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We propose and analyze secret key generation using intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless communication networks. To this end, we first formulate the minimum achievable secret key capacity for an IRS acting as a passive…

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Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has emerged as a promising technology for fast wireless data aggregation by harnessing the superposition property of wireless multiple-access channels. This paper investigates a fluid antenna (FA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Deyou Zhang , Sicong Ye , Ming Xiao , Kezhi Wang , Marco Di Renzo , Mikael Skoglund

It is well known that physical-layer key generation methods enable wireless devices to harvest symmetric keys by accessing the randomness offered by the wireless channels. Although two-user key generation is well understood, group…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Rohit Joshi , J. Harshan

The fluid antenna (FA) index modulation (IM)-enabled multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, referred to as FA-IM, significantly enhances spectral efficiency (SE) compared to the conventional FA-assisted MIMO system. To improve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xinghao Guo , Yin Xu , Dazhi He , Cixiao Zhang , Hanjiang Hong , Kai-Kit Wong , Wenjun Zhang , Yiyan Wu

The intrinsic integration of the nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) techniques is envisioned to be a promising approach to significantly improve both the spectrum efficiency and energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhe Zhang , Chensi Zhang , Chengjun Jiang , Fan Jia , Jianhua Ge , Fengkui Gong

The advancement of future large-scale wireless networks necessitates the development of cost-effective and scalable security solutions. Conventional cryptographic methods, due to their computational and key management complexity, are unable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Alireza Nooraiepour , Shaghayegh Vosoughitabar , Chung-Tse Michael Wu , Waheed U. Bajwa , Narayan B. Mandayam

High-precision direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, as a key sensing capability for 6G-enabled applications such as autonomous driving and extended reality, is increasingly dependent on the effective exploitation of spatial degrees of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Ye Tian , Jiaji Ren , Tuo Wu , Wei Liu , Maged Elkashlan , Matthew C. Valenti , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Hing Cheung So

The fluid antenna system (FAS) is a disruptive tech-nology for future wireless communication networks. This paper considers the joint optimization of beamforming matrices and antenna positions for weighted sum rate (WSR) maximization in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Tianyi Liao , Wei Guo , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

The fluid antenna system (FAS) refers to a family of reconfigurable antenna technologies that provide substantial spatial gains within a compact, predefined small space, thereby offering extensive degrees of freedom in the physical layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , David Morales-Jimenez , Hao Jiang , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros , Chan-Byoung Chae

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a decentralized technique, where contrary to traditional centralized approaches, devices perform a model training in a collaborative manner, while preserving data privacy. Despite the existing efforts…

This paper investigates fluid antenna systems (FASs) subject to finite-blocklength (FBL) constraints, motivated by the strict reliability-latency and ultra-massive connectivity requirements of future wireless networks. While FAS performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zhentian Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , David Morales-Jimenez , Hao Jiang , Hao Xu , Christos Masouros , Zaichen Zhang , Chan-Byoung Chae

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

The broadcasting nature of the wireless medium makes exposure to eavesdroppers a potential threat. Physical Layer Security (PLS) has been widely recognized as a promising security measure complementary to encryption. It has recently been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Parastoo Sadeghi , Faycal Bouhafs , Neda Aboutorab , Frank den Hartog

As wireless communication advances toward the 6G era, the demand for ultra-reliable, high-speed, and ubiquitous connectivity is driving the exploration of new degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) in communication systems. Among the key enabling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Jiahe Guo , Songjie Yang , Xiangyu Dong , Jiapan Yang , Junfeng Deng , Zhongpei Zhang , Chau Yuen

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) are emerging as a reconfigurable-aperture technology that expands physical-layer design beyond fixed, rigid antenna geometries. While the \emph{fading diversity} of FASs -- which exploits spatial channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhentian Zhang , Jingyuan Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Jiang , Zaichen Zhang , Hyundong Shin

Fluid antennas (FAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have emerged as promising technologies in wireless communications, which offer the flexibility to improve channel conditions by adjusting transmit/receive antenna positions within a spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Rui Zhang

Massive connectivity with ultra-low latency and high reliability necessitates fundamental advances in future communication networks operating under finite-blocklength (FBL) transmission. Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have emerged as a…

This letter presents an innovative scheme to enhance the communication rate and energy efficiency (EE) of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) by deploying the emerging fluid antenna system (FAS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Nagla Abuzgaia , Abdelhamid Salem , Ahmed Elbarsha

Millions of devices are going to participate in 5G producing a huge space for security threats. The 5G specification goals require rigid and robust security protocol against such threats. Quantum cryptography is a recently emerged term in…

This letter investigates the application of the emerging fluid antenna (FA) technology in multiuser communication systems when side information (SI) is available at the transmitters. In particular, we consider a K-user dirty multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Chan-Byoung Chae , Kin-Fai Tong , Yangyang Zhang