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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute a strong candidate physical-layer technology for the $6$-th Generation (6G) of wireless networks, offering new design degrees of freedom for efficiently addressing demanding performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , George C. Alexandropoulos

This paper considers a cooperative jamming (CJ)-aided secure wireless communication system. Conventionally, the jammer transmits Gaussian noise (GN) to enhance security; however, the GN scheme also degrades the legitimate receiver's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Hao Yang , Hao Xu , Kai Wan , Sijie Zhao , Robert Caiming Qiu

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is leveraged to enhance the physical layer security of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system in which the IRS is deployed to not only assist the downlink communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Octavia A. Dobre , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This paper presents a novel framework for enhancing physical-layer security in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems by leveraging the reconfigurability of fluid antenna systems (FAS). We propose a joint precoding and port…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Abdelhamid Salem , Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

Physical layer security (PLS) has been shown to hold promise as a new paradigm for securing wireless links. In contrast with the conventional cryptographic techniques, PLS methods exploit the random fading in wireless channels to provide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Furqan Jameel , Shurjeel Wyne , Syed Junaid Nawaz , Junaid Ahmed , Kanapathippillai Cumanan

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is emerging as a promising technique for performance enhancement for next-generation wireless networks. This paper investigates the physical layer security of an RIS-assisted…

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

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a pivotal technology for next-generation wireless networks, enabling simultaneous data transmission and environmental sensing. However, existing ISAC systems face fundamental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Amirhossein Taherpour , Abbas Taherpour , Tamer Khattab

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems have emerged as a promising solution to improve spectrum efficiency and enable functional convergence. However, ensuring secure information transmission while maintaining high-quality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Yufei Wang , Qiang Li , Hongli Liu , Ying Zhang , Jingran Lin

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), which allows individual radar and communication systems to share the same spectrum bands, is an emerging and promising technique for alleviating spectrum congestion problems. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Jinjin Chu , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

Despite the enhanced spectral efficiency brought by the integrated radar and communication technique, it poses significant risks to communication security when confronted with malicious radar targets. To address this issue, a reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Tong-Xing Zheng , Xin Chen , Lan Lan , Ying Ju , Xiaoyan Hu , Rongke Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Tiejun Cui

From an information theoretic perspective, joint communication and sensing (JCAS) represents a natural generalization of communication network functionality. However, it requires the re-evaluation of network performance from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Nicholas R. Olson , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Robert W. Heath

In this letter, the use of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the physical layer security of downlink wireless communication is investigated. Assuming a single-antenna legitimate user and a multi-antenna eavesdropper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-07 Keming Feng , Xiao Li , Yu Han , Shi Jin , Yijian Chen

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can adaptively adjust the phase shifts of its reflecting units to strengthen the desired signal and/or suppress the undesired signal. In this letter, we investigate an IRS-aided secure wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) as an essential topic in the sixth-generation (6G) communications aims to enhance communication performance or mitigate undesired transmission. However, the controllability of each reflecting element…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Jinqiu Zhao , Jia Ye Shuaishuai Guo , Zhiquan Bai , Di Zhou , Abeer Mohamed

In this paper, we examine the physical layer security for cooperative wireless networks with multiple intermediate nodes, where the decode-and-forward (DF) protocol is considered. We propose a new joint relay and jammer selection (JRJS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Haiyan Guo , Zhen Yang , Linghua Zhang , Jia Zhu , Yulong Zou

Physical layer security (PLS) technologies are expected to play an important role in the next-generation wireless networks, by providing secure communication to protect critical and sensitive information from illegitimate devices. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yun Wen , Gaojie Chen , Sisai Fang , Zheng Chu , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli

In this paper, we investigate the integration of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RIS) with rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) for improving physical layer security (PLS) in integrated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Thanh Nha To , Hoang Lai Pham , Quynh Nguyen Thi , Tuan Anh Pham , Le Thanh Bang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are recognized with great potential to strengthen wireless security, yet the performance gain largely depends on the deployment location of RISs in the network topology. In this paper, we consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Xiao Tang , Hongliang He , Limeng Dong , Lixin Li , Qinghe Du , Zhu Han

This paper studies an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS)-aided near-field physical layer security (PLS) communication system, aiming to maximize the secrecy rate by jointly optimizing precoding vector at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiaotong Xu , Qian Zhang , Yunxiao Li , Xuejun Cheng , Meihui Liu , Ju Liu

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