The broadcast nature of wireless communications leads to two concepts: cooperation and secrecy. The basis for both cooperation and the potential lack of secrecy is the over-heard information at the unintended parties, which wireless communication channel provides for free. It is well-established that users can help increase each others’ rates by intelligently using their over-heard information....

Title of dissertation: SECURE DEGREES OF FREEDOM OF WIRELESS NETWORKS Jianwei Xie, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Professor Şennur Ulukuş Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering This dissertation studies the security of wireless interference networks from an information-theoretic point of view. In this setting, several transmitter-receiver pairs wish to have secu...

In this paper, we propose a low-complexity, secrecy capacity achieving polar coding scheme for the cognitive interference channel with confidential messages (CICC) under the strong secrecy criterion. Existing polar coding schemes for interference channels rely on the use of polar codes for the multiple access channel, the code construction problem of which can be complicated. We show that the w...

The capacity of multiuser wireless network, unclear for many years, has always been a hot research topic. Many different operation schemes and coding techniques have been proposed to enlarge the achievable rate region. And omnidirectional relay scheme is one of them. This thesis mainly works on the achievable region of the all-source all-cast network with omnidirectional relay scheme. In order ...

This paper investigates the secrecy performance of amplify-and-forward (AF)-relaying cooperative cognitive radio networks (CCRNs) over Rayleigh-fading channels. Specifically, we consider practical passive eavesdropping scenarios, where the channel state information of the eavesdropper’s link is not available at the secondary transmitter. In order to avoid interfering with the primary receiver a...