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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) have been envisioned as two promising technologies due to their high transmission reliability as well as energy-efficiency. This paper investigates the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yingjie Pei , Xinwei Yue , Chongwen Huang , Zhiping Lu

In this paper, we investigate the sensing-aided physical layer security (PLS) towards Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems. A well-known limitation of PLS is the need to have information about potential eavesdroppers (Eves).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Nanchi Su , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros

Intelligent reflective surface (IRS) technology is emerging as a promising performance enhancement technique for next-generation wireless networks. Hence, we investigate the physical layer security of the downlink in IRS-aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-09 Zhiqing Tang , Tianwei Hou , Yuanwei Liu , Jiankang Zhang , Lajos Hanzo

Unlike the conventional fully-passive and fully-active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), a hybrid RIS consisting of active and passive reflection units has recently been concerned, which can exploit their integrated advantages to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-27 Yu Yao , Junhao Zhang , Pu Miao , Long Zhang , Gaojie Chen , Feng Shu , Kai-Kit Wong

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has the potential to facilitate coordination gains from mutual assistance between sensing and communication (S&C), especially sensing-aided communication enhancement (SACE). Reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Xiaohui Li , Qi Zhu , Yunpei Chen , Chadi Assi , Yifei Yuan

This paper investigates the performance of physical layer security (PLS) in fluid antenna-aided communication systems under arbitrary correlated fading channels. In particular, it is considered that a single fixed-antenna transmitter aims…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Wee Kiat New , Hao Xu , Chan-Byoung Chae

Semantic communication is deemed as a revolution of Shannon's paradigm in the six-generation (6G) wireless networks. It aims at transmitting the extracted information rather than the original data, which receivers will try to recover.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Yang Li , Xinyu Zhou , Jun Zhao

This paper considers a downlink Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-assisted Joint Communication and Sensing (JCAS) system within a physically-consistent setting, accounting for the effect of mutual coupling between RIS elements…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Dilki Wijekoon , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

This paper presents a comprehensive physical layer security (PLS) framework for fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided short-packet communications under the variable block-correlation model (VBCM). We consider a downlink wiretap scenario in which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jianchao Zheng , Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Baiyang Liu , Runyu Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Kin-Fai Tong , Sumei Sun

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a key enabler for programmable wireless environments in future Beyond-5G (B5G) and 6G networks. In the meantime, Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) and Physical-Layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Wenqing Dai , Jan Herbst , Jan Petershans , Christoph Lipps , Hans D. Schotten

The paper considers physical layer security (PLS) of an untrusted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network, where a multitude of UAVs communicate in full-duplex (FD) mode. A source-based jamming (SBJ) scheme is exploited for secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Theshani Nuradha , Kasun T. Hemachandra , Tharaka Samarasinghe , Saman Atapattu

By moving from massive antennas to antenna surfaces for software-defined wireless systems, the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) rely on arrays of unit cells to control the scattering and reflection profiles of signals, mitigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Brian Kim , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sennur Ulukus

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…

This paper investigates physical layer security (PLS) in the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiple-user uplink channel. Since the instantaneous eavesdropper's channel state information (CSI) is unavailable, the secrecy rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xiangrui Cheng , Yiliang Liu , Zhou Su , Wei Wang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is poised to redefine the landscape of wireless networks by seamlessly combining data transmission and environmental sensing. However, ISAC systems remain susceptible to eavesdropping, especially…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Hancheng Zhu , Zongze Li , Yik-Chung Wu

This letter analyzes the fundamental performance of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems. For downlink and uplink ISAC, the diversity orders are analyzed to evaluate the communication rate (CR) and the high signal-to-noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Hongwen Yang

Physical layer security is an emerging technique to improve the wireless communication security, which is widely regarded as a complement to cryptographic technologies. To design physical layer security techniques under practical scenarios,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou , Thushara D. Abhayapala

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been recognized as a promising technique for the sixth generation (6G) of mobile communication networks. The key feature of RIS is to reconfigure the propagation environment via smart signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Abdelhamid Salem , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae

In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security in the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free networks. A maximum weighted sum secrecy rate problem is formulated by jointly optimizing the active beamforming (BF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Wanming Hao , Junjie Li , Gangcan Sun , Ming Zeng , Octavia A. Dobre

This paper studies a secure cell-free integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which multiple ISAC transmitters collaboratively send confidential information to multiple communication users (CUs) and concurrently conduct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Zixiang Ren , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng