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This paper addresses the challenge of co-channel interference and intentional jamming in low-altitude air-ground communications. Since conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA) systems lack spatial adaptability to dynamically balance signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Yifan Guo , Junshan Luo , Fanggang Wang , Haiyang Ding , Shilian Wang , Zhenhai Xu

Physical layer security (PLS) is an important technology in wireless communication systems to safeguard communication privacy and security between transmitters and legitimate users. The integration of large-scale antenna arrays (LSAA) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Weijie Xiong , Jingran Lin , Zhiling Xiao , Qiang Li

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 fluid antenna system (FAS) has emerged as a new physical-layer concept to provide enhanced propagation conditions for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications over conventional fixed arrays. This work focuses on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Wenxuan Sun , Mingjie Shao , Luteng Zhu , Yao Ge , Tong Zhang , Zhi Liu

Research in underwater communication is rapidly becoming attractive due to its various modern applications. An efficient mechanism to secure such communication is via physical layer security. In this paper, we propose a novel physical layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Waqas Aman , Saif Al-Kuwari , Marwa Qaraqe

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) are expected to play a central role in future 6G infrastructures, yet uplink transmissions of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) remain vulnerable to eavesdropping due to their limited transmit power,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Wei Shi , Wei Xu , Yongming Huang , Jiacheng Yao , Wenhao Hu , Dongming Wang

Provisioning secrecy for all users, given the heterogeneity in their channel conditions, locations, and the unknown location of the attacker/eavesdropper, is challenging and not always feasible. The problem is even more difficult under…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Monir Abughalwa , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Ming Zeng , Quoc-Viet Pham , Eryk Dutkiewicz

A frequency domain (FD) time-reversal (TR) precoder is proposed to perform physical layer security (PLS) in single-input single-output (SISO) system using orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). To maximize the secrecy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Sidney Golstein , Trung-Hien Nguyen , François Horlin , Philippe De Doncker , Julien Sarrazin

This article investigates physical layer security (PLS) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output multiple-antenna-eavesdropper (MIMOME) channels. Existing researches ignore the problem that secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yiliang Liu , Zhou Su , Chi Zhang , Hsiao-Hwa Chen

We propose the new technique of physical-layer cryptography based on using a massive MIMO channel as a key between the sender and desired receiver, which need not be secret. The goal is for low-complexity encoding and decoding by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Thomas Dean , Andrea Goldsmith

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications are highly promising to improve the capacity of modern wireless networks, while the physical layer security (PLS) techniques hold great potential to enhance the critical secrecy performance therein.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Yuanyu Zhang , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang , Shoji Kasahara

Exploiting short packets for communications is one of the key technologies for realizing emerging application scenarios such as massive machine type communications (mMTC) and ultra-reliable low-latency communications (uRLLC). In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Chen Feng , Hui-Ming Wang , H. Vincent Poor

This paper proposes a novel liquid intelligent metasurface (LIM)-assisted downlink multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) system, wherein both the base station (BS) and the metasurface are respectively equipped with fluid antennas…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Li-Hsiang Shen

Fluid antenna enables position reconfigurability that gives transceiver access to a high-resolution spatial signal and the ability to avoid interference through the ups and downs of fading channels. Previous studies investigated this fluid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Tianyu Han , Yongxu Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Gan Zheng , Hyundong Shin

The heterogeneous cellular network (HCN) is a promising approach to the deployment of 5G cellular networks. This paper comprehensively studies physical layer security in a multi-tier HCN where base stations (BSs), authorized users and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Hui-Ming Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng , Jinhong Yuan , Don Towsley , Moon Ho Lee

In this paper, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided underlay cognitive radio network is investigated. An RIS is utilized to improve the secondary network (SN) reliability and robustness while simultaneously increasing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Majid H. Khoshafa , Telex M. N. Ngatchede , Mohamed H. Ahmed

A large spectrum of technologies are collectively dubbed as physical layer security (PLS), ranging from wiretap coding, secret key generation (SKG), authentication using physical unclonable functions (PUFs), localization / RF…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Miroslav Mitev , Thuy M. Pham , Arsenia Chorti , Andre Noll Barreto , Gerhard Fettweis

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 considers the downlink of an ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) system in which a base station (BS) serves multiple single-antenna users in the short (finite) blocklength (FBL) regime with the assistance of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 M. Abughalwa , H. D. Tuan , D. N. Nguyen , H. V. Poor , L. Hanzo

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Hieu V. Nguyen , Octavia A. Dobre , Oh-Soon Shin
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