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In this paper, we consider the problem of secret key generation with one-way communication through both a rate-limited public channel and a rate-limited secure channels where the public channel is from Alice to Bob and Eve and the secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Yinfei Xu , Daming Cao

The frequency selectivity of wireless communication channels can be characterized by the delay spread Ds of the channel impulse response. If the delay spread is small compared to the bandwidth W of the input signal, that is, Ds*W…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-07 Georg Böcherer , Daniel Bielefeld

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of secret key agreement in state-dependent 3-receiver broadcast channels. In the proposed model, there are two legitimate receivers, an eavesdropper and a transmitter where the channel state…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Mohsen Bahrami , Ali Bereyhi , Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Mohammad Reza Aref

This paper develops a novel framework for sharing secret keys using the well-known Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) protocol. The proposed key sharing protocol does not assume any prior knowledge about the channel state information (CSI),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-04 Mohamed Abdel Latif , Ahmed Sultan , Hesham El Gamal

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

A string is sent over a noisy channel that erases some of its characters. Knowing the statistical properties of the string's source and which characters were erased, a listener that is equipped with an ability to test the veracity of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Mark M. Christiansen , Ken R. Duffy , Flavio du Pin Calmon , Muriel Medard

We investigate the delay limited secrecy capacity of the flat fading channel under two different assumptions on the available transmitter channel state information (CSI). The first scenario assumes perfect prior knowledge of both the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Karim Khalil , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Hesham El Gamal , Moustafa Youssef

Revealing expressions of secret-key capacity (SKC) based on data sets from Gaussian MIMO channel probing are presented. It is shown that Maurer's upper and lower bounds on SKC coincide when the used data sets are produced from one-way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yingbo Hua , Ahmed Maksud

The physical-layer key generation is a lightweight technique to generate secret keys from wireless channels for resource-constrained Internet of things (IoT) applications. The security of key generation relies on spatial decorrelation,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Lu Yang , Yansong Gao , Junqing Zhang , Seyit Camtepe , Dhammika Jayalath

The reciprocity of channel state information (CSI) collected by two devices communicating over a wireless channel has been leveraged to provide security solutions to resource-limited IoT devices. Despite the extensive research that has been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Nora Basha , Bechir Hamdaoui

This article presents a novel method for establishing an information theoretically secure encryption key over wireless channels. It exploits the fact that data transmission over wireless links is accompanied by packet error, while noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Amir K. Khandani

In this paper, we study the secrecy rate and outage probability in Multiple-Input-Single-Output (MISO) Gaussian wiretap channels at the limit of a large number of legitimate users and eavesdroppers. In particular, we analyze the asymptotic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Joseph Kampeas , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

In this paper, we consider the secrecy capacity of a wiretap channel in the presence of causal state information and secure rate-limited feedback. In this scenario, the causal state information from the channel is available to both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Alejandro Cohen , Asaf Cohen

Alice and Bob want to share a secret key and to communicate an independent message, both of which they desire to be kept secret from an eavesdropper Eve. We study this problem of secret communication and secret key generation when two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Krishnan Eswaran , Kannan Ramchandran

This paper presents automatic key generation for long-range wireless communications in low power wide area networks (LPWANs), employing LoRa as a case study. Differential quantization is adopted to extract a high level of randomness.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Junqing Zhang , Alan Marshall , Lajos Hanzo

The secrecy rate region of wiretap interference channels with a multi-antenna passive eavesdropper is studied under receiver energy harvesting constraints. To stay operational in the network, the legitimate receivers demand energy alongside…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ali Kariminezhad , Zohaib Hassan Awan , Hendrik Vogt , Aydin Sezgin

Physical-layer key generation (PLKG) has emerged as a promising technique to secure next-generation wireless networks by exploiting the inherent properties of the wireless channel. However, PLKG faces fundamental challenges in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Poorya Mollahosseini , Yasaman Ghasempour

Providing security guarantees for wireless communication is critically important for today's applications. While previous work in this area has concentrated on radio frequency (RF) channels, providing security guarantees for RF channels is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Amine Laourine , Aaron B. Wagner

We study covert secret key generation over a binary-input two-user multiple access channel with one-way public discussion and derive bounds on the capacity region. Specifically, in this problem, there are three legitimate parties: Alice,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yingxin Zhang , Lin Zhou , Qiaosheng Zhang