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Suppose Alice wishes to send messages to Bob through a communication channel C_1, but her transmissions also reach an eavesdropper Eve through another channel C_2. The goal is to design a coding scheme that makes it possible for Alice to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Hessam Mahdavifar , Alexander Vardy

Suppose Alice wishes to send messages to Bob through a communication channel C_1, but her transmissions also reach an eavesdropper Eve through another channel C_2. The goal is to design a coding scheme that makes it possible for Alice to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-05 Hessam Mahdavifar , Alexander Vardy

Quantum reading provides a general framework where to formulate the statistical discrimination of quantum channels. Several paths have been taken for such a problem. However, there is much to be done in the avenue of optimizing channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Francisco Revson F. Pereira , Stefano Mancini

A polar coding scheme is proposed for the Wiretap Broadcast Channel with two legitimate receivers and one eavesdropper. We consider a model in which the transmitter wishes to send different confidential (and non-confidential) information to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jaume del Olmo , Javier R. Fonollosa

Polar codes have been proven to be capacity achieving for any binary-input discrete memoryless channel, while at the same time they can reassure secure and reliable transmission over the single-input single-output wireless channel. However,…

Combined with one-time pad encryption scheme, quantum key distribution guarantees the unconditional security of communication in theory. However, error correction and privacy amplification in the post-processing phase of quantum key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Junbing Fang , Zhengzhong Yi , Jin Li , Zhipeng Liang , Yulin Wu , Wen Lei , Zoe Lin Jiang , Xuan Wang

We construct a new entanglement-assisted quantum polar coding scheme which achieves the symmetric coherent information rate by synthesizing "amplitude" and "phase" channels from a given, arbitrary quantum channel. We first demonstrate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 Mark M. Wilde , Joseph M. Renes

We determine the secrecy capacities under common randomness assisted coding of arbitrarily varying classical-quantum wiretap channels.Furthermore, we determine the secrecy capacity of a mixed channel model which is compound from the sender…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Holger Boche , Minglai Cai , Christian Deppe , Janis Nötzel

In this paper, we propose a low-complexity, secrecy capacity achieving polar coding scheme for the cognitive interference channel with confidential messages (CICC) under the strong secrecy criterion. Existing polar coding schemes for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Mengfan Zheng , Wen Chen , Cong Ling

Quantum key distribution relies on quantum mechanics to securely distribute cryptographic keys, offering security but necessitating complex infrastructure and significant resources for practical implementation. Quantum keyless private…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Pedro Neto Mendes , Davide Rusca , Hugo Zbinden , Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro

We show how to use decoherence-free subspaces over collective-noise quantum channels to convey classical information in perfect secrecy. We argue that codes defined over decoherence-free subspaces are codes for quantum wiretap channels in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Elloá B. Guedes , Francisco M. de Assis

This paper proposes an efficient secret key cryptosystem based on polar codes over Binary Erasure Channel. We introduce a method, for the first time to our knowledge, to hide the generator matrix of the polar codes from an attacker. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Reza Hooshmand , Masoumeh Koochak Shooshtari , Mohammad Reza Aref

Polar coding, introduced 2008 by Arikan, is the first (very) efficiently encodable and decodable coding scheme whose information transmission rate provably achieves the Shannon bound for classical discrete memoryless channels in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-17 Joseph M. Renes , Frederic Dupuis , Renato Renner

Different polar coding schemes are proposed for the memoryless degraded broadcast channel under different reliability and secrecy requirements: layered decoding and/or layered secrecy. In this setting, the transmitter wishes to send…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Jaume del Olmo , Javier R. Fonollosa

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) enables two parties to establish a common secret key that is information-theoretically secure by transmitting random bits that are encoded as qubits and sent over a quantum channel, followed by classical…

In this paper, we investigate the secure coding issue for a wiretap channel model with fixed main channel and varying wiretap channel, by assuming that legitimate parties can obtain the wiretapping channel state information (CSI) after some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yizhi Zhao , Hongmei Chi

The adversarial wiretap channel (AWTC) model is a secure communication model in which adversary can directly read and write the transmitted bits in legitimate communication with fixed fractions. In this paper we propose a secure polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yizhi Zhao

The wiretap channel model of Wyner is one of the first communication models with both reliability and security constraints. Capacity-achieving schemes for various models of the wiretap channel have received considerable attention in recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Talha Cihad Gulcu , Alexander Barg

We study the performance of polarizing codes over a degraded symmetric wiretap channel under a total variation distance (TVD) secrecy constraint. We show that the leakage can be bounded by the sum of the TVDs of the bit-channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Laura Luzzi , Valerio Bioglio

A capacity-achieving scheme based on polar codes is proposed for reliable communication over multi-channels which can be directly applied to bit-interleaved coded modulation schemes. We start by reviewing the ground-breaking work of polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Hessam Mahdavifar , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang