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Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation networks. However, its typical end-to-end joint source--channel coding (JSCC) architecture also raises serious privacy concerns. To guide future secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen , Xuemin Shen

This paper investigates physical-layer key generation (PLKG) in multi-antenna base station systems, by leveraging a fluid antenna system (FAS) to dynamically customize radio environments. Without requiring additional nodes or extensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zhiyu Huang , Guyue Li , Hao Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

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

With the emergence of 5G low latency applications, such as haptics and V2X, low complexity and low latency security mechanisms are sought. Promising lightweight mechanisms include physical unclonable functions (PUF) and secret key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Miroslav Mitev , Arsenia Chorti , Martin Reed , Leila Musavian

Satellite-terrestrial networks (STNs) have emerged as a promising architecture for providing seamless wireless coverage and connectivity for multiple users. However, potential malicious eavesdroppers pose a serious threat to the private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yujie Ling , Zan Li , Lei Guan , Zheng Zhang , Shengyu Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we consider the physical layer security (PLS) problem for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems in the presence of hybrid-colluding eavesdroppers, where an active eavesdropper (AE) and a passive eavesdropper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Meiding Liu , Zhengchun Zhou , Qiao Shi , Guyue Li , Zilong Liu , Pingzhi Fan , Inkyu Lee

The integration of sensing and communication enables wireless communication systems to serve environment-aware applications. In this paper, we propose to leverage sensing to enhance physical layer security (PLS) in multiuser communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Dongfang Xu , Yiming Xu , Zhiqiang Wei , Shenghui Song , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

As a promising physical layer security technique, physical layer key generation (PLKG) enables legitimate users to obtain secret keys from wireless channel without security infrastructures. However, in harsh propagation environments, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Jiacheng Guo , Ning Gao , Yiping Zuo , Hao Xu , Shi Jin , Kai Kit Wong

Physical layer secret key generation exploits the reciprocal channel randomness for key generation and has proven to be an effective addition security layer in wireless communications. However, static or scarcely random channels require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhuangkun Wei , Weisi Guo

Real-time communications in packet-switched networks have become widely used in daily communication, while they inevitably suffer from network delays and data losses in constrained real-time conditions. To solve these problems, audio packet…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Yuansheng Guan , Guochen Yu , Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Jie Wang

The massive deployment of low-end wireless Internet of things (IoT) devices opens the challenge of finding de-centralized and lightweight alternatives for secret key distribution. A possible solution, coming from the physical layer, is the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Miroslav Mitev , Arsenia Chorti , Gerhard Fettweis

Information-theoretic secret-key agreement is perhaps the most practically feasible mechanism that provides unconditional security at the physical layer to date. In this paper, we consider the problem of secret-key agreement by sharing…

This paper proposes a secure integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework for multi-user systems with multiple communication users (CUs) and adversarial targets, where the design problem is formulated to maximize secrecy rate…

Lightweight and low latency security schemes at the physical layer that have recently attracted a lot of attention include: (i) physical unclonable functions (PUFs), (ii) localization based authentication, and, (iii) secret key generation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Miroslav Mitev , Mahdi Shekiba-Herfeh , Arsenia Chorti , Martin Reed

We present a secret key agreement (SKA) protocol for a multi-user time-division duplex system where a base-station (BS) with a large antenna array (LAA) shares secret keys with users in the presence of non-colluding eavesdroppers. In the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Sanghun Im , Hyoungsuk Jeon , Jinho Choi , Jeongseok Ha

The Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) algorithm, a state-of-the-art method in maximum entropy reinforcement learning, traditionally relies on minimizing reverse Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence for policy updates. However, this approach leads to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yixian Zhang , Huaze Tang , Changxu Wei , Wenbo Ding

This letter investigates the robust beamforming design for a near-field secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with multiple communication users (CUs) and targets, as well as multiple eavesdroppers. Taking into account…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ziqiang CHen , Feng Wang , Guojun Han , Xin Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Despite progress in semantic communication (SemCom), research on SemCom security is still in its infancy. To bridge this gap, we propose a general covert SemCom framework for wireless networks, reducing eavesdropping risk. Our approach…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yansheng Liu , Jinbo Wen , Zongyao Zhang , Kun Zhu , Yang Zhang , Jiangtian Nie , Jiawen Kang

In this paper, we propose a simultaneous secrecy and covert communications (SSACC) scheme in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided network with a cooperative jammer. The scheme enhances communication security by maximizing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Yanyu Cheng , Yujian Hu , Haoran Liu , Hua Zhong , Wei Wang , Pan Li

In this paper, we consider the problem of secret key generation for multiple parties. Multi-user networks usually require a trusted party to efficiently distribute keys to the legitimate users and this process is a weakness against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ufuk Altun , Semiha T. Basaran , Gunes K. Kurt , Enver Ozdemir
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