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In coding schemes for the wire-tap channel or the broadcast channels with confidential messages, it is well known that the sender needs to use a stochastic encoding to avoid the information about the transmitted confidential message to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-01 Shun Watanabe , Yasutada Oohama

In physical-layer security, one of the most fundamental issues is the secrecy capacity. The objective of this paper is to determine the secrecy capacity for an indoor visible light communication system consisting of a transmitter, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Jin-Yuan Wang , Xian-Tao Fu , Jun-Bo Wang , Min Lin , Julian Cheng , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Achieving security against adversaries with unlimited computational power is of great interest in a communication scenario. Since polar codes are capacity achieving codes with low encoding-decoding complexity and they can approach perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Amirsina Torfi , Sobhan Soleymani , Siamak Aram , Vahid Tabataba Vakili

This paper considers the problem of secret-key agreement with public discussion subject to a peak power constraint $A$ on the channel input. The optimal input distribution is proved to be discrete with finite support. The result is obtained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Marwen Zorgui , Zouheir Rezki , Basel Alomair , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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

In this paper, we put forward secure network function computation over a directed acyclic network. In such a network, a sink node is required to compute with zero error a target function of which the inputs are generated as source messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Xuan Guang , Yang Bai , Raymond W. Yeung

We study the problem of secure joint source-channel coding for multimodal semantic sources transmitted over noisy wiretap channels. The source model consists of $m$ modalities (e.g., image, audio, and sensor data), all represented as random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Denis Kozlov , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

This paper considers the problem of secure coding design for a type II wiretap channel, where the main channel is noiseless and the eavesdropper channel is a general binary-input symmetric-output memoryless channel. The proposed secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ruoheng Liu , Yingbin Liang , H. Vincent Poor , Predrag Spasojevic

This paper introduces the notion of cache-tapping into the information theoretic models of coded caching. The wiretap channel II in the presence of multiple receivers equipped with fixed-size cache memories, and an adversary which selects…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Mohamed Nafea , Aylin Yener

In this paper, the individual secrecy of two-way wiretap channel is investigated, where two legitimate users' messages are separately guaranteed secure against an external eavesdropper. For one thing, in some communication scenarios, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Chao Qi , Bin Dai , Xiaohu Tang

In this paper, we use a linear programming (LP) optimization approach to evaluate the equivocation for a wiretap channel where the main channel is noiseless, and the wiretap channel is a binary symmetric channel (BSC). Using this technique,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ali Nikkhah , Morteza Shoushtari , Bahareh Akhbari , Willie K. Harrison

We improve the secrecy guarantees for transmission over general binary memoryless symmetric wiretap channels that relies on regular LDPC codes. Previous works showed that LDPC codes achieve secrecy capacity of some classes of wiretap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Madhura Pathegama , Alexander Barg

A broadcast channel (BC) where the decoders cooperate via a one-sided link is considered. One common and two private messages are transmitted and the private message to the cooperative user should be kept secret from the cooperation-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Ziv Goldfeld , Gerhard Kramer , Haim H. Permuter , Paul Cuff

We consider the problem of secure communication over a noiseless 1-2-1 network, an abstract model introduced to capture the directivity characteristic of mmWave communications. We focus on structured networks, which we refer to as 1-2-1…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mohammad Milanian , Minoh Jeong , Martina Cardone

We design short blocklength codes for the Gaussian wiretap channel under information-theoretic security guarantees. Our approach consists in decoupling the reliability and secrecy constraints in our code design. Specifically, we handle the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Vidhi Rana , Remi A. Chou

We consider a set of $n$ messages and a group of $k$ clients. Each client is privileged for receiving an arbitrary subset of the messages over a broadcast erasure channel, which generalizes scenario of a previous work. We propose a method…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Shahriar Etemadi Tajbakhsh , Parastoo Sadeghi

This paper studies the problem of information theoretic secure communication when a source has private messages to transmit to $m$ destinations, in the presence of a passive adversary who eavesdrops an unknown set of $k$ edges. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli

This paper investigates the problem of single-source multicasting over a communication network in the presence of restricted adversaries. When the adversary is constrained to operate only on a prescribed subset of edges, classical cut-set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Christopher Hojny , Altan B. Kılıç , Sascha Kurz , Alberto Ravagnani

We consider the problem of securing a multicast network against a wiretapper that can intercept the packets on a limited number of arbitrary network links of his choice. We assume that the network implements network coding techniques to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-08 Salim El Rouayheb , Emina Soljanin

Traditional network security protocols depend mainly on developing cryptographic schemes and on using biometric methods. These have led to several network security protocols that are unbreakable based on difficulty of solving untractable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-12-24 Salah A. Aly , Nirwan Ansari , H. Vincent Poor