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Secure communication is considered with unreliable entanglement assistance, where the adversary may intercept the legitimate receiver's entanglement resource before communication takes place. The communication setting of unreliable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Meir Lederman , Uzi Pereg

We study the secrecy capacity in the vicinity of colluding eavesdroppers. Contrary to the perfect collusion assumption in previous works, our new information-theoretic model considers constraints in collusion. We derive the achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Mahtab Mirmohseni , Panagiotis Papadimitratos

This paper studies the problem of secure communication over broadcast channels under the individual secrecy constraints. That is, the transmitter wants to send two independent messages to two legitimate receivers in the presence of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Yanling Chen , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Aydin Sezgin

In physical-layer security, one of the most fundamental issues is the secrecy capacity. The objective of this paper is to determine the secrecy capacity for an indoor visible light communication system consisting of a transmitter, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Jin-Yuan Wang , Xian-Tao Fu , Jun-Bo Wang , Min Lin , Julian Cheng , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We analyze the secrecy outage probability in the downlink for wireless networks with spatially (Poisson) distributed eavesdroppers (EDs) under the assumption that the base station employs transmit antenna selection (TAS) to enhance secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Gaojie Chen , Justin P. Coon , Marco Di Renzo

This paper studies the problem of remote state estimation in the presence of a passive eavesdropper. A sensor measures a linear plant's state and transmits it to an authorized user over a packet-dropping channel, which is susceptible to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Anastasios Tsiamis , Konstantinos Gatsis , George Pappas

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

This work addresses private communication with distributed systems in mind. We consider how to best use secret key resources and communication to transmit signals across a system so that an eavesdropper is least capable to act on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paul Cuff

Pinching-antenna systems have recently gained significant attention as a novel reconfigurable-antenna technology due to its exceptional capability of mitigating signal-propagation path loss. In this letter, we investigate the secrecy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Nianzu Li , Weidong Mei , Lipeng Zhu , Peiran Wu , Boyu Ning

We study the secrecy of wireless channels in the presence of an eavesdropper, where the channels are random and the transmitter only has knowledge of the channel statistics. We investigate the optimal input distribution with respect to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Clement Leroy , Tarak Arbi , Benoit Geller , Olivier Rioul

In this paper, secure transmission of information over fading broadcast channels is studied in the presence of statistical queueing constraints. Effective capacity is employed as a performance metric to identify the secure throughput of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-02 Deli Qiao , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

In this paper, we explore the physical-layer security of a multi-user wireless system that consists of multiple users intending to transmit to a base station (BS), while multiple eavesdroppers attempt to tap the user transmissions. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yulong Zou , Jia Zhu , Gongpu Wang , Hua Shao

We consider reversely-degraded secure-communication channels, for which the secrecy capacity is zero if there is no channel feedback. Specifically, we focus on a seeded modular code design for the block-fading Gaussian wiretap channel with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yingyao Zhou , Natasha Devroye , Onur Günlü

From the perspective of information theory and cryptography, we analyze the security of two quantum dialogue protocols and a bidirectional quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) protocol, and point out that the transmitted information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-04 Fei Gao , Fen-Zhuo Guo , Qiao-Yan Wen , Fu-Chen Zhu

An information-theoretic confidential communication is achievable if the eavesdropper has a degraded channel compared to the legitimate receiver. In wireless channels, beamforming and artificial noise can enable such confidentiality.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin

Security is one of the major concerns of modern communication systems. Users demand a secure communication environment that provides privacy to the people while they are sharing messages to anyone. Privacy is a prime concern nowadays. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Akm. B. Haque , Md. A. Bari , S. S. Arman , FT. Progga

This paper technically explores the secrecy rate $\Lambda$ and a maximisation problem over the concave version of the secrecy outage probability (SOP) as $\mathop{{\rm \mathbb{M}ax}}\limits_{\Delta } {\rm \; } \mathbb{P}\mathscr{r} \big(…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Makan Zamanipour

This paper investigates the physical layer security (PLS) performance of $\alpha$-$\mathcal{F}$ fading channels with pointing errors under passive and active eavesdropping scenarios. Novel analytical expressions are derived for key PLS…

Secrecy issues of free-space optical links realizing information theoretically secure communications as well as high transmission rates are discussed. We numerically study secrecy communication rates of optical wiretap channel based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Hiroyuki Endo , Te Sun Han , Takao Aoki , Masahide Sasaki

We consider the problem of secure communication with multi-antenna transmission in fading channels. The transmitter simultaneously transmits an information bearing signal to the intended receiver and artificial noise to the eavesdroppers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay