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In this paper, we investigate the robust outage constrained transmission design for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided secure communication system. We assume that a single-antenna legitimate receiver (Bob) served by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Sheng Hong , Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang

In conventional artificial noise (AN)-aided physical-layer security systems, fixed-position antenna (FPA) arrays exhibit inherent vulnerability to coverage gaps due to their static spatial configuration. Adversarial eavesdroppers can…

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

A novel movable antenna (MA)-aided secure transmission framework is proposed to enhance the secrecy transmission rate without relying on the eavesdropper's channel state information. Within this framework, a joint beamforming and jamming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Zhenqiao Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

This work for the first time examines the impact of transmitter-side correlation on the artificial-noise-aided secure transmission, based on which a new power allocation strategy for artificial noise (AN) is devised for physical layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Nan Yang , Biao He , Thushara D. Abhayapala

Pinching-antennas systems (PASS) offer reconfigurable wireless channels via low-cost dielectric mediums by creating line-of-sight (LoS) communication links. Most of the existing PASS cover mechanisms of equal power pinching antennas for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Ishtiaque Ahmed , Leila Musavian

This paper considers a movable antenna (MA)-aided secure multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system consisting of a base station (BS), a legitimate information receiver (IR) and an eavesdropper (Eve), where the BS is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jun Tang , Cunhua Pan , Yang Zhang , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang

This letter considers a fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided secure and covert communication system, where the transmitter adjusts multiple fluid antennas' positions to achieve secure and covert transmission under the threat of an eavesdropper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Junteng Yao , Liangxiao Xin , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Kai-Kit Wong , Chau Yuen , Hyundong Shin

In this paper, we consider the physical layer (PHY) security problem for hybrid wiretapping wireless systems in millimeter wave transmission, where active eavesdroppers (AEs) and passive eavesdroppers (PEs) coexist to intercept the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Bin Qiu , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

Federated learning (FL) over wireless networks is fundamentally constrained by unreliable communication links, particularly when uplink channels suffer from blockage, fading, or weak line-of-sight (LoS) conditions. Pinching-antenna systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Saba Asaad , Hina Tabassum , Ping Wang

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

A pioneering secure transmission scheme is proposed, which harnesses movable antennas (MAs) to optimize antenna positions for augmenting the physical layer security. Particularly, an MA-enabled secure wireless system is considered, where a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Xiaoming She , Chongjun Ouyang , Peng Chen

Non-fixed flexible antenna architectures, such as fluid antenna system (FAS), movable antenna (MA), and pinching antenna, have garnered significant interest in recent years. In this paper, we propose a new rotatable antenna (RA) model to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Beixiong Zheng , Qingjie Wu , Tiantian Ma , Rui Zhang

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

In this paper, we consider a flexible-antenna architecture, referred to as a pinching-antenna (PA) system, in which multiple PAs realized by activating small dielectric particles along a dielectric waveguide are jointly employed to serve a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Zhiguo Ding

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is considered to be a promising technology for future wireless systems due to its ability to provide communication and sensing services using shared hardware and spectrum resources. Moreover, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nemanja Stefan Perović , Keshav Singh , Chih-Peng Li

This paper considers secure energy-efficient routing in the presence of multiple passive eavesdroppers. Previous work in this area has considered secure routing assuming probabilistic or exact knowledge of the location and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Majid Ghaderi , Hossein Pishro-Nik , Dennis Goeckel

An integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) design for pinching antenna systems (PASS) is proposed, where the pinching antennas are deployed to establish reliable line-of-sight communication and sensing links. More particularly, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zheng Zhang , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Bingtao He , Jian Chen , Yuanwei Liu

Millimeter-wave and terahertz communications face a fundamental challenge: overcoming severe path loss without sacrificing spectral efficiency. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) address this by bringing radiators physically close to users,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Dengke Wei , Runxin Zhang , Yulin Shao , Fen Hou , Shaodan Ma

Pinching antennas have recently garnered significant attention due to their ability to dynamically reconfigure wireless propagation environments. Despite notable advancements in this area, the exploration of energy efficiency (EE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ming Zeng , Ji Wang , Gui Zhou , Fang Fang , Xianbin Wang

The pinching-antenna architecture has emerged as a promising solution for reconfiguring wireless propagation environments and enhancing system performance. While prior research has primarily focused on sum-rate maximization or transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Ji Wang , Gaojian Huang , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding