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Satellite networks provide unique challenges that can restrict users' quality of service. For example, high packet erasure rates and large latencies can cause significant disruptions to applications such as video streaming or voice-over-IP.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Jason Cloud , Muriel Medard

In this paper we show that the Index Coding problem captures several important properties of the more general Network Coding problem. An instance of the Index Coding problem includes a server that holds a set of information messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-12 Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson , Costas Georghiades

One of the main issues in modern network science is the phenomenon of cascading failures of a small number of attacks. Here we define the dimension of a network to be the maximal number of functions or features of nodes of the network. It…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-01 Angsheng Li , Wei Zhang , Yicheng Pan

Security aspects of the Index Coding with Side Information (ICSI) problem are investigated. Building on the results of Bar-Yossef et al. (2006), the properties of linear coding schemes for the ICSI problem are further explored. The notion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-29 Son Hoang Dau , Vitaly Skachek , Yeow Meng Chee

We consider the problem of secure communication over a network in the presence of wiretappers. We give a new cut-set bound on secrecy capacity which takes into account the contribution of both forward and backward edges crossing the cut,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-29 Wentao Huang , Tracey Ho , Michael Langberg , Joerg Kliewer

The rapid deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) requires careful consideration of their effect on cybersecurity. Our work aims to improve the selection process of LLMs that are suitable for facilitating Secure Coding (SC). This raises…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Anton Rydén , Erik Näslund , Elad Michael Schiller , Magnus Almgren

In network coding, we discuss the effect of sequential error injection on information leakage. We show that there is no improvement when the operations in the network are linear operations. However, when the operations in the network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Masahito Hayashi , Masaki Owari , Go Kato , Ning Cai

Software needs to be secure, in particular, when deployed to critical infrastructures. Secure coding guidelines capture practices in industrial software engineering to ensure the security of code. This study aims to assess the level of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Tiago Espinha Gasiba , Ulrike Lechner , Maria Pinto-Albuquerque , Daniel Mendez Fernandez

Increasing network utilization is often considered as the holy grail of communications. In this article, the concept of sub-rate coding and decoding in the framework of linear network coding (LNC) is discussed for single-source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Ben Grinboim , Itay Shrem , Ofer Amrani

In practice, since many communication networks are huge in scale, or complicated in structure, or even dynamic, the predesigned linear network codes based on the network topology is impossible even if the topological structure is known.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu

Differential linear network coding (DLNC) is a precoding scheme for information transmission over random linear networks. By using differential encoding and decoding, the conventional approach of lifting, required for inherent channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-29 Sven Puchinger , Michael Cyran , Robert F. H. Fischer , Martin Bossert , Johannes B. Huber

Security of wireless sensor network (WSN) is always considered a critical issue and has a number of considerations that separate them from traditional wireless sensor network. First, sensor devices are typically vulnerable to physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-26 Nasrin Sultana , Tanvir Ahmed , A. B. M. Siddique Hossain

In this paper we consider the problem of secure network coding where an adversary has access to an unknown subset of links chosen from a known collection of links subsets. We study the capacity region of such networks, commonly called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Shirin Jalali , Tracey Ho

The problem of securing a network coding communication system against a wiretapper adversary is considered. The network implements linear network coding to deliver $n$ packets from source to each receiver, and the wiretapper can eavesdrop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Danilo Silva , Frank R. Kschischang

Random linear network coding is a particularly decentralized approach to the multicast problem. Use of random network codes introduces a non-zero probability however that some sinks will not be able to successfully decode the required…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Adria Tauste-Campo , Alex Grant

We construct a universal secure network coding. Our construction just modifies the transmission scheme at the source node and works with every linear coding at an intermediate node. We relax the security criterion such that the mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-17 Ryutaroh Matsumoto

A code equivalence between index coding and network coding was established, which shows that any index-coding instance can be mapped to a network-coding instance, for which any index code can be translated to a network code with the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Lawrence Ong , Jörg Kliewer , Badri N. Vellambi , Phee Lep Yeoh

Secure network function computation is a critical research direction in network coding, which aims to ensure that the target function is correctly computed at the sink node while preventing the wiretapper from obtaining any information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Qin Zhou , Fang-Wei Fu

By allowing intermediate nodes to perform non-trivial operations on packets, such as mixing data from multiple streams, network coding breaks with the ruling store and forward networking paradigm and opens a myriad of challenging security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-09-09 Luísa Lima , João P. Vilela , Paulo F. Oliveira , João Barros

Information leakage to a guessing adversary in index coding is studied, where some messages in the system are sensitive and others are not. The non-sensitive messages can be used by the server like secret keys to mitigate leakage of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yucheng Liu , Lawrence Ong , Phee Lep Yeoh , Parastoo Sadeghi , Joerg Kliewer , Sarah Johnson