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In this paper we consider a wiretap channel with a secret key buffer. We use the coding scheme of [1] to enhance the secrecy rate to the capacity of the main channel, while storing each securely transmitted message in the secret key buffer.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Shahid Mehraj Shah , Vinod Sharma

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, the broadcast nature of wireless channels makes SemCom systems vulnerable to eavesdropping, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shunpu Tang , Yuhao Chen , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Zhiguo Shi

In this paper, the one-sided secrecy of two-way wiretap channel with feedback is investigated, where the confidential messages of one user through multiple transmissions is guaranteed secure against an external eavesdropper. For one thing,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Chao Qi , Yanling Chen , A. J. Han Vinck , Xiaohu Tang

In this paper we consider tandem error control coding and cryptography in the setting of the {\em wiretap channel} due to Wyner. In a typical communications system a cryptographic application is run at a layer above the physical layer and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Willie K Harrison , Steven W. McLaughlin

A simple four node network in which cooperation improves the information-theoretic secrecy is studied. The channel consists of two senders, a receiver, and an eavesdropper. One or both senders transmit confidential messages to the receiver,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-18 Ninoslav Marina , Hideki Yagi , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the problem of secure communications over the two-way wiretap channel under a strong secrecy criterion. We improve existing results by developing an achievable region based on strategies that exploit both the interference at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Alexandre J. Pierrot , Matthieu R. Bloch

We consider the MIMO wiretap channel, that is a MIMO broadcast channel where the transmitter sends some confidential information to one user which is a legitimate receiver, while the other user is an eavesdropper. Perfect secrecy is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-11 Frédérique Oggier , Babak Hassibi

The theory of quantum cryptography aims to guarantee unconditional information-theoretic security against an omnipotent eavesdropper. In many practical scenarios, however, the assumption of an all-powerful adversary is excessive and can be…

The secrecy capacity of relay channels with orthogonal components is studied in the presence of an additional passive eavesdropper node. The relay and destination receive signals from the source on two orthogonal channels such that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-09 Vaneet Aggarwal , Lalitha Sankar , A. Robert Calderbank , H. Vincent Poor

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, we consider the use of artificial noise for secure communications. We propose the notion of practical secrecy as a new design criterion based on the behavior of the eavesdropper's error probability $P_E$, as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Shuiyin Liu , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

We consider a wireless communication system with a passive eavesdropper, in which a transmitter and legitimate receiver generate and use key bits to secure the transmission of their data. These bits are added to and used from a pool of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Karl-Ludwig Besser , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

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

Key extraction via measuring a physical quantity is a class of information theoretic key exchange protocols that rely on the physical characteristics of the communication channel to enable the computation of a shared key by two (or more)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Matt Edman , Aggelos Kiayias , Qiang Tang , Bulent Yener

We propose a new proof method for direct coding theorems for wiretap channels where the eavesdropper has access to a quantum version of the transmitted signal on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space and the legitimate parties communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelaković , Janis Nötzel , Sławomir Stańczak

In this paper, we investigate secure and reliable transmission strategies for multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a multi-antenna active eavesdropper. We consider a time-division duplex system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Yongpeng Wu , Robert Schober , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chengshan Xiao , Giuseppe Caire

Secure communication in a potentially malicious environment becomes more and more important. The arbitrarily varying wiretap channel (AVWC) provides information theoretical bounds on how much information can be exchanged even in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Carsten Rudolf Janda , Moritz Wiese , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Holger Boche

This paper studies a new active eavesdropping technique via the so-called spoofing relay attack, which could be launched by the eavesdropper to significantly enhance the information leakage rate from the source over conventional passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

The broadcast nature of the wireless medium allows unintended users to eavesdrop the confidential information transmission. In this regard, we investigate the problem of secure communication between a source and a destination via a wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Sanket S. Kalamkar , Adrish Banerjee

Security against eavesdropping is one of the key concerns in the design of any communication system. Many common considerations of the security of a wireless communication channel rely on comparing the signal level measured by Bob (the…