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In this paper, we study, information theoretically, the impact of transmitter and or receiver cognition on the channel capacity. The cognition can be described by state information, dependent on the channel noise and or input. Specifically,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Nima S. Anzabi-Nezhad , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani , Mohammad Molavi Kakhki

Information theory is a practical and theoretical framework developed for the study of communication over noisy channels. Its probabilistic basis and capacity to relate statistical structure to function make it ideally suited for studying…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-09 Simon R. Schultz , Robin A. A. Ince , Stefano Panzeri

Covert channels are stealthy communication channels that enable manifold adversary and legitimate scenarios, ranging from malware communications to the exchange of confidential information by journalists and censorship circumvention. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Steffen Wendzel , Tobias Schmidbauer , Sebastian Zillien , Jörg Keller

We consider the problem of covert communication over a state-dependent channel, where the transmitter has causal or noncausal knowledge of the channel states. Here, "covert" means that a warden on the channel should observe similar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Si-Hyeon Lee , Ligong Wang , Ashish Khisti , Gregory W. Wornell

This work investigates a central problem in steganography, that is: How much data can safely be hidden without being detected? To answer this question, a formal definition of steganographic capacity is presented. Once this has been defined,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-10-24 Jeremiah J. Harmsen , William A. Pearlman

Covert communication is the undetected transmission of sensitive information over a communication channel. In wireless communication systems, channel impairments such as signal fading present challenges in the effective implementation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amir Reza Ramtin , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley

Transmitting data reliably over noisy communication channels is one of the most important applications of information theory, and well understood when the channel is accurately modelled by classical physics. However, when quantum effects…

Information theory is a practical and theoretical framework developed for the study of communication over noisy channels. Its probabilistic basis and capacity to relate statistical structure to function make it ideally suited for studying…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-09 Robin A. A. Ince , Simon R. Schultz , Stefano Panzeri

A covert communication system under block fading channels is considered where users experience uncertainty about their channel knowledge. The transmitter seeks to hide the covert communication to a private user by exploiting a legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan

We view a distributed system as a graph of active locations with unidirectional channels between them, through which they pass messages. In this context, the graph structure of a system constrains the propagation of information through it.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Joshua D. Guttman , Paul D. Rowe

The goal of this paper is to provide a rigorous information-theoretic analysis of subnetworks of interference networks. We prove two coding theorems for the compound multiple-access channel with an arbitrary number of channel states. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-02 Moritz Wiese , Holger Boche , Igor Bjelaković , Volker Jungnickel

In this paper, we propose the joint interference cancellation, fast fading channel estimation, and data symbol detection for a general interference setting where the interfering source and the interfered receiver are unsynchronized and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Minh Tri Nguyen , Long Bao Le

We study the secrecy capacity in the vicinity of colluding eavesdroppers. Contrary to the perfect collusion assumption in previous works, our new information-theoretic model considers constraints in collusion. We derive the achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Mahtab Mirmohseni , Panagiotis Papadimitratos

Partial information decomposition has recently found applications in biological signal processing and machine learning. Despite its impacts, the decomposition was introduced through an informal and heuristic route, and its exact operational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Chao Tian , Shlomo Shamai

The primary objective of quantum Shannon theory is to evaluate the capacity of quantum channels. In spite of the existence of rigorous coding theorems that quantify the transmission of information through quantum channels, superadditivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Rajiuddin Sk , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

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

Recent results from statistical physics show that large classes of complex networks, both man-made and of natural origin, are characterized by high clustering properties yet strikingly short path lengths between pairs of nodes. This class…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Rui A. Costa , Joao Barros

Covert channel networks are a well-known method for circumventing the security measures organizations put in place to protect their networks from adversarial attacks. This paper introduces a novel method based on bit-rate modulation for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Simone Soderi , Rocco De Nicola

Information theory provides a fundamental framework for the quantification of information flows through channels, formally Markov kernels. However, quantities such as mutual information and conditional mutual information do not necessarily…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Nihat Ay

The theoretical foundations of data hiding have been revealed by formulating the problem as message communication over a noisy channel. We revisit the problem in light of a more general characterization of the watermark channel and of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-01 Stéphane Pateux , Gaëtan Le Guelvouit , Christine Guillemot