Moslem Forouzesh , Ali Kuhestani

This paper studies physical layer security in a wireless ad hoc network with numerous legitimate transmitter-receiver pairs and eavesdroppers. A hybrid full-/half-duplex receiver deployment strategy is proposed to secure legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Jinhong Yuan , Zhu Han , Moon Ho Lee

The sixth generation of wireless networks envisions intelligent and adaptive environments capable of meeting the demands of emerging applications such as immersive extended reality, advanced healthcare, and the metaverse. However, this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Dimitrios Tyrovolas , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Sotiris Ioannidis , Christos K. Liaskos , George K. Karagiannidis

In this two-part paper, we consider the transmission of confidential data over wireless wiretap channels. The first part presents an information-theoretic problem formulation in which two legitimate partners communicate over a quasi-static…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Matthieu Bloch , Joao Barros , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues , Steven W. McLaughlin

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided jamming technique for enabling physical layer keyless security in scenarios where the exact eavesdropper location is unknown. We assume that the unknown eavesdropper location is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Christantus O. Nnamani , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Mathini Sellathurai

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) improve wireless links by configuring the locations of activated pinching antennas along dielectric waveguides, namely pinching beamforming. In this paper, a novel adjustable power radiation model is proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Xiaoxia Xu , Xidong Mu , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

The evolution toward the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks has flexible reconfigurable antenna architectures capable of adapting their radiation characteristics to the surrounding environment. At the center-stage, while waveguide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Lajos Hanzo

We present an optimized secure multi-antenna transmission approach based on artificial-noise-aided beamforming, with limited feedback from a desired single-antenna receiver. To deal with beamformer quantization errors as well as unknown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Xi Zhang , Matthew R. McKay , Xiangyun Zhou , Robert W. Heath

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

In this paper, we consider a scenario where a source node wishes to broadcast two confidential messages for two respective receivers, while a wire-tapper also receives the transmitted signal. This model is motivated by wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-30 Ghadamali Bagherikaram , Abolfazl S. Motahari , Amir K. Khandani

This paper considers satellite eavesdroppers in uplink satellite communication systems where the eavesdroppers are randomly distributed at arbitrary altitudes according to homogeneous binomial point processes and attempt to overhear signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Dong-Hyun Jung , Joon-Gyu Ryu , Junil Choi

Flexible-antenna systems, such as fluid antennas and movable antennas, have been recognized as key enabling technologies for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, as they can intelligently reconfigure the effective channel gains of the…

With increasing number of antennae in base stations, there is considerable interest in using beamfomining to improve physical layer security, by creating an `exposure region' that enhances the received signal quality for a legitimate user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Yuanrui Zhang , Youngwook Ko , Roger Woods , Alan Marshall

Recent researches show that millimeter wave (mmWave) communications can offer orders of magnitude increases in the cellular capacity. However, the secrecy performance of a mmWave cellular network has not been investigated so far. Leveraging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Chao Wang , Hui-Ming Wang

We show that for a legitimate communication under multipath quasi-static fading with a reduced number of scatterers, it is possible to achieve perfect secrecy even in the presence of a passive eavesdropper for which no channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Pablo Ramírez-Espinosa , R. José Sánchez-Alarcón , F. Javier López-Martínez

This paper examines the impact of emerging fluid antenna systems (FAS) on reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided secure communications. Specifically, we consider a classic wiretap channel, where a fixed-antenna transmitter sends…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Wee Kiat New , Hao Xu