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Natural calamities and disasters disrupt the conventional communication setups and the wireless bandwidth becomes constrained. A safe and cost-effective solution for communication and data access in such scenarios is long needed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Atchutananda Surampudi , Sankalp Shirish Chapalgaonkar , Paventhan Arumugam

Backscatter is an enabling technology for battery-free sensing in today's Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIOT). Building a backscatter-based sensing system, however, is a daunting task, due to two obstacles: the unaffordable power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xin Na , Xiuzhen Guo , Zihao Yu , Jia Zhang , Yuan He , Yunhao Liu

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

Designing an efficient protocol for avoiding the threat of recording based attack in presence of a powerful eavesdropper remains a challenge for more than two decades. During authentication, the absence of any secure link between the prover…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Nilesh Chakraborty , Samrat Mondal

A secure key distribution protocol protected by light's noise was introduced in 2003 [Phys. Rev. A 68, 052307 (2003)]. That protocol utilized the shot noise of light present in the optical channel (eg., an optical fiber) to restrict…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Geraldo A. Barbosa

A common approach for introducing security at the physical layer is to rely on the channel variations of the wireless environment. This type of approach is not always suitable for wireless networks where the channel remains static for most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Mohammad Iftekhar Husain , Suyash Mahant , Ramalingam Sridhar

This letter proposes a new physical layer authentication mechanism operating at the physical layer of a communication system where the receiver has partial control of the channel conditions (e.g., using an intelligent reflecting surface).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Laura Crosara , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Stefano Tomasin

Traditional physical layer secure beamforming is achieved via precoding before signal transmission using channel state information (CSI). However, imperfect CSI will compromise the performance with imperfect beamforming and potential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Tongyang Xu , Zhongxiang Wei , Tianhua Xu , Gan Zheng

This paper presents a Secure Edge Gateway Architecture for Wi-Fi-Enabled IoT designed to strengthen local network protection without altering existing infrastructure. The proposed gateway acts as an intermediate control point between Wi-Fi…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Daniyal Ganiuly , Nurzhau Bolatbek , Assel Smaiyl

Lightweight block ciphers have been widely used in applications such as RFID tags, IoTs, and network sensors. Among them, with comparable parameters, the Light Encryption Device (LED) block cipher achieves the smallest area. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Yuan Yao , Mo Yang , Pantea Kiaei , Patrick Schaumont

Data that is transient over an unsecured wireless network is always susceptible to being intercepted by anyone within the range of the wireless signal. Hence providing secure communication to keep the user information and devices safe when…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Priyanka Bhatia , Ronak Sumbaly

In ultralong fiber laser key distribution, two sides use standard optical equipment to create kilometer long fiber lasers in a communication link to establish a secret key. Its security rests on the assumption that any attacker would need…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin , Pedro Chamorro-Posada

Quantum cryptography promises security based on the laws of physics with proofs of security against attackers of unlimited computational power. However, deviations from the original assumptions allow quantum hackers to compromise the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin , Shihan Sajeed , Vadim Makarov

The WiFi backscatter communications offer ultra-low power and ubiquitous connections for IoT systems. Caused by the intermittent-nature of the WiFi traffics, state-of-the-art WiFi backscatter communications are not reliable for backscatter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-16 Xin He , Weiwei Jiang , Meng Cheng , Xiaobo Zhou , Peng-Jun Wan , Panlong Yang , Brian Kurkoski

Today, the Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the emerging technologies that enable the connection and transfer of information through communication networks. The main idea of the IoT is the widespread presence of objects such as mobile…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-19 V. Chegeni , H. Haj Seyyed javadi , M. R Moazami Goudarzi , A. Rezakhani

Key distribution and renewing in wireless local area networks is a crucial issue to guarantee that unauthorized users are prevented from accessing the network. In this paper, we propose a technique for allowing an automatic bootstrap and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marco Baldi , Marco Bianchi , Nicola Maturo , Franco Chiaraluce

With society's increasing reliance on digital data sharing, the protection of sensitive information has become critical. Encryption serves as one of the privacy-preserving methods; however, its realization in the audio domain predominantly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Petr Grinberg , Eric Bezzam , Paolo Prandoni , Martin Vetterli

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the collection of everyday smart devices which connect to the Cloud, often through Fog nodes, to transmit and receive information. These everyday devices are distinct from traditional computers because they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Matthew Chun , Stefan Weber , Hitesh Tewari

We consider the problem of secure communications over the two-way wiretap channel under a strong secrecy criterion. We improve existing results by developing an achievable region based on strategies that exploit both the interference at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Alexandre J. Pierrot , Matthieu R. Bloch

This paper describes about how you can secure your Wireless Network from hackers about various threats to wireless networks, How hackers makes most use of it and what are the security steps one should take to avoid becoming victim of such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-07 V. C. K. P. Arul Oli , Elayaraja Ponram