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Passive eavesdropping compromises confidentiality in wireless networks, especially in resource-constrained environments where heavyweight cryptography is impractical. Physical layer security (PLS) exploits channel randomness and spatial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yifan Zhang , Yishan Yang , Riku Jäntti , Zheng Yan , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Securing wireless communication, being inherently vulnerable to eavesdropping and jamming attacks, becomes more challenging in resource-constrained networks like Internet-of-Things. Towards this, physical layer security (PLS) has gained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Bhawna Ahuja , Deepak Mishra , Ranjan Bose

This work studies the beamforming design in the joint proactive eavesdropping (PE) and target sensing (TS) systems. The base station (BS) wiretaps the information transmitted by the illegal transmitter and sends the waveform for TS. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Qian Dan , Hongjiang Lei , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Utilization of inter-base station cooperation for information processing has shown great potential in enhancing the overall quality of communication services (QoS) in wireless communication networks. Nevertheless, such cooperations require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xingdi Chen , Yu Xiong , Kai Yang

This paper studies a robust design problem for far-field line-of-sight (LOS) channels where phase errors are present. Compared with the commonly used additive error model, the phase error model is more suitable for capturing the uncertainty…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Man-Chung Yue , Sissi Xiaoxiao Wu , Anthony Man-Cho So

In millimeter-wave (mmWave) cellular systems, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are foreseeably deployed with a large number of reflecting elements to achieve high beamforming gains. The large-sized RIS will make radio links fall…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Baojia Luo , Yili Deng , Miaomiao Dong , Zhongyi Huang , Xiang Chen , Wei Han , Bo Bai

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

Due to great efficiency improvement in resource and hardware space, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has gained much attention. In the paper, the physical layer security (PLS) of ISAC system under communication eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tian Zhang , Zhirong Su , Yueyi Dong

We investigate an uplink MIMO-OFDM localization scenario where a legitimate base station (BS) aims to localize a user equipment (UE) using pilot signals transmitted by the UE, while an unauthorized BS attempts to localize the UE by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Yuchen Zhang , Hui Chen , Musa Furkan Keskin , Alireza Pourafzal , Pinjun Zheng , Henk Wymeersch , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

We consider a full-duplex (FD) multiuser system where an FD base station (BS) is designed to simultaneously serve both downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) users in the presence of half-duplex eavesdroppers (Eves). The problem is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Hieu V. Nguyen , Octavia A. Dobre , Oh-Soon Shin

This paper tackles the fundamental passive eavesdropping problem in modern wireless communications in which the location and the channel state information (CSI) of the attackers are unknown. In this regard, we propose deploying an unmanned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Ali Behfarnia , Vuk Marojevic

The impacts of channel estimation errors, inter-cell interference, phase adjustment cost, and computation cost on an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted system are severe in practice but have been ignored for simplicity in most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Yuhang Jia , Ying Cui , Wuyang Jiang

Advancements in 6G wireless technology have elevated the importance of beamforming, especially for attaining ultra-high data rates via millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency deployment. Although promising, mmWave bands require substantial beam…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Avi Deb Raha , Kitae Kim , Apurba Adhikary , Mrityunjoy Gain , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

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 recently been regarded as an emerging technique to complement and improve the communication security in future wireless networks. The current research and development in physical layer security is often based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou

This paper investigates secure communications in a near-field multi-functional integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system with an extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAA) equipped at the base station (BS). In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Zixiang Ren , Siyao Zhang , Xinmin Li , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This paper studies the beamforming design problem of a multi-user downlink network, assuming imperfect channel state information known to the base station. In this scenario, the base station is equipped with multiple antennas, and each user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Pu Zhao , Meng Zhang , Hui Yu , Hanwen Luo , Wen Chen

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

In this paper, a cognitive relay channel is considered, and amplify-and-forward (AF) relay beamforming designs in the presence of an eavesdropper and a primary user are studied. Our objective is to optimize the performance of the cognitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-01 Junwei Zhang , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

This paper considers unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-carried intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) for secure data collection in wireless sensor networks. An eavesdropper (Eve) lurks within the vicinity of the main receiver (Bob) while several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Christantus O. Nnamani , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Mathini Sellathurai