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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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) integrated into cellular networks face significant challenges from air-to-ground interference. To address this, we propose a downlink UAV communication system that leverages a fluid antenna system (FAS)-…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Ali Reda , Tamer Mekkawy , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Chan-Byoung Chae , Kai-Kit Wong

Cognitive radio is a promising technology to improve spectral efficiency. However, the secure performance of a secondary network achieved by using physical layer security techniques is limited by its transmit power and channel fading. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Yifan Zhou , Fuhui Zhou , Huilin Zhou , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Rose Qingyang Hu

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 explores the near field (NF) covert communication with the aid of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). In particular, the RIS operates in the NF of both the legitimate user and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Atiquzzaman Mondal , Amira Bendaimi , Huseyin Arslan

In this paper, we propose a simultaneous secrecy and covert communications (SSACC) scheme in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided network with a cooperative jammer. The scheme enhances communication security by maximizing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Yanyu Cheng , Yujian Hu , Haoran Liu , Hua Zhong , Wei Wang , Pan Li

Low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) transmission is an important and favorable requirement prevalent in radar and communication systems, especially in transmission links integrated with high power amplifiers. Meanwhile, motivated by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Jinlong Wu , Lixin Li , Wensheng Lin , Wei Liang , Decan Zhao , Zhu Han

This paper investigates the utilization of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RIS (STAR-RIS) in supporting joint physical layer security (PLS) and covert communications (CCs) in a multi-antenna millimeter wave (mmWave) system, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Ang Li , Wenjie Wang , Zhou Su , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang

In this paper, we study the performance of multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication networks over Nakagami-$m$ fading channels. For that purpose, we used accurate closed-form…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Khaled Alshehri , Anas M. Salhab , Ali Arshad Nasir

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to be extensively employed for assisting wireless communications in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. On the other hand, terahertz (THz) enabled intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

Unlike the conventional fully-passive and fully-active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), a hybrid RIS consisting of active and passive reflection units has recently been concerned, which can exploit their integrated advantages to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-27 Yu Yao , Junhao Zhang , Pu Miao , Long Zhang , Gaojie Chen , Feng Shu , Kai-Kit Wong

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been recognized as a promising technique for the sixth generation (6G) of mobile communication networks. The key feature of RIS is to reconfigure the propagation environment via smart signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Abdelhamid Salem , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae

For autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) secure communications, traditional designs based on fixed position antenna (FPA) lack sufficient spatial degrees of freedom (DoF), which leaves the line-of-sight-dominated AAV links vulnerable to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Yingjie Wu , Junshan Luo , Weiyu Chen , Shilian Wang , Fanggang Wang , Haiyang Ding

Future wireless communication systems will evolve toward multi-functional integrated systems to improve spectrum utilization and reduce equipment sizes. A joint radar and communication (JRC) system, which can support simultaneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Hongyang Du , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Jiayi Zhang , Dong In Kim

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is one of the promising techniques for 6G wireless communications, and recently has also been shown to be able to improve secure communications. However, there is a "double fading" effect in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Weigang Lv , Jiale Bai , Qingli Yan , Hui-Ming Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been successfully adopted to enhance the flexibility and robustness of wireless communication networks. And recently, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology has been paid increasing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Mohsen Eskandari , Hailong Huang , Andrey V. Savkin , Wei Ni

Due to their flexible deployment and on-demand mobility, small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are anticipated to be involved in widespread communication applications in the forthcoming fifth-generation (5G) networks. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Hui-Ming Wang , Xu Zhang , Jia-Cheng Jiang

An integration of satellites and terrestrial networks is crucial for enhancing performance of next generation communication systems. However, the networks are hindered by the long-distance path loss and security risks in dense urban…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Chuang Zhang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao , Abbas Jamalipour

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided near-field integrated sensing, communication, and power transfer (ISCPT) framework is proposed. We formulate a robust harvested power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Zahra Rostamikafaki , Francois Chan , Claude D'Amours

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