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This paper considers an unsourced random access (URA) set-up equipped with a passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), where a massive number of unidentified users (only a small fraction of them being active at any given time) are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Mohammad Kazemi , Tolga M. Duman

We study the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over Rayleigh block-fading channels with a receiver equipped with multiple antennas. We propose a slotted structure with multiple stages of orthogonal pilots, each of which is randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Mohammad Kazemi , Tolga M. Duman

In this work, we discuss the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over a Gaussian multiple access channel (GMAC). To address the challenges posed by emerging massive machine-type connectivity, URA reframes multiple access as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zhentian Zhang , Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Jian Dang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros

In this paper, we explore an efficient uncoupled unsourced random access (UURA) scheme for 6G massive communication. UURA is a typical framework of unsourced random access that addresses the problems of codeword detection and message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Feiyan Tian , Xiaoming Chen , Chongwen Huang , Zhaoyang Zhang

The security of any cryptosystem relies on the secrecy of the system's secret keys. Yet, recent experimental work demonstrates that tens of thousands of devices on the Internet use RSA and DSA secrets drawn from a small pool of candidate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-09 Henry Corrigan-Gibbs , Wendy Mu , Dan Boneh , Bryan Ford

In this paper we proposed an authentication technique based on the user cards, to improve the authentication process in systems that allows remote access for the users, and raise the security rate during an exchange of their messages. in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Ibrahim Obeidat , Ahmed AL Arjan , Rula AL Amrat , Rathaa AL Ajmi

Unsourced random-access (U-RA) is a type of grant-free random access with a virtually unlimited number of users, of which only a certain number $K_a$ are active on the same time slot. Users employ exactly the same codebook, and the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

Secure communication is considered with unreliable entanglement assistance, where the adversary may intercept the legitimate receiver's entanglement resource before communication takes place. The communication setting of unreliable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Meir Lederman , Uzi Pereg

In this paper, a novel uncoordinated random access (URA) protocol is presented to address the pressing demand for massive connectivity with low access latency in future massive machine type communication (mMTC) scenarios. The proposed URA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Pengyu Gao , Qu Luo , Jing Zhu , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Chuan Heng Foh

In this paper, we propose a transmission scheme that achieves information theoretic security, without making assumptions on the eavesdropper's channel. This is achieved by a transmitter that deliberately introduces synchronization errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Jason Castiglione , Aleksandar Kavcic

Deep learning draws heavily on the latest progress in semantic communications. The present paper aims to examine the security aspect of this cutting-edge technique from a novel shuffling perspective. Our goal is to improve upon the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Fupei Chen , Liyao Xiang , Haoxiang Sun , Hei Victor Cheng , Kaiming Shen

In this paper, a link adaptation and untrusted relay assignment (LAURA) framework for efficient and reliable wireless cooperative communications with physical layer security is proposed. Using sharp channel codes in different transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-11-21 Hamid Khodakarami , Farshad Lahouti

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) or massive access is a critical scenario in the fifth generation (5G) and the future cellular network. With the surging density of devices from millions to billions, unique pilot allocation becomes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang , Liang Wu , Bingcheng Zhu , Lei Wang

Recently, the physical layer security (PLS) of the communication systems has been shown to be enhanced by using legal receiver's feedback. The present secret key based feedback scheme mainly focuses on producing key from the feedback and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Bin Dai , Linman Yu , Zheng Ma

We consider unsourced random access (uRA) in user-centric cell-free (CF) wireless networks, where random access users send codewords from a common codebook during specifically dedicated random access channel (RACH) slots. The system is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Eleni Gkiouzepi , Burak Çakmak , Manfred Opper , Giuseppe Caire

Researchers in the past have shown that Symmetric key cryptography is generally considered infeasible and public key cryptography, at times, fails to provide sufficient security and integrity to data. In contrast to this prejudice, our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Ananth Vishnu Bhaskar , Ankit Baingane , Ryan Jahnige , Qingquan Zhang , Ting Zhu

In this paper, we propose a novel fully Bayesian approach for the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) massive unsourced random access (URA). The payload of each user device is coded by the sparse regression codes (SPARCs) without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Jia-Cheng Jiang , Hui-Ming Wang

A continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based secure communication system is investigated, where a base station equipped with a CAPA transmits signals to a legitimate user under the existence of an eavesdropper. For improving the secrecy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Jingjing Zhao , Haowen Song , Xidong Mu , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu , Yuanwei Liu

Unsourced random-access (U-RA) is a type of grant-free random access with a virtually unlimited number of users, of which only a certain number $K_a$ are active on the same time slot. Users employ exactly the same codebook, and the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

This paper investigates the physical layer security design of an untrusted relaying network where the source node coexists with a multi-antenna eavesdropper (Eve). While the communication relies on untrustworthy relay nodes to increase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-11 Hamed Bastami , Majid Moradikia , Hamid Behroozi , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Zhigou Ding