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With the development of sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication networks, the security challenges are becoming increasingly prominent, especially for mobile users (MUs). As a promising solution, physical layer security (PLS) technology…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Wenxuan Ma , Bin Lin , Hongyang Pan , Geng Sun , Enyu Shi , Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen

A rotatable antenna, which is able to dynamically adjust its deflection angle, is promising to achieve better physical layer security performance for wireless communications. In this paper, considering practical scenarios with non-real-time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pengchuan Jiang , Quanzhong Li , Lifeng Mai , Qi Zhang

Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to flexibly reconfigure wireless channels by adjusting antenna placement. In this paper, we study a dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) system enhanced with movable antennas.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Ran Yang , Zheng Dong , Peng Cheng , Lin Zhang , Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Ning Wei , Chadi Assi

In physical layer security, the channel state information (CSI) of passive eavesdroppers is usually difficult to obtain, which has motivated sensing-aided secure communication (SASC). However, in secure multicast scenarios, conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zequan Wang , Liang Yin , Hao Xu , Yunan Sun , Yitong Liu , Hongwen Yang

In this letter, we investigate a dynamic reconfigurable distributed antenna and reflection surface (RDARS)-driven secure communication system, where the working mode of the RDARS can be flexibly configured. We aim to maximize the secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ziqian Pei , Jintao Wang , Pingping Zhang , Zheng Shi , Guanghua Yang , Shaodan Ma

Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) is regarded as a crucial and powerful physical layer (PHY) paradigm for next-generation communication systems. Particularly, users employ successive interference cancellation (SIC) to decode part of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Cixiao Zhang , Size Peng , Yin Xu , Qingqing Wu , Xiaowu Ou , Xinghao Guo , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

Consider an MISO channel overheard by multiple eavesdroppers. Our goal is to design an artificial noise (AN)-aided transmit strategy, such that the achievable secrecy rate is maximized subject to the sum power constraint. AN-aided secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Qiang Li , Wing-Kin Ma

Unlike conventional fixed-antenna architectures, rotatable antenna (RA) has shown great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance by exploiting additional spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) in a cost-effective manner. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Qi Dai , Beixiong Zheng , Yanhua Tan , Weidong Mei , Shiqi Gong , Jie Tang , Chengwen Xing

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) has become a crucial enabling technology for 5G and beyond, providing previously unheard-of increases in energy and spectrum efficiency. It is still difficult to guarantee secure communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Nipun Agarwal

This paper investigates the physical layer security of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-aided wireless network in the presence of full-duplex active eavesdropping. In this scenario, the RIS cooperates with the Base Station (BS) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Atefeh Zakeri , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

We investigate the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted downlink secure transmission where only the statistical channel of eavesdropper is available. To handle the stochastic ergodic secrecy rate (ESR) maximization problem, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Cen Liu , Chang Tian , Peixi Liu

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 low-altitude wireless communications, the increased complexity of wireless channels and the uncertainty of eavesdroppers (Eves)--caused by diverse altitudes, speeds, and obstacles--pose significant challenges to physical layer security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yujia Zhao , Zhiyong Feng , Kan Yu , Qixun Zhang , Dong Li

Reconfigurable holographic surfaces (RHS) have emerged as a transformative material technology, enabling dynamic control of electromagnetic waves to generate versatile holographic beam patterns. This paper addresses the problem of secrecy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Chandan Kumar Sheemar , Wali Ullah Khan , Marco di Renzo , Asad Mahmood , Jorge Querol , Symeon Chatzinotas

Physical layer security (PLS) technologies are expected to play an important role in the next-generation wireless networks, by providing secure communication to protect critical and sensitive information from illegitimate devices. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yun Wen , Gaojie Chen , Sisai Fang , Zheng Chu , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli

This paper studies an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS)-aided near-field physical layer security (PLS) communication system, aiming to maximize the secrecy rate by jointly optimizing precoding vector at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiaotong Xu , Qian Zhang , Yunxiao Li , Xuejun Cheng , Meihui Liu , Ju Liu

Fluid antennas (FAs) and mobile antennas (MAs) are innovative technologies in wireless communications that are able to proactively improve channel conditions by dynamically adjusting the transmit/receive antenna positions within a given…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Yijie Liu , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can adaptively adjust the phase shifts of its reflecting units to strengthen the desired signal and/or suppress the undesired signal. In this letter, we investigate an IRS-aided secure wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Rui Zhang

Directional modulation and artificial noise (AN)-based methods have been widely employed to achieve physical-layer security (PLS). However, these approaches can only achieve angle-dependent secure transmission. This paper presents an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Bin Qiu , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

This paper investigates the physical-layer security in a Virtual Antenna Array (VAA)-aided Device- to-Device Multicast (D2DM) communication system, where the User Equipments (UEs) who cache the common content will form a VAA system and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xinyue Hu , Yibo Yi , Kun Li , Hongwei Zhang , Caihong Kai