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Recently, Physical Layer Authentication (PLA) has attracted much attention since it takes advantage of the channel randomness nature of transmission media to achieve communication confidentiality and authentication. In the complex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Rui Meng , Xiaodong Xu , Bizhu Wang , Hao Sun , Shida Xia , Shujun Han , Ping Zhang

This letter proposes a new physical layer authentication mechanism operating at the physical layer of a communication system where the receiver has partial control of the channel conditions (e.g., using an intelligent reflecting surface).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Laura Crosara , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Stefano Tomasin

The future 6G-enabled IoT will facilitate seamless global connectivity among ubiquitous wireless devices, but this advancement also introduces heightened security risks such as spoofing attacks. Physical-Layer Authentication (PLA) has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Rui Meng , Fangzhou Zhu , Xiqi Cheng , Xiaodong Xu , Bizhu Wang , Chen Dong , Bingxuan Xu , Xiaofeng Tao , Ping Zhang

Tag-based physical layer authentication (PLA) has garnered significant attention due to its low complexity and enhanced security. However, existing PLA schemes encounter two challenges. First, unintended user interference, which overlaps…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Lei Yao , Boxiang He , Shilian Wang , Ning Xie

The goal of physical layer security (PLS) is to make use of the properties of the physical layer, including the wireless communication medium and the transceiver hardware, to enable critical aspects of secure communications. In particular,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Mahdi Shakiba-Herfeh , Arsenia Chorti , H. Vince Poor

Wireless data communications are always facing the risk of eavesdropping and interception. Conventional protection solutions which are based on encryption may not always be practical as is the case for wireless IoT networks or may soon…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Faycal Bouhafs , Neda Aboutorab , Parastoo Sadeghi , Frank den Hartog

Authentication is a key element of security, by which a receiver confirms the sender identity of a message. Typical approaches include either key-based authentication at the application layer or physical layer authentication (PLA), where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Stefano Tomasin

The wireless medium contains domain-specific information that can be used to complement and enhance traditional security mechanisms. In this paper we propose ways to exploit the fact that, in a typically rich scattering environment, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-07-29 Liang Xiao , Larry Greenstein , Narayan Mandayam , Wade Trappe

The rise of wireless technologies has made the Internet of Things (IoT) ubiquitous, but the broadcast nature of wireless communications exposes IoT to authentication risks. Physical layer authentication (PLA) offers a promising solution by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yijia Guo , Junqing Zhang , Yao-Win Peter Hong , Stefano Tomasin

Backscattering tag-to-tag networks (BTTNs) are emerging passive radio frequency identification (RFID) systems that facilitate direct communication between tags using an external RF field and play a pivotal role in ubiquitous Internet of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Yifan Zhang , Zheng Yan , Riku Jäntti

Physical layer security is a field of study that continues to gain importance over time. It encompasses a range of algorithms applicable to various aspects of communication systems. While research in the physical layer has predominantly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Pol Henarejos , Ana I. Pérez-Neira

The security of wireless challenge-response Physical Layer Authentication (PLA) based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) relies on a sufficiently random fading channel condition, which is commonly assumed in existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haiyun Liu , Shangqing Zhao , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

In physical layer authentication (PLA) mechanisms, a verifier decides whether a received message has been transmitted by a legitimate user or an intruder, according to some features of the physical channel over which the message traveled.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Francesco Ardizzon , Stefano Tomasin

This paper studies the problem of Person Re-Identification (ReID)for large-scale applications. Recent research efforts have been devoted to building complicated part models, which introduce considerably high computational cost and memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Zhen Li , Hanyang Shao , Nian Xue , Liang Niu , LiangLiang Cao

Lightweight and low latency security schemes at the physical layer that have recently attracted a lot of attention include: (i) physical unclonable functions (PUFs), (ii) localization based authentication, and, (iii) secret key generation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Miroslav Mitev , Mahdi Shekiba-Herfeh , Arsenia Chorti , Martin Reed

The wireless medium contains domain-specific information that can be used to complement and enhance traditional security mechanisms. In this paper we propose ways to exploit the spatial variability of the radio channel response in a rich…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Liang Xiao , Larry Greenstein , Narayan Mandayam , Wade Trappe

We present a novel cross layer approach to random access (RA) that combines physical-layer network coding (PLNC) with multiuser detection (MUD). PLNC and MUD are applied jointly at the physical level in order to extract any linear…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Giuseppe Cocco , Stephan Pfletschinger , Monica Navarro

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

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

In this paper, we propose a polar coding based scheme for set reconciliation between two network nodes. The system is modeled as a well-known Slepian-Wolf setting induced by a fixed number of deletions. The set reconciliation process is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Ling Liu , Shengli Zhang , Cong Ling