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Physical layer deception (PLD) combines physical layer security (PLS) with deception: the transmitter actively misleads the eavesdropper with falsified information. We model the transmitter-eavesdropper interaction as a Stackelberg game in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Wenwen Chen , Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Anke Schmeink , Giuseppe Caire , Hans D. Schotten

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communications have drawn significant attention recently. We study the physical layer security of the downlink RIS-aided transmission framework for randomly located users in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Qiang Sun , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

We propose a novel attack that compromises the physical layer security of downlink (DL) communications in wireless systems. This technique is based on the transmission of a slowly-varying random symbol by the eavesdropper during its uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Gonzalo J. Anaya-Lopez , Gerardo Gomez , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

Physical layer security (PLS) is critically important for emerging wireless communication networks to maintain the confidentiality of the information of legitimate users. In this paper, we investigate enhancing PLS in an unmanned aerial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Nadisanka Rupasinghe , Yavuz Yapici , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

The intrinsic integration of the nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) techniques is envisioned to be a promising approach to significantly improve both the spectrum efficiency and energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhe Zhang , Chensi Zhang , Chengjun Jiang , Fan Jia , Jianhua Ge , Fengkui Gong

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

A novel Physical Layer Security (PLS) framework is conceived for enhancing the security of the wireless communication systems by exploiting multi-domain polarization in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems. We design a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Luping Xiang , Yao Zeng , Jie Hu , Kun Yang , Lajos Hanzo

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) enables ultra-low-power connectivity by allowing passive backscatter devices (BDs) to convey information through reflection of ambient signals. However, the cascaded AmBC channel suffers from severe…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Riku Jantti , Kai-Kit Wong , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

Traditional physical layer secure beamforming is achieved via precoding before signal transmission using channel state information (CSI). However, imperfect CSI will compromise the performance with imperfect beamforming and potential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Tongyang Xu , Zhongxiang Wei , Tianhua Xu , Gan Zheng

This paper presents a framework for converting wireless signals into structured datasets, which can be fed into machine learning algorithms for the detection of active eavesdropping attacks at the physical layer. More specifically, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Tiep M. Hoang , Trung Q. Duong , Hoang Duong Tuan , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Emi Garcia-Palacios , Long D. Nguyen

In this article, physical layer security (PLS) in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multiple-input multiple-output multiple antenna eavesdropper (MIMOME) system is studied. In particular, we consider a practical scenario…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Chi Zhang , Yiliang Liu , Hsiao-Hwa Chen

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless medium, wireless communication is highly vulnerable to eavesdropping attack. Traditionally, secure wireless data transmission has relied on cryptographic techniques at the network layer which incur…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Binh Van Nguyen , Hyoyoung Jung , Kiseon Kim

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) hold significant promise for enhancing physical layer security (PLS). However, conventional RISs are typically modeled using diagonal scattering matrices, capturing only independent reflections…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Weijie Xiong , Jingran Lin , Cunhua Pan , Yilong Zeng , Qiang Li

The physical-layer security issue in the multiple non-regenerative wireless-powered relay (WPR) networks is investigated in this letter, where the idle relay is treated as a potential eavesdropper. To guarantee secure communication, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Mingxiong Zhao , Xiangfeng Wang , Suili Feng

In this paper, we propose a novel secure random caching scheme for large-scale multi-antenna heterogeneous wireless networks, where the base stations (BSs) deliver randomly cached confidential contents to the legitimate users in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Wanli Wen , Chenxi Liu , Yaru Fu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Fu-Chun Zheng , Shi Jin

In this paper, we study robust beamforming design for near-field physical-layer-security (PLS) systems, where a base station (BS) equipped with an extremely large-scale array (XL-array) serves multiple near-field legitimate users (Bobs) in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Chao Zhou , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Chengwen Xing , Jianhua Zhang

This thesis focuses on the wireless security in the physical layer with beamforming technique. One of the emerging areas is the security enhancement in the physical layer, which exploits the intrinsic properties of the wireless medium.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Yuanrui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a key enabler for providing signal coverage, energy efficiency, reliable communication, and physical layer security (PLS) in next-generation wireless communication networks. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Ahmet Muaz Aktas , Sefa Kayraklik , Sultangali Arzykulov , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev , Ibrahim Hokelek , Ali Gorcin

Physical layer deception (PLD) is a novel security mechanism that combines physical layer security (PLS) with deception technologies to actively defend against eavesdroppers. In this paper, we establish a novel semantic model for PLD that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Anke Schmeink , Giuseppe Caire , Hans D. Schotten

In this paper, we study an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless secure communication system for physical layer security, where an IRS is deployed to adjust its surface reflecting elements to guarantee secure communication of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Liang Xiao , Qingqing Wu