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Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical layer security has always been a fundamental but challenging problem. Recent advance of Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) introduces a new dimension for secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Jian Li , Lan Zhang , Kaiping Xue , Yuguang Fang

In this paper, we investigate physical layer security (PLS) for full-duplex (FD) multi-user systems. We consider a base station (BS) that operates in FD mode and transmits artificial noise (AN) to simultaneously protect uplink (UL) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Bingli Jiao

We propose a new security framework for physical layer security (PLS) in the finite blocklength (FBL) regime that incorporates deception technology, allowing for active countermeasures against potential eavesdroppers. Using a symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Anke Schmeink , Hans D. Schotten

In this paper, we consider the physical layer security of an RIS-assisted multiple-antenna communication system with randomly located eavesdroppers. The exact distributions of the received signal-to-noise-ratios (SNRs) at the legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Wei Shi , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Xiaohu You , Chunming Zhao

In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security in downlink of Power Domain Non Orthogonal Multiple Access based heterogeneous cellular network in presence of multiple eavesdroppers. Our aim is to maximize the sum secrecy rate of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Moslem Forouzesh , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari , Kai Kit Wong

Backscatter wireless communication is an emerging technique widely used in low-cost and low-power wireless systems, especially in passive radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. Recently, the requirement of high data rates, data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Qian Yang , Hui-Ming Wang , Yi Zhang , Zhu Han

The secure transmission of confidential information in cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communication networks is vitally important for user's personal safety. However, for C-V2X there have not been much studies on the physical layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Chao Wang , Zan Li , Gen Xiang Xia , Jia Shi , Jiangbo Si , Yulong Zou

Wireless data communications are always facing the risk of eavesdropping and interception. Conventional protection solutions which are based on encryption may not always be practical as is the case for wireless IoT networks or may soon…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Faycal Bouhafs , Neda Aboutorab , Parastoo Sadeghi , Frank den Hartog

This paper studies the physical layer security (PLS) of a vehicular network employing a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). RIS technologies are emerging as an important paradigm for the realisation of smart radio environments, where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Abubakar U. Makarfi , Khaled M. Rabie , Omprakash Kaiwartya , Xingwang Li , Rupak Kharel

Physical layer security (PLS) technology based on the fixed-position antenna (FPA) has {attracted widespread attention}. Due to the fixed feature of the antennas, current FPA-based PLS schemes cannot fully utilize the spatial degree of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhiyong Feng , Yujia Zhao , Kan Yu , Dong Li

In this paper, we study the design of secure communication for time division duplex multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with active eavesdropping. We assume that the eavesdropper actively attacks the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Yongpeng Wu , Chao-Kai Wen , Wen Chen , Shi Jin , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire

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

Due to their flexible deployment and on-demand mobility, small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are anticipated to be involved in widespread communication applications in the forthcoming fifth-generation (5G) networks. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Hui-Ming Wang , Xu Zhang , Jia-Cheng Jiang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an important component of next-generation wireless networks that can assist in high data rate communications and provide enhanced coverage.Their high mobility and aerial nature offer deployment…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Wali Ullah Khan , Eva Lagunas , Zain Ali , Muhammad Awais Javed , Manzoor Ahmed , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Petar Popovski

With the evolution of mobile communication systems toward large-scale arrays, high-frequency operation, and reconfigurable antenna architectures, fluid antenna systems (FAS) operating in the near-field (NF) regime provide new degrees of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Peng Zhang , Jian Dang , Miaowen Wen , Ziyang Liu , Chen Zhao , Huaifeng Shi , Chengsheng Pan , Zaichen Zhang

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

The classic MIMO wiretap channel comprises a passive eavesdropper that attempts to intercept communications between an authorized transmitter-receiver pair, each node being equipped with multiple antennas. In a dynamic network, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Amitav Mukherjee , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Physical layer security is a promising approach that can benefit traditional encryption methods. The idea of physical layer security is to take advantage of the features of the propagation medium and its impairments to ensure secure…

In this paper, we study the design of secure communication for time division duplexing multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with active eavesdropping. We assume that the eavesdropper actively attacks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Yongpeng Wu , Chao-Kai Wen , Wen Chen , Shi Jin , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire

Communication security could be enhanced at physical layer but at the cost of complex algorithms and redundant hardware, which would render traditional physical layer security (PLS) techniques unsuitable for use with resource-constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Tongyang Xu