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Information-theoretic secrecy, in particular the wiretap channel formulation, provides protection against interception of a message by adversary Eve and has been widely studied in the last two decades. In contrast, covert communications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Moslem Forouzesh , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari , Kai Kit Wong , Dennis Goeckel

Semantic communications conveys task-relevant meaning rather than focusing solely on message reconstruction, improving bandwidth efficiency and robustness for next-generation wireless systems. However, learned semantic representations can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

An upper bound to the identification capacity of discrete memoryless wiretap channels is derived under the requirement of semantic effective secrecy, combining semantic secrecy and stealth constraints. A previously established lower bound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Johannes Rosenberger , Abdalla Ibrahim , Boulat A. Bash , Christian Deppe , Roberto Ferrara , Uzi Pereg

This article introduces a novel lightweight framework using ambient backscattering communications to counter eavesdroppers. In particular, our framework divides an original message into two parts: (i) the active-transmit message transmitted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Nam H. Chu , Nguyen Van Huynh , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Shimin Gong , Tao Shu , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Khoa T. Phan

Wireless signals are commonly used for communications. Emerging applications are giving new functions to wireless signals, in which wireless sensing is the most attractive one. Channel state information (CSI) is not only the parameter for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Tongyang Xu

This paper considers the transmission of confidential messages over noisy wireless ad hoc networks, where both background noise and interference from concurrent transmitters affect the received signals. For the random networks where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Jinxiao Zhu , Yin Chen , Yulong Shen , Osamu Takahashi , Xiaohong Jiang , Norio Shiratori

Interference is a fundamental feature of the wireless channel. To better understand the role of cooperation in interference management, the two-user Gaussian interference channel where the destination nodes can cooperate by virtue of being…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-01-28 Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Pramod Viswanath

In this paper, we consider fundamental communication limits over a compound channel. Covert communication in the information-theoretic context has been primarily concerned with fundamental limits when the transmitter wishes to communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Mohammad Hossein Yassaee , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Wireless radio channels are known to contain information about the surrounding propagation environment, which can be extracted using established wireless sensing methods. Thus, today's ubiquitous wireless devices are attractive targets for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Paul Staat , Simon Mulzer , Stefan Roth , Veelasha Moonsamy , Markus Heinrichs , Rainer Kronberger , Aydin Sezgin , Christof Paar

This paper considers the secrecy transmission in a large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless network, in which a set of UAVs in the sky transmit confidential information to their respective legitimate receivers on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

Secure communication is considered with unreliable entanglement assistance, where the adversary may intercept the legitimate receiver's entanglement resource before communication takes place. The communication setting of unreliable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Meir Lederman , Uzi Pereg

This paper studies a novel cooperation method in a two-user wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which one hybrid access point (HAP) broadcasts wireless energy to two distributed wireless devices (WDs), while the WDs use the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Yuan Zheng , Suzhi Bi , Xiaohui Lin

This letter studies the practical design of secure transmissions without knowing eavesdropper's channel state information (ECSI). An ECSI-irrelevant metric is introduced to quantize the intrinsic anti-eavesdropping ability (AEA) that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Hao Deng

We study covert communications over binary-input discrete memoryless alarm two-way channels, in which two users interact through a two-way channel and attempt to hide the presence of their communication from an eavesdropping receiver. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Tuna Erdoğan , Tyler Kann , Aria Nosratinia , Matthieu Bloch

We study the multi-receiver wiretap channel with public and confidential messages. In this channel, there is a transmitter that wishes to communicate with two legitimate users in the presence of an external eavesdropper. The transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-22 Ersen Ekrem , Sennur Ulukus

Secure communication in a potentially malicious environment becomes more and more important. The arbitrarily varying wiretap channel (AVWC) provides information theoretical bounds on how much information can be exchanged even in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Carsten Rudolf Janda , Moritz Wiese , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Holger Boche

Traditional cryptography assumes an eavesdropper receives an error-free copy of the transmitted ciphertext. Wyner's wiretap channel model recognizes that at the physical layer both the intended receiver and the passive eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Willie K Harrison , Steven W. McLaughlin

Covert wireless communications are critical for concealing the existence of any transmission from adversarial wardens, particularly in complex environments with multiple heterogeneous detectors. This paper proposes a novel adversarial AI…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Afan Ali , Md. Jalil Piran , Huseyin Arslan

The role of multiple antennas for secure communication is investigated within the framework of Wyner's wiretap channel. We characterize the secrecy capacity in terms of generalized eigenvalues when the sender and eavesdropper have multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-31 Ashish Khisti , Gregory Wornell

We consider secrecy obtained when one transmits on a Gaussian Wiretap channel above the secrecy capacity. Instead of equivocation, we consider probability of error as the criterion of secrecy. The usual channel codes are considered for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-07 R. Rajesh , Shahid M. Shah , Vinod Sharma