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The dual use of radio signals for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has recently drawn significant attention. To meet the practical requirement that energy receivers (ERs) operate with much higher received power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Liang Liu , Rui Zhang , K. C. Chua

This paper investigates the performance of multi-user covert communications over a fixed bandwidth in a multi-cell scenario with both eavesdroppers and malicious jammers. We propose an intelligent spectrum control (ISC) scheme that combines…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yujie Ling , Zan Li , Lei Guan , Zheng Zhang , Dusit Niyato

This work investigates the covertness and security performance of Internet-of-Things (IoTs) networks under Rayleigh fading environments. Specifically, a cellular source transmits covert information to cell-edge users with the assistance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Thai-Hoc Vu , Anh-Tu Le , Ngo Hoang Tu , Tan N. Nguyen , Miroslav Voznak

We are concerned with the problem of maximizing the worst-case lifetime of a data-gathering wireless sensor network consisting of a set of sensor nodes directly communicating with a base-station.We propose to solve this problem by modeling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-03 Samar Agnihotri , Pavan Nuggehalli

We consider a wireless network composed of three nodes and limited by the half-duplex and total power constraints. This formulation encompasses many of the special cases studied in the literature and allows for capturing the common features…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Lifeng Lai , Ke Liu , Hesham El Gamal

This paper investigates the impact of deploying the fluid antenna system (FAS) on the performance of covert communications. In particular, we focus on a scenario where a transmitter seeks to covertly communicate with a receiver, while a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Masoud Kaveh , Riku Jantti , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

We investigate optimal resource allocation for delay-limited cooperative communication in time varying wireless networks. Motivated by real-time applications that have stringent delay constraints, we develop a dynamic cooperation strategy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-08 Rahul Urgaonkar , Michael J. Neely

We introduce a model for mobile, multi-agent information transfer that increases the communication covertness through a protocol which also increases the information transfer delay. Covertness is achieved in the presence of a warden who has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Pei Peng , Nikolas Melissaris , Emina Soljanin , Bill Lee , Huafeng Fan , Anton Maliev

Interference management has become a key factor in regulating transmissions in wireless communication networks. To support effective interference management schemes, it can be essential to have prior knowledge about the network topology. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Tolunay Seyfi , Ahmed P. Mohamed , Aly El Gamal

In this paper, we investigate covert communications in a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) system. Under the RSMA principles, the messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Heng Chang , Hai Yang , Shuobo Xu , Xiyu Pang , Hongwu Liu

Providing security guarantees for wireless communication is critically important for today's applications. While previous work in this area has concentrated on radio frequency (RF) channels, providing security guarantees for RF channels is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Amine Laourine , Aaron B. Wagner

Many practical wireless communications systems select their transmit rate from a finite set of modulation and coding schemes, which correspond to a set of discrete rates. In this paper, we therefore formulate a joint coordinated precoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Rasmus Brandt , Mats Bengtsson

The explosion of the number of low-power devices in the next decades calls for a re-thinking of wireless network design, namely, unifying wireless transmission of information and power so as to make the best use of the RF spectrum,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Morteza Varasteh , Jakob Hoydis , Bruno Clerckx

Wireless communication provides a wide coverage at the cost of exposing information to unintended users. As an information-theoretic paradigm, secrecy rate derives bounds for secure transmission when the channel to the eavesdropper is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ashkan Kalantari , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Sina Maleki , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

This paper studies multi-antenna-aided covert communications coexisting with randomly located wardens and interferers, considering both centralized and distributed antenna systems (CAS/DAS). The throughput performance of the covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

This paper introduces a wireless communication protocol for industrial control systems that uses channel quality awareness to dynamically create network-device cooperation and assist the nodes in momentary poor channel conditions. To that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Saeed R. Khosravirad , Harish Viswanathan , Wei Yu

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

This paper considers the problem of decentralized submodular maximization subject to partition matroid constraint using a sequential greedy algorithm with probabilistic inter-agent message-passing. We propose a communication-aware framework…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Joan Vendrell , Solmaz Kia

Wireless short-packet communications pose challenges to the security and reliability of the transmission. Besides, the proactive warder compounds these challenges, who detects and interferes with the potential transmission. An extra jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Manlin Wang , Yao Yao , Bin Xia , Zhiyong Chen , Jiangzhou Wang

We investigate the problem of reliable communication in the presence of active adversaries that can tamper with the transmitted data. We consider a legitimate transmitter-receiver pair connected over multiple communication paths (routes).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Mahtab Mirmohseni , Panagiotis Papadimitratos