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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 gaining a lot of interest due to it being the first coding scheme to provably achieve the symmetric capacity of a binary memoryless channel with an explicit construction. However, the main drawback of polar codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Heshani Gamage , Vismika Ranasinghe , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

We present a mechanism to manifest unobtainable secrets using a nested Shamir secret sharing scheme to create public/private key pairs for elliptic curves. A threshold secret sharing scheme can be used as a decentralised trust mechanism…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 J. L. Hall , Y. Hertzog , M. Loewy , M. P. Skerritt , D. Valladolid , G. Verma

A reduced complexity sequential decoding algorithm for polar (sub)codes is described. The proposed approach relies on a decomposition of the polar (sub)code being decoded into a number of outer codes, and on-demand construction of codewords…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Grigorii Trofimiuk , Nikolay Iakuba , Stanislav Rets , Kirill Ivanov , Peter Trifonov

This paper proposes a method to optimize communication code rates via the application of neural polar decoders (NPDs). Employing this approach enables simultaneous optimization of code rates over input distributions while providing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ziv Aharoni , Bashar Huleihel , Henry D Pfister , Haim H Permuter

Multilevel coding (MLC) is a coded modulation technique which can achieve excellent performance over a range of communication channels. Polar codes have been shown to be quite compatible with communication systems using MLC, as the rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Muhammad Zaeem Hasan , Nemanja Stefan Perović , Mark F. Flanagan

Polar codes with memory (PCM) are proposed in this paper: a pair of consecutive code blocks containing a controlled number of mutual information bits. The shared mutual information bits of the succeeded block can help the failed block to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Wenyue Zhou , Qiang Liu , Yifei Shen , Xiaofeng Zhou , Chuan Zhang , Yaohua Xu , Liping Li

We present a novel distributed computing framework that is robust to slow compute nodes, and is capable of both approximate and exact computation of linear operations. The proposed mechanism integrates the concepts of randomized sketching…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

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…

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

Polar codes are novel and efficient error correcting codes with low encoding and decoding complexities. These codes have a channel dependent generator matrix which is determined by the code dimension, code length and transmission channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Reza Hooshmand , Masoumeh Koochak Shooshtari , Mohammad Reza Aref

We consider polar codes for memoryless sources with side information and show that the blocklength, construction, encoding and decoding complexities are bounded by a polynomial of the reciprocal of the gap between the compression rate and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Jingbo Liu , Emmanuel Abbe

Polar codes are one of the most recent advancements in coding theory and they have attracted significant interest. While they are provably capacity achieving over various channels, they have seen limited practical applications.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Georgios Karakonstantis , Andreas Burg

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

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,…

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

Using a mild variant of polar codes we design linear compression schemes compressing Hidden Markov sources (where the source is a Markov chain, but whose state is not necessarily observable from its output), and to decode from Hidden Markov…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Venkatesan Guruswami , Preetum Nakkiran , Madhu Sudan

A lossy source coding problem with privacy constraint is studied in which two correlated discrete sources $X$ and $Y$ are compressed into a reconstruction $\hat{X}$ with some prescribed distortion $D$. In addition, a privacy constraint is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Farshid Mokhtarinezhad , Joerg Kliewer , Osvaldo Simeone

We consider a coded cooperative data exchange problem with the goal of generating a secret key. Specifically, we investigate the number of public transmissions required for a set of clients to agree on a secret key with probability one,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-02 Thomas A. Courtade , Thomas R. Halford

The polarization phenomenon for a single source is extended to a framework with multiple correlated sources. It is shown in addition to extracting the randomness of the source, the polar transforms takes the original arbitrary dependencies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Emmanuel Abbe