Wireless communication plays an important role in the surveillance and control systems deployed in the marine environment. Currently, there is an increasing concern with the information security in various marine projects including offshore hurricane monitoring, offshore earthquake surveillance, offshore wind farms, etc. In the marine environment, usually there exists a line-of-sight (LOS) between the transmitter and the receiver, thus the RF fading can be characterized by the Rician distribution. In the present work, we conduct an analysis on the security of various Fading channels in the...

Data transmission is the most common functionality our modern Human civilizations rely on. Securing Data during communications or transmissions has become a pressing issue to deal with. Initial ways to secure included cryptography and encryption techniques. Recent studies revealed promising security implementations possible with Physical layer techniques. A new field called Information Theoretic security studies has been developed to study physical layer techniques. This study considers a main legitimate channel and an Eavesdropper's channel. Various metrics such as Secrecy Outage...