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Shannon introduced the classic model of a cryptosystem in 1949, where Eve has access to an identical copy of the cyphertext that Alice sends to Bob. Shannon defined perfect secrecy to be the case when the mutual information between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Angeles Vazquez-Castro , Masahito Hayashi

Wyner's elegant model of wiretap channel exploits noise in the communication channel to provide perfect secrecy against a computationally unlimited eavesdropper without requiring a shared key. We consider an adversarial model of wiretap…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Pengwei Wang , Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

With the advent of quantum key distribution (QKD) systems, perfect (i.e. information-theoretic) security can now be achieved for distribution of a cryptographic key. QKD systems and similar protocols use classical error-correcting codes for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Andrew Thangaraj , Souvik Dihidar , A. R. Calderbank , Steven McLaughlin , Jean-Marc Merolla

Wireless communication is susceptible to eavesdropping attacks because of its broadcast nature. This paper illustrates how interference can be used to counter eavesdropping and assist secrecy. In particular, a wire-tap channel with a…

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

We consider the problem of polar coding for secure communications over the two-way wiretap channel, where two legitimate users communicate with each other simultaneously while a passive eavesdropper overhears a combination of their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Mengfan Zheng , Meixia Tao , Wen Chen , Cong Ling

The secrecy rate represents the amount of information per unit time that can be securely sent on a communication link. In this work, we investigate the achievable secrecy rates in an energy harvesting communication system composed of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alessandro Biason , Nicola Laurenti , Michele Zorzi

In this paper, bounds to the rate-equivocation region for the general 3-receiver broadcast channel (BC) with degraded message sets, are presented for confidential messages to be kept secret from one of the receivers. This model is more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-27 Li-Chia Choo , Kai-Kit Wong

In this paper, the problem of secret key agreement in state-dependent multiple access channels with an eavesdropper is studied. For this model, the channel state information is non-causally available at the transmitters; furthermore, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Mohsen Bahrami , Ali Bereyhi , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Mohammad Reza Aref

We investigate the problem of information theoretically secure communication in a line network with erasure channels and state feedback. We consider a spectrum of cases for the private randomness that intermediate nodes can generate,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Athanasios Papadopoulos , Laszlo Czap , Christina Fragouli

The problem of secure lossy source-channel wiretapping with arbitrarily correlated side informations at both receivers is investigated. This scenario consists of an encoder (referred to as Alice) that wishes to compress a source and send it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Joffrey Villard , Pablo Piantanida , Shlomo Shamai

The rate regions of many variations of the standard and wire-tap channels have been thoroughly explored. Secrecy capacity characterizes the loss of rate required to ensure that the adversary gains no information about the transmissions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Jake Perazzone , Eric Graves , Paul Yu , Rick Blum

This paper characterizes the secret message capacity of three networks where two unicast sessions share some of the communication resources. Each network consists of erasure channels with state feedback. A passive eavesdropper is assumed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli

This letter considers a network comprising a transmitter, which employs random linear network coding to encode a message, a legitimate receiver, which can recover the message if it gathers a sufficient number of linearly independent coded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Amjad Saeed Khan , Andrea Tassi , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

In this paper, the problem of securely computing a function over the binary modulo-2 adder multiple-access wiretap channel is considered. The problem involves a legitimate receiver that wishes to reliably and efficiently compute a function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mario Goldenbaum , Holger Boche , H. Vincent Poor

Incorporating the physical layer characteristics to secure communications has received considerable attention in recent years. Moreover, cooperation with some nodes of network can give benefits of multiple-antenna systems, increasing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-10 Meysam Mirzaee , Soroush Akhlaghi

We study a four terminal parallel relay-eavesdropper channel which consists of multiple independent relay-eavesdropper channels as subchannels. For the discrete memoryless case, we establish inner and outer bounds on the rate-equivocation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-10 Zohaib Hassan Awan , Abdellatif Zaidi , Luc Vandendorpe

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

Most practical communication links are bi-directional. In these models, since the source node also receives signals, its encoder has the option of computing its output based on the signals it received in the past. On the other hand, from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-24 Xiang He , Aylin Yener

A new channel coding approach was proposed in [1] for random multiple access communication over the discrete-time memoryless channel. The coding approach allows users to choose their communication rates independently without sharing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zheng Wang , Jie Luo

We introduce a new measure on secrecy, which is established based on rate-distortion theory. It is named \emph{security rate}, which is the minimum (infimum) of the additional rate needed to reconstruct the source within target distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Lei Yu , Houqiang Li , Weiping Li