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We study covert communications over binary-input discrete memoryless alarm two-way channels, in which two users interact through a two-way channel and attempt to hide the presence of their communication from an eavesdropping receiver. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Tuna Erdoğan , Tyler Kann , Aria Nosratinia , Matthieu Bloch

The technique of cooperative communications is finding its way in the next generations of many wireless communication applications. Due to the distributed nature of cooperative networks, acquiring fading channels information for coherent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-18 M. R. Avendi

Due to the vital role of security in online communications and this fact that attackers are developing their tools, modernizing the security tools is an essential. The efficiency of crypto systems has been proven after years, however one…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mahboubeh Nazari , Sousan Tarahomi , Sobhan Aliabady

We derive the capacity region of the degraded broadcast channel (DBC) subject to the constraint that the communication is not detected by an adversary, the Warden. Our capacity result is in a computable form and numerical results show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yossef Steinberg , Michèle Wigger

We discuss a discrete-time model for motion of substance in a channel of a network. For the case of stationary motion of the substance and for the case of time-independent values of the parameters of the model we obtain a new class of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-25 Nikolay K. Vitanov , Kaloyan N. Vitanov

Coded caching is an information theoretic scheme to reduce high peak hours traffic by partially prefetching files in the users local storage during low peak hours. This paper considers heterogeneous decentralized caching systems where cache…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Mozhgan Bayat , Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Covert channel attacks have been continuously studied as severe threats to modern computing systems. Software-based covert channels are a typically hard-to-detect branch of these attacks, since they leverage virtual resources to establish…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez , Jose Alejandro Ibarra-Campos , Jesus Yamir Sandoval-Morales , Lars Bauer , Jörg Henkel

We study covert queueing channels (CQCs), which are a kind of covert timing channel that may be exploited in shared queues across supposedly isolated users. In our system model, a user sends messages to another user via his pattern of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-31 AmirEmad Ghassami , Negar Kiyavash

Recent works have considered the ability of transmitter Alice to communicate reliably to receiver Bob without being detected by warden Willie. These works generally assume a standard discrete-time model. But the assumption of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Ke Li , Don Towsley , Dennis Goeckel

This paper establishes the fundamental limits of a two-user single-receiver system where communication from User 1 (but not from User 2) needs to be undetectable to an external warden. Our fundamental limits show a tradeoff between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

The covert capacity is characterized for a non-coherent fast Rayleigh-fading wireless channel, in which a legitimate user wishes to communicate reliably with a legitimate receiver while escaping detection from a warden. It is shown that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Anne Savard , Matthieu R. Bloch

Covert communication allows us to transmit messages in such a way that it is not possible to detect that the communication is occurring. This provides protection in situations where knowledge that people are talking to each other may be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Ryan Amiri

The wiretap channel models secure communication between two users in the presence of an eavesdropper who must be kept ignorant of transmitted messages. The performance of such a system is usually characterized by its secrecy capacity which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Holger Boche , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

This paper presents a unified framework for analyzing the input-output behavior of discrete time complex networks viewed as open systems. Importantly, we focus on systems that are inherently modeled in discrete time-such as opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-25 Amirhossein Nazerian , MAlbor Asllani , Melvyn Tyloo , Francesco Sorrentino

We consider a scenario in which $K$ transmitters attempt to communicate covert messages reliably to a legitimate receiver over a discrete memoryless MAC while simultaneously escaping detection from an adversary who observes their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam , Matthieu R. Bloch

Social network analysis tools can infer various attributes just by scrutinizing one's connections. Several researchers have studied the problem faced by an evader whose goal is to strategically rewire their social connections in order to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-29 Marcin Waniek , Petter Holme , Talal Rahwan

Secret sharing over the fast-fading MIMO wiretap channel is considered. A source and a destination try to share secret information over a fast-fading MIMO channel in the presence of a wiretapper who also makes channel observations that are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-12 Tan F. Wong , Matthieu Bloch , John M. Shea

Detection and quantification of information leaks through timing side channels are important to guarantee confidentiality. Although static analysis remains the prevalent approach for detecting timing side channels, it is computationally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Pavol Cerny , Sriram Sankaranarayanan , Ashutosh Trivedi

Network covert channels are used to hide communication inside network protocols. Within the last decades, various techniques for covert channels arose. We surveyed and analyzed 109 techniques developed between 1987 and 2013 and show that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Steffen Wendzel , Sebastian Zander , Bernhard Fechner , Christian Herdin

We study navigation with limited information in networks and demonstrate that many real-world networks have a structure which can be described as favoring communication at short distance at the cost of constraining communication at long…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Rosvall , P. Minnhagen , K. Sneppen