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The coding problem for wiretap channels with causal channel state information (CSI) available at the encoder (Alice) and/or the decoder (Bob) is studied. We are concerned here particularily with the problem of achievable secret-message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Te Sun Han , Masahide Sasaki

Conventional communication systems are mainly designed to reduce error rates and increase transmission rates, and therefore usually provide uniform protection to all transmitted messages. However, in intent-oriented applications, different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Qiming Lu , Shan Lu , Takaya Yamazato

Current methods which compress multisets at an optimal rate have computational complexity that scales linearly with alphabet size, making them too slow to be practical in many real-world settings. We show how to convert a compression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Daniel Severo , James Townsend , Ashish Khisti , Alireza Makhzani , Karen Ullrich

A secure set $S$ in a graph is defined as a set of vertices such that for any $X\subseteq S$ the majority of vertices in the neighborhood of $X$ belongs to $S$. It is known that deciding whether a set $S$ is secure in a graph is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Bernhard Bliem , Stefan Woltran

In Index coding there is a single sender with multiple messages and multiple receivers each wanting a different set of messages and knowing a different set of messages a priori. The Index Coding problem is to identify the minimum number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Kavitha. R , B. Sundar Rajan

Graph pattern matching is a routine process for a wide variety of applications such as social network analysis. It is typically defined in terms of subgraph isomorphism which is NP-Complete. To lower its complexity, many extensions of graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Houari Mahfoud

Security against eavesdropping is one of the key concerns in the design of any communication system. Many common considerations of the security of a wireless communication channel rely on comparing the signal level measured by Bob (the…

The index coding problem is concerned with broadcasting encoded information to a collection of receivers in a way that enables each receiver to discover its required data based on its side information, which comprises the data required by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Dror Chawin , Ishay Haviv

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

Graph-structured data is central to many scientific and industrial domains, where the goal is often to optimize objectives defined over graph structures. Given the combinatorial complexity of graph spaces, such optimization problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Shiqiang Zhang , Ruth Misener

This paper introduces a methodology based on Euclidean information theory to investigate local properties of secure communication over discrete memoryless wiretap channels. We formulate a constrained optimization problem that maximizes a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Emmanouil M. Athanasakos , Nicholas Kalouptsidis , Hariprasad Manjunath

Protecting against link failures in communication networks is essential to increase robustness, accessibility, and reliability of data transmission. Recently, network coding has been proposed as a solution to provide agile and cost…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Salah A. Aly , Ahmed E. Kamal

The widely studied edge modification problems ask how to minimally alter a graph to satisfy certain structural properties. In this paper, we introduce and study a new edge modification problem centered around transforming a given graph into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Amirali Madani , Anil Maheshwari , Babak Miraftab , Paweł Żyliński

In secure network coding, there is a possibility that the eavesdropper can improve her performance when she changes (contaminates) the information on the attacked edges (active attack) and chooses the attacked edges adaptively (adaptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Ning Cai , Masahito Hayashi

We consider a wireless broadcast station that transmits packets to multiple users. The packet requests for each user may overlap, and some users may already have certain packets. This presents a problem of broadcasting in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-10 Michael J. Neely , Arash Saber Tehrani , Zhen Zhang

In order to make more complex number-based strings from topological coding for defending against the intelligent attacks equipped with quantum computing and providing effective protection technology for the age of quantum computing, we will…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Bing Yao , Fei Ma

This paper investigates the maximal secret communication rate over a wiretap channel subject to reliability and secrecy constraints at a given blocklength. New achievability and converse bounds are derived, which are uniformly tighter than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Wei Yang , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

Considering a communication topology of a wireless network modeled by a graph where an edge exists between two nodes if they are within each other's communication range. A subset $U$ of nodes is a dominating set if each node is either in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Xiaohua Xu , Xiang-Yang Li

This paper considers the problem of end-end security enhancement by resorting to deliberate noise injected in ciphertexts. The main goal is to generate a degraded wiretap channel in application layer over which Wyner-type secrecy encoding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Yahya S. Khiabani , Shuangqing Wei , Jian Yuan , Jian Wang

The problem of coding for networks experiencing worst-case symbol errors is considered. We argue that this is a reasonable model for highly dynamic wireless network transmissions. We demonstrate that in this setup prior network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Qiwen Wang , Sidharth Jaggi