Proceedings of the IEEE

Secure Communications via Physical-Layer and Information-Theoretic Techniques [Scanning the Issue]

Phillip A. Regalia, Ashish J. Khisti, Yingbin Liang, Stefano Tomasin

Published Sep 16, 2015• 34 citations

Abstract

The articles in this special issue highlight recent advances along with the remaining challenges in the field of physical-layer communications security.

DOI: 10.1109/jproc.2015.2473895

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