This paper provides a comprehensive review of the domain of physical layer security in multiuser wireless networks. The essential premise of physical layer security is to enable the exchange of confidential messages over a wireless medium in the presence of unauthorized eavesdroppers, without relying on higher-layer encryption. This can be achieved primarily in two ways: without the need for a secret key by intelligently designing transmit coding strategies, or by exploiting the wireless communication medium to develop secret keys over public channels. The survey begins with an overview of the foundations dating back to the pioneering work of Shannon and Wyner on information-theoretic security. We then describe the evolution of secure transmission strategies from point-to-point channels to multiple-antenna systems, followed by generalizations to multiuser broadcast, multiple-access, interference, and relay networks. Secret-key generation and establishment protocols based on physical layer mechanisms are subsequently covered. Approaches for secrecy based on channel coding design are then examined, along with a description of inter-disciplinary approaches based on game theory and stochastic geometry. The associated problem of physical layer message authentication is also briefly introduced. The survey concludes with observations on potential research directions in this area.

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Principles of Physical Layer Security in Multiuser Wireless Networks: A Survey

In this paper, we present simple opportunistic relaying with decode-and-forward (DaF) and amplify-and-forward (AaF) strategies under an aggregate power constraint. In particular, we consider distributed relay-selection algorithms requiring only local channel knowledge. We show that opportunistic DaF relaying is outage-optimal, that is, it is equivalent in outage behavior to the optimal DaF strategy that employs all potential relays. We further show that opportunistic AaF relaying is outage-optimal among single-relay selection methods and significantly outperforms an AaF strategy based on equal-power multiple-relay transmissions with local channel knowledge. These findings reveal that cooperation offers diversity benefits even when cooperative relays choose not to transmit but rather choose to cooperatively listen; they act as passive relays and give priority to the transmission of a single opportunistic relay. Numerical and simulation results are presented to verify our analysis.

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Cooperative Communications with Outage-Optimal Opportunistic Relaying

The days where swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will occupy our skies are fast approaching due to the introduction of cost-efficient and reliable small aerial vehicles and the increasing demand for use of such vehicles in a plethora of civil applications. Governments and industry alike have been heavily investing in the development of UAVs. As such it is important to understand the characteristics of networks with UAVs to enable the incorporation of multiple, coordinated aerial vehicles into the air traffic in a reliable and safe manner. To this end, this survey reports the characteristics and requirements of UAV networks for envisioned civil applications over the period 2000–2015 from a communications and networking viewpoint. We survey and quantify quality-of-service requirements, network-relevant mission parameters, data requirements, and the minimum data to be transmitted over the network. Furthermore, we elaborate on general networking related requirements such as connectivity, adaptability, safety, privacy, security, and scalability. We also report experimental results from many projects and investigate the suitability of existing communication technologies for supporting reliable aerial networking.

Survey on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks for Civil Applications: A Communications Viewpoint

Given audio of President Barack Obama, we synthesize a high quality video of him speaking with accurate lip sync, composited into a target video clip. Trained on many hours of his weekly address footage, a recurrent neural network learns the mapping from raw audio features to mouth shapes. Given the mouth shape at each time instant, we synthesize high quality mouth texture, and composite it with proper 3D pose matching to change what he appears to be saying in a target video to match the input audio track. Our approach produces photorealistic results.

Synthesizing Obama: learning lip sync from audio

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling technologies for UAVs, wireless communication is essential and has drawn significantly growing attention in recent years. Compared to the conventional terrestrial communications, UAVs’ communications face new challenges due to their high altitude above the ground and great flexibility of movement in the 3-D space. Several critical issues arise, including the line-of-sight (LoS) dominant UAV-ground channels and induced strong aerial-terrestrial network interference, the distinct communication quality-of-service (QoS) requirements for UAV control messages versus payload data, the stringent constraints imposed by the size, weight, and power (SWAP) limitations of UAVs, as well as the exploitation of the new design degree of freedom (DoF) brought by the highly controllable 3-D UAV mobility. In this article, we give a tutorial overview of the recent advances in UAV communications to address the above issues, with an emphasis on how to integrate UAVs into the forthcoming fifth-generation (5G) and future cellular networks. In particular, we partition our discussion into two promising research and application frameworks of UAV communications, namely UAV-assisted wireless communications and cellular-connected UAVs, where UAVs are integrated into the network as new aerial communication platforms and users, respectively. Furthermore, we point out promising directions for future research.

Accessing From the Sky: A Tutorial on UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond

In this correspondence, we present systematic and closed-form constructions of complex orthogonal space-time block codes from complex orthogonal designs of rates (k+1)/2k for 2k-1 or 2k transmit antennas for any positive integer k.

Closed-form designs of complex orthogonal space-time block codes of rates (k+1)/(2k) for 2k-1 or 2k transmit antennas

The design of effective routing protocols in airborne networks (ANs) relies on suitable mobility models that capture the movement patterns of airborne vehicles. As airborne vehicles cannot make sharp turns as easily as ground vehicles do, the widely used ground-based mobile ad hoc network (MANET) mobility models are not appropriate to use as the analytical frameworks for airborne networking. In this paper, we introduce a novel mobility model, which is called the smooth-turn (ST) mobility model, that captures the correlation of acceleration of airborne vehicles across temporal and spatial coordinates. The proposed model is realistic in capturing the tendency of airborne vehicles toward making straight trajectories and STs with large radii, yet is tractable enough for analysis and design. We first describe the mathematics of this model and then prove that the stationary node distribution is uniform. Furthermore, we introduce a metric to quantify the degree of model randomness, and using this, we compare and classify several mobility models in the literature. We conclude this paper with several possible variations to the basic ST mobility model.

A Smooth-Turn Mobility Model for Airborne Networks

Mobility models serve as the foundation for evaluating and designing airborne networks (ANs). Due to the significant impact of mobility models on the networking performance, the mobility models must realistically capture the attributes of ANs. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey and comparative analysis of mobility models that are either adapted to or developed for AN evaluation purposes. We evaluate these mobility models based on the following metrics: adaptability, networking performance, and ability to realistically capture the mobility attributes of ANs (including high mobility, mechanical and aerodynamic constraint, and safety requirements). To provide a deeper understanding and facilitate the selection and configuration of these mobility models, we also evaluate them based on randomness levels and associated applications.

A Survey and Analysis of Mobility Models for Airborne Networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have great potential to revolutionize many science and engineering domains. We present a novel environmental monitoring system with a focus on overall system architecture for seamless integration of wired and wireless sensors for long-term, remote, and near-real-time monitoring. We also present a unified framework for sensor data collection, management, visualization, dissemination, and exchange, conforming to the new Sensor Web Enablement standard. Some initial field testing results are also presented. The monitoring system is being integrated into the Texas Environmental Observatory infrastructure for long-term operation. As part of the integrated system, a new WSN-based soil moisture monitoring system is developed and deployed to support hydrologic monitoring and modeling research. This work represents a significant contribution to the empirical study of the emerging WSN technology. We address many practical issues in real-world application scenarios that are often neglected in the existing WSN research.

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Integration of wireless sensor networks in environmental monitoring cyber infrastructure

Throughput capacity of a random wireless network has been studied extensively in the literature. Most existing studies were based on the assumption that each transmission involves only one transmitter in order to avoid interference. However, recent studies on physical-layer network coding (PLNC) have shown that such an assumption can be relaxed to improve throughput performance of a wireless network. In PLNC, signals from different senders can be transmitted to the same receiver in the same channel simultaneously. In this paper, we investigate the impact of PLNC on throughput capacity of a random wireless network. Our study reveals that, although PLNC scheme does not change the scaling law, it can improve throughput capacity by a fixed factor. Specifically, for a one-dimensional network, we observe that PLNC can eliminate the effect of interference in some scenarios. A tighter capacity bound is derived for a two-dimensional network. In addition, we also show achievable lower bounds for random wireless networks with network coding and PLNC.

Shengli Fu

Papers

Closed-form designs of complex orthogonal space-time block codes of rates (k+1)/(2k) for 2k-1 or 2k transmit antennas

A Smooth-Turn Mobility Model for Airborne Networks

A Survey and Analysis of Mobility Models for Airborne Networks

Integration of wireless sensor networks in environmental monitoring cyber infrastructure

On capacity of random wireless networks with physical-layer network coding