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We consider the situation in which a transmitter attempts to communicate reliably over a discrete memoryless channel while simultaneously ensuring covertness (low probability of detection) with respect to a warden, who observes the signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Matthieu R. Bloch

Leakage of information in power line communication networks is a threat to privacy and security both in smart grids and in-home applications. A way to enhance security is to encode the transmitted information with a secret key. Relying on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Federico Passerini , Andrea M. Tonello

We focus on a scenario where two wireless source nodes wish to exchange confidential information via an RF energy harvesting untrusted two-way relay. Despite its cooperation in forwarding the information, the relay is considered untrusted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Vipul Gupta , Sanket S Kalamkar , Adrish Banerjee

We consider secret key generation from relative localization information of a pair of nodes in a mobile wireless network in the presence of a mobile eavesdropper. Our problem can be categorized under the source models of information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Onur Gungor , Fangzhou Chen , C. Emre Koksal

In this work, inspired by secret sharing schemes, we introduce a privacy-preserving approach for network consensus, by which all nodes in a network can reach an agreement on their states without exposing the individual state to neighbors.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Silun Zhang , Thomas Ohlson Timoudas , Munther Dahleh

This paper derives upper and lower bounds on the secrecy capacity-memory tradeoff of a wiretap erasure broadcast channel (BC) with Kw weak receivers and Ks strong receivers, where weak receivers, respectively strong receivers, have same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Sarah Kamel , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger , Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman

Exchange of secret keys over public channels based on neural synchronization using a variety of learning rules offer an appealing alternative to number theory based cryptography algorithms. Though several forms of attacks are possible on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Sandip Chakraborty , Jiban Dalal , Bikramjit Sarkar , Debaprasad Mukherjee

A new generalised approach for multiple correlated sources over a wiretap network is investigated. A basic model consisting of two correlated sources where each produce a component of the common information is initially investigated. There…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-06 Reevana Balmahoon , Ling Cheng

This paper considers the problem of secret communication over a multiple access channel with generalized feedback. Two trusted users send independent confidential messages to an intended receiver, in the presence of a passive eavesdropper.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

The security of neural cryptography is investigated. A key-exchange protocol over a public channel is studied where the parties exchanging secret messages use multilayer neural networks which are trained by their mutual output bits and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Mislovaty , Y. Perchenok , Ido Kanter , Wolfgang Kinzel

We propose an artificial-noise alignment scheme for multicasting a common-confidential message to a group of receivers. Our scheme transmits a superposition of information and noise symbols. The noise symbols are aligned at each legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-21 Ashish Khist , Dongye Zhang

In this paper, we consider a more general four-terminal memoryless relay-eavesdropper channel with state information (REC-SI) and derive an achievable perfect secrecy rate for it. We suppose that the state information is non-causally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Nematollah Zarmehi

A scheme for secure communications, called ``Secret-message Transmission by Echoing Encrypted Probes (STEEP)'', is revisited. STEEP is a round-trip scheme with a probing phase from one user to another and an echoing phase in the reverse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Yingbo Hua

This work considers load-balance control among the relays under the secure transmission protocol via relay cooperation in two-hop wireless networks without the information of both eavesdropper channels and locations. The available two-hop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang , Jianfeng Ma

Recently, a secrecy measure based on list-reconstruction has been proposed [2], in which a wiretapper is allowed to produce a list of $2^{mR_{L}}$ reconstruction sequences and the secrecy is measured by the minimum distortion over the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Lei Yu , Houqiang Li , Weiping Li

This paper studies physical-layer secure transmissions from a transmitter to a legitimate receiver against an eavesdropper over slow fading channels, taking into account the impact of finite blocklength secrecy coding. A comprehensive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

In a recent Letter [G. Chiribella et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 120501 (2007)], four protocols were proposed to secretly transmit a reference frame. Here We point out that in these protocols an eavesdropper can change the transmitted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fei Gao , Fen-Zhuo Guo , Qiao-Yan Wen , Fu-Chen Zhu

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

The feasibility of physical-layer-based security approaches for wireless communications in the presence of one or more eavesdroppers is hampered by channel conditions. In this paper, cooperation is investigated as an approach to overcome…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Lun Dong , Zhu Han , Athina P. Petropulu , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, an anti-eavesdropping estimation problem is investigated. A linear encryption scheme is utilized, which first linearly transforms innovation via an encryption matrix and then encrypts some components of the transformed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Zhongyao Hu , Bo Chen , Pindi Weng , Jianzheng Wang , Li Yu