English
Related papers

Related papers: Artificial-Noise-Aided Secure Near-Field MIMO With…

200 papers

Fluid antenna (FA) technology has emerged as a promising approach in wireless communications due to its capability of providing increased degrees of freedom (DoFs) and exceptional design flexibility. This paper addresses the challenge of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 He Xu , Tuo Wu , Ye Tian , Kangda Zhi , Wei Liu , Baiyang Liu , Hing Cheung So , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Kin-Fai Tong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Kai-Kit Wong

Movable antenna (MA)-enabled near-field (NF) communications offer significant potential for 6G, yet existing designs often neglect the practical constraints of hybrid beamforming (HBF) for extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO). Conversely,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xiangqian Xu , Songjie Yang , Arumugam Nallanathan

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical-layer security has attracted increasing concerns from both academia and industry. Artificial noise (AN), as one of the promising physical-layer security techniques, is capable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Hong Niu , Yue Xiao , Xia Lei , Jiangong Chen , Zhihan Xiao , Mao Li , Chau Yuen

In this paper, we design robust beamforming to guarantee the physical layer security for a multiuser beam division multiple access (BDMA) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, when the channel estimation errors are taken…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Fengchao Zhu , Feifei Gao , Hai Lin , Shi Jin , Junhui Zhao

Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmission is a promising technology to improve the capacity and reliability of wireless systems. However, the number of antennas that can be equipped at a base station (BS) is limited by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Abla Kammoun , Mérouane Debbah , and Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The artificial noise (AN) aided multi-beam directional modulation (DM) technology is capable of wireless physical layer secure (PLS) transmissions for multiple desired receivers in free space. The application of AN, however, makes it less…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Qian Cheng , Vincent Fusco , Jiang Zhu , Shilian Wang , Fanggang Wang

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 increase in antenna apertures and transmission frequencies in next-generation wireless networks is catalyzing advancements in near-field communications (NFC). In this paper, we investigate secure transmission in near-field multi-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Zihao Teng , Jiancheng An , Christos Masouros , Hongbin Li , Lu Gan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This paper investigates a multiple input single output (MISO) downlink communication system in which users are equipped with fluid antennas (FAs). First, we adopt a field-response based channel model to characterize the downlink channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Haoran Qin , Wen Chen , Zhendong Li , Qingqing Wu , Nan Cheng , Fangjiong Chen

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

Fluid antennas (FAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have drawn increasing attention in wireless communications recently due to their ability to create favorable channel conditions via local antenna movement within a confined region. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Xin Wei , Weidong Mei , Dong Wang , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

With the development of the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, there is a pressing need for innovative technologies capable of satisfying heightened performance indicators. Fluid antenna system (FAS) is proposed recently as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Yuqi Ye , Li You , Hao Xu , Ahmed Elzanaty , Kai-Kit Wong , Xiqi Gao

In this letter, we study the energy efficiency maximization problem for a fluid antenna system (FAS) in near field communications. Specifically, we consider a point-to-point near-field system where the base station (BS) transmitter has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yixuan Chen , Mingzhe Chen , Hao Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zhaoyang Zhang

Physical layer security has been considered as an important security approach in wireless communications to protect legitimate transmission from passive eavesdroppers. This paper investigates the physical layer security of a wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Wenfei Liu , Ming Li , Xiaowen Tian , Zihuan Wang , Qian Liu

In this paper, we propose a transmission mechanism for fluid antennas (FAs) enabled multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems based on index modulation (IM), named FA-IM, which incorporates the principle of IM into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jing Zhu , Gaojie Chen , Pengyu Gao , Pei Xiao , Zihuai Lin , Atta Quddus

In this paper, we investigate the problem of max-min rate maximization in fluid antenna relay (FAR)-assisted multi-user uplink multiple-input single-output (MISO) wireless systems, where each user is equipped with a single fluid antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Ruopeng Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Ting Zhang , Mingzhe Chen , Chen Zhu , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper advocates a fluid antenna system (FAS)-assisted long-range communication (LoRa-FAS) for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. \textcolor{blue}{In the proposed system, FAS provides spatial diversity gains for LoRa, eliminating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Gaoze Mu , Yanzhao Hou , Kai-Kit Wong , Mingjie Chen , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao , Ping Zhang

This paper investigates the downlink (DL) physical layer security (PLS) in a near-field (NF) extra-large multiple-input multiple-output MIMO (XL-MIMO) system. To enhance the secrecy rate (SR), null-space artificial noise (AN) is transmitted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xiangjun Ma , Ali Arshad Nasir , Daniel Benevides da Costa

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) introduces new degrees of freedom (DoFs) for physical layer security (PLS) through pinching beamforming. In this paper, a couple of scenarios for secure beamforming for PASS are studied. 1) For the case…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

Fluid antenna system (FAS) revolutionizes wireless communications via utilizing position-flexible antennas that dynamically optimize channel conditions and mitigate multipath fading. This innovation is particularly valuable in indoor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Tong Zhang , Qianren Li , Shuai Wang , Wanli Ni , Jiliang Zhang , Rui Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae