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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for enhancing wireless communication systems. It adaptively configures massive passive reflecting elements to control wireless channel in a desirable way. Due to hardware…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Rui Sun , Weidong Wang , Li Chen , Guo Wei , Wenyi Zhang

This paper explores the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in mitigating cross-system interference in spectrum sharing and secure wireless applications. Unlike conventional RIS that can only adjust the phase of the incoming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Fangzhou Wang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The pervasive threat of jamming attacks, particularly from adaptive jammers capable of optimizing their strategies, poses a significant challenge to the security and reliability of wireless communications. This paper addresses this issue by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Xiao Tang , Zhen Ma , Bin Li , Cong Li , Qinghe Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is useful to effectively improve the coverage and data rate of end-to-end communications. In contrast to the well-studied coverage-extension use case, in this paper, multiple RIS panels are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Zhong Zheng , Siqiang Wang , Zesong Fei , Zhi Sun , Jinhong Yuan

We pay our attention towards secure and robust communication in the presence of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-enhanced mobile eavesdropping attacker in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO)wireless networks.Specifically,we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Gaoyuan Zhang , Ruisong Si , Boyuan Li , Zijian Li , Baofeng Ji , Chenqi Zhu , Tony Q. S. Quek

Covert communication conceals the existence of the transmission from a watchful adversary. We consider the fundamental limits for covert communications via packet insertion over packet channels whose packet timings are governed by a renewal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Amir Houmansadr

In this paper, we study an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless secure communication system for physical layer security, where an IRS is deployed to adjust its surface reflecting elements to guarantee secure communication of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Liang Xiao , Qingqing Wu

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

Recently, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), benefited from the breakthrough on the fabrication of programmable meta-material, has been speculated as one of the key enabling technologies for the future six generation (6G)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chongwen Huang , Ronghong Mo , Chau Yuen

There have been recently many studies demonstrating that the performance of wireless communication systems can be significantly improved by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which is an attractive technology due to its low power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Samed Keşir , Sefa Kayraklık , İbrahim Hökelek , Ali Emre Pusane , Ertugrul Basar , Ali Görçin

With the rapid growth of Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), secure and efficient computation offloading from user equipment (UEs) to edge access points (APs) is critical. However, DISCO intelligent reflective surface-based fully-passive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Minghui Min , Peng Zhang , Jiayang Xiao , Ruixin Yang , Shiyin Li , Huan Huang , Hongliang Zhang , Zhu Han

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been envisioned as a key technology in future wireless communication networks to enable smart radio environment. To further enhance the passive beamforming capability of RIS, beyond diagonal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Ziang Liu , Hongyu Li , Bruno Clerckx

This paper investigates a novel unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) secure communication system with the assistance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where an UAV and a ground user communicate with each other, while an eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Li Sixian , Duo Bin , Marco Di Renzo , Tao Meixia , Yuan Xiaojun

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is proposed to enhance the physical layer security in the Rician fading channel where the angular direction of the eavesdropper is aligned with a legitimate user. In this scenario, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Kok Keong Chai , Kai-Kit Wong

Re-configurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) technology is increasingly becoming a potential component for next-generation wireless networks, offering enhanced performance in terms of throughput, spectral, and energy efficiency. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Hala Amin , Waqas Aman , Saif Al-Kuwari

This correspondence investigates a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wireless communication system with security threats. The RIS is deployed to enhance the secrecy outage probability (SOP) of the data sent to a legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Wei Shi , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Marco Di Renzo , Chunming Zhao

This paper considers a cooperative jamming (CJ)-aided secure wireless communication system. Conventionally, the jammer transmits Gaussian noise (GN) to enhance security; however, the GN scheme also degrades the legitimate receiver's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Hao Yang , Hao Xu , Kai Wan , Sijie Zhao , Robert Caiming Qiu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for establishing spectral- and energy-efficient wireless networks. In this paper, we study RIS-enhanced orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communications,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jiancheng An , Chao Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen , Lu Gan , Lajos Hanzo

This work focuses on the use of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) systems to improve communication capacity and sensing precision, and enhance coverage for both functions. In contrast to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Bowen Wang , Hongyu Li , Shanpu Shen , Ziyang Cheng , Bruno Clerckx

In this paper, we examine the physical layer security for cooperative wireless networks with multiple intermediate nodes, where the decode-and-forward (DF) protocol is considered. We propose a new joint relay and jammer selection (JRJS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Haiyan Guo , Zhen Yang , Linghua Zhang , Jia Zhu , Yulong Zou