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We explore the additional security obtained by noise at the physical layer in a wiretap channel model setting. Security enhancements at the physical layer have been proposed recently using a secrecy metric based on the degrees of freedom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-24 W. K. Harrison , J. Almeida , S. W. McLaughlin , J. Barros

Information-theoretically secure communications are possible when channel noise is usable and when the channel has an intrinsic characteristic that a legitimate receiver (Bob) can use the noise more advantageously than an eavesdropper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Tatsuya Tomaru

This work considers the two-way wiretap channel in which two legitimate users, Alice and Bob, wish to exchange messages securely in the presence of a passive eavesdropper Eve. In the full-duplex scenario, where each node can transmit and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-04 Aly El Gamal , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Moustafa Youssef , Hesham El Gamal

Providing security guarantees for wireless communication is critically important for today's applications. While previous work in this area has concentrated on radio frequency (RF) channels, providing security guarantees for RF channels is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Amine Laourine , Aaron B. Wagner

Correlated sources are present in communication systems where protocols ensure that there is some predetermined information for sources to transmit. Here, two correlated sources across a channel with eavesdroppers are investigated, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-06 R. Balmahoon , H. Vinck , L. Cheng

In this two-part paper, we consider the transmission of confidential data over wireless wiretap channels. The first part presents an information-theoretic problem formulation in which two legitimate partners communicate over a quasi-static…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Matthieu Bloch , Joao Barros , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues , Steven W. McLaughlin

We consider a system where an agent (Alice) aims at transmitting a message to a second agent (Bob) over a set of parallel channels, while keeping it secret from a third agent (Eve) by using physical layer security techniques. We assume that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Marco Baldi , Marco Bianchi , Franco Chiaraluce , Nicola Laurenti , Stefano Tomasin , Francesco Renna

We propose a new proof method for direct coding theorems for wiretap channels where the eavesdropper has access to a quantum version of the transmitted signal on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space and the legitimate parties communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelaković , Janis Nötzel , Sławomir Stańczak

We consider a wiretap channel and use previously transmitted messages to generate a secret key which increases the secrecy capacity. This can be bootstrapped to increase the secrecy capacity to the Shannon capacity without using any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shahid Mehraj Shah , Parameswaran S , Vinod Sharma

With the increasing demand for secure communication in optical space networks, it is essential to develop physical-layer scalable security solutions. In this context, we present the asymptotic security analysis of a keyless quantum private…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Angeles Vazquez-Castro , Andreas Winter , Hugo Zbinden

A wiretap channel is served as the fundamental model of physical layer security techniques, where the secrecy capacity of the Gaussian wiretap channel is proven to be achieved by Gaussian input. However, there remains a gap between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Li Shen , Yongpeng Wu , Peihong Yuan , Chengshan Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Wenjun Zhang

Information-theoretic work for wiretap channels is mostly based on random coding schemes. Designing practical coding schemes to achieve information-theoretic security is an important problem. By applying the two recently developed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Yi-Peng Wei , Sennur Ulukus

Message Authentication Code (MAC) is a keyed function $f_K$ such that when Alice, who shares the secret $K$ with Bob, sends $f_K(M)$ to the latter, Bob will be assured of the integrity and authenticity of $M$. Traditionally, it is assumed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Dajiang Chen , Shaoquan Jiang , Zhiguang Qin

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 a private and a confidential message that must be reliably…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Jaume del Olmo Alos , Javier R. Fonollosa

Traditional cryptography assumes an eavesdropper receives an error-free copy of the transmitted ciphertext. Wyner's wiretap channel model recognizes that at the physical layer both the intended receiver and the passive eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Willie K Harrison , Steven W. McLaughlin

This paper presents further insights into a recently developed round-trip communication scheme called ``Secret-message Transmission by Echoing Encrypted Probes (STEEP)''. A legitimate wireless channel between a multi-antenna user (Alice)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yingbo Hua , Md Saydur Rahman

The Unshared Secret Key Cryptography (USK), recently proposed by the authors, guarantees Shannon's ideal secrecy and perfect secrecy for MIMO wiretap channels, without requiring secret key exchange. However, the requirement of infinite…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Shuiyin Liu , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

In this paper we consider the variable-length lossless source coding for discrete memoryless sources. We proposes a new encryption framework for securely transmitting codewords over a noiseless channel. The proposed source encryption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yasutada Oohama , Bagus Santoso

Despite several works on secrecy coding for fading and MIMO wiretap channels from an error probability perspective, the construction of information-theoretically secure codes over such channels remains an open problem. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Laura Luzzi , Roope Vehkalahti , Cong Ling

This paper develops a new physical layer framework for secure two-way wireless communication in the presence of a passive eavesdropper, i.e., Eve. Our approach achieves perfect information theoretic secrecy via a novel randomized scheduling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-27 Aly El Gamal , Moustafa Youssef , Hesham El Gamal