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In recent years, differential privacy has emerged as the de facto standard for sharing statistics of datasets while limiting the disclosure of private information about the involved individuals. This is achieved by randomly perturbing the…

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We study a repeated information design problem faced by an informed sender who tries to influence the behavior of a self-interested receiver. We consider settings where the receiver faces a sequential decision making (SDM) problem. At each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Martino Bernasconi , Matteo Castiglioni , Alberto Marchesi , Nicola Gatti , Francesco Trovo

In this work we consider the problem of online submodular maximization under a cardinality constraint with differential privacy (DP). A stream of $T$ submodular functions over a common finite ground set $U$ arrives online, and at each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sebastian Perez-Salazar , Rachel Cummings

Social groups give the opportunity for a new form of caching. In this paper, we investigate how a social group of users can jointly optimize bandwidth usage, by each caching parts of the data demand, and then opportunistically share these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Mohammed Karmoose , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli

In this paper, we propose a novel partition reservation system to study the partition information and its transmission over a noise-free Boolean multi-access channel. The objective of transmission is not message restoration, but to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shuhang Wu , Shuangqing Wei , Yue Wang , Ramachandran Vaidyanathan , Jian Yuan

A lossy source coding problem is studied in which a source encoder communicates with two decoders, one with and one without correlated side information with an additional constraint on the privacy of the side information at the uninformed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-13 Ravi Tandon , Lalitha Sankar , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper I investigate several offline and online data transfer scheduling problems and propose efficient algorithms and techniques for addressing them. In the offline case, I present a novel, heuristic, algorithm for scheduling files…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Mugurel Ionut Andreica

Personalization and recommendations are now accepted as core competencies in just about every online setting, ranging from media platforms to e-commerce to social networks. While the challenge of estimating user preferences has garnered…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Vivek F. Farias , Andrew A. Li , Deeksha Sinha

A secret sharing scheme is a method to store information securely and reliably. Particularly, in a threshold secret sharing scheme, a secret is encoded into $n$ shares, such that any set of at least $t_1$ shares suffice to decode the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Wentao Huang , Michael Langberg , Joerg Kliewer , Jehoshua Bruck

In this paper, we investigate resource allocation algorithm design for full-duplex (FD) cognitive radio systems. The secondary network employs a FD base station for serving multiple half-duplex downlink and uplink users simultaneously. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Yan Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Nikola Zlatanov , Robert Schober

In wireless networks, the rate achieved depends on factors like level of interference, hardware impairments, and channel gain. Often, instantaneous values of some of these factors can be measured, and they provide useful information about…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Manjesh K. Hanawal , Sumit J. Darak

When multiple users share a common link in direct transmission, packet loss and network collision may occur due to the simultaneous arrival of traffics at the source node. To tackle this problem, users may resort to an indirect path: the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Qiong Liu , Chehao Wang , Ce Zheng

In this paper, we study the resource allocation for an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) radio system employing a full-duplex base station for serving multiple half-duplex downlink and uplink users simultaneously. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Yan Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

A method for optimizing encryption mechanism and resource allocation based on edge computing environment is proposed. A local differential privacy algorithm based on a histogram algorithm is used to protect user information during task…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Ruan Yanjiao

Federated Learning (FL) with quantization and deliberately added noise over wireless networks is a promising approach to preserve user differential privacy (DP) while reducing wireless resources. Specifically, an FL process can be fused…

A secrecy system with side information at the decoders is studied in the context of lossy source compression over a noiseless broadcast channel. The decoders have access to different side information sequences that are correlated with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Eva C. Song , Paul Cuff , H. Vincent Poor

We show that the problem of constructing tree-structured descriptions of data layouts that are optimal with respect to space or other criteria from given sequences of displacements, can be solved in polynomial time. The problem is relevant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Robert Ganian , Martin Kalany , Stefan Szeider , Jesper Larsson Träff

The Bayesian persuasion paradigm of strategic communication models interaction between a privately-informed agent, called the sender, and an ignorant but rational agent, called the receiver. The goal is typically to design a (near-)optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Ronen Gradwohl , Niklas Hahn , Martin Hoefer , Rann Smorodinsky

We study the problem of single-server multi-message private information retrieval with side information. One user wants to recover $N$ out of $K$ independent messages which are stored at a single server. The user initially possesses a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Su Li , Michael Gastpar

Randomized response has long been used in statistical surveys to estimate the proportion of sensitive groups in a population while protecting the privacy of respondents. More recently, this technique has been adopted by organizations that…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-26 Bittu Karmakar , Palash Ghosh