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In this paper, we derive information-theoretic performance limits for secure and reliable communications over the general two-user discrete memoryless broadcast channel with side-information at the transmitter. The sender wishes to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-27 K. G. Nagananda , Chandra R Murthy , Shalinee Kishore

Broadcast protocols enable a set of $n$ parties to agree on the input of a designated sender, even facing attacks by malicious parties. In the honest-majority setting, randomization and cryptography were harnessed to achieve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Erica Blum , Elette Boyle , Ran Cohen , Chen-Da Liu-Zhang

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

We examine fundamental tradeoffs in iterative distributed zeroth and first order stochastic optimization in multi-agent networks in terms of \emph{communication cost} (number of per-node transmissions) and \emph{computational cost},…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Anit Kumar Sahu , Dusan Jakovetic , Dragana Bajovic , Soummya Kar

A new channel coding approach was proposed in [1] for random multiple access communication over the discrete-time memoryless channel. The coding approach allows users to choose their communication rates independently without sharing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zheng Wang , Jie Luo

The celebrated asynchronous computability theorem (ACT) characterizes tasks solvable in the read-write shared-memory model using the unbounded full-information protocol, where in every round of computation, each process shares its complete…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Guillermo Toyos-Marfurt , Petr Kuznetsov

We prove new bounds on the quantum communication complexity of the disjointness and equality problems. For the case of exact and non-deterministic protocols we show that these complexities are all equal to n+1, the previous best lower bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 Peter Hoyer , Ronald de Wolf

Secrecy in communication systems is measured herein by the distortion that an adversary incurs. The transmitter and receiver share secret key, which they use to encrypt communication and ensure distortion at an adversary. A model is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Curt Schieler , Paul Cuff

Here we prove an asymptotically optimal lower bound on the information complexity of the k-party disjointness function with the unique intersection promise, an important special case of the well known disjointness problem, and the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-11 André Gronemeier

Achieving agreement among distributed parties is a fundamental task in modern systems, underpinning applications such as consensus in blockchains, coordination in cloud infrastructure, and fault tolerance in critical services. However, this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Andrei Constantinescu , Marc Dufay , Anton Paramonov , Roger Wattenhofer

In 1927, Heisenberg heuristically disclosed the tradeoff between the error in the measurement and the caused disturbance on another complementary observable. In the quantum theory, most of uncertainty relations are proposed to reveal the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Li-Yi Hsu

We consider memoryless quantum communication protocols, where the two parties do not possess any memory besides their classical input and they take turns performing unitary operations on a pure quantum state that they exchange between them.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-10 André Chailloux , Iordanis Kerenidis , Mathieu Laurière

Communication complexity refers to the minimum rate of public communication required for generating a maximal-rate secret key (SK) in the multiterminal source model of Csiszar and Narayan. Tyagi recently characterized this communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Manuj Mukherjee , Navin Kashyap

We develop a novel and powerful technique for communication lower bounds, the pattern matrix method. Specifically, fix an arbitrary function f:{0,1}^n->{0,1} and let A_f be the matrix whose columns are each an application of f to some…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-06-24 Alexander A. Sherstov

The performance of an error correcting code is evaluated by its error probability, rate, and en/decoding complexity. The performance of a series of codes is evaluated by, as the block lengths approach infinity, whether their error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Hsin-Po Wang

A new approach to the problem of error correction in communication channels is proposed, in which the input sequence is transformed in such a way that the interdependence of symbols is significantly increased. Then, after the sequence is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Boris Ryabko

We consider the problem of distributed binary hypothesis testing of two sequences that are generated by an i.i.d. doubly-binary symmetric source. Each sequence is observed by a different terminal. The two hypotheses correspond to different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Eli Haim , Yuval Kochman

This paper studies the Shannon regime for the random displacement of stationary point processes. Let each point of some initial stationary point process in $\R^n$ give rise to one daughter point, the location of which is obtained by adding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Venkat Anantharam , Francois Baccelli

The bounded storage model restricts the memory of an adversary in a cryptographic protocol, rather than restricting its computational power, making information theoretically secure protocols feasible. We present the first protocols for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Rafael Dowsley , Felipe Lacerda , Anderson C. A. Nascimento

We study cost-effective communication strategies that can be used to improve the performance of distributed learning systems in resource-constrained environments. For distributed learning in sequential decision making, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Udari Madhushani , Naomi Ehrich Leonard