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Fingerprinting is a technique in communication complexity in which two parties (Alice and Bob) with large data sets send short messages to a third party (a referee), who attempts to compute some function of the larger data sets. For the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 J. Niel de Beaudrap

We consider the symmetric Gaussian interference channel where two users try to enhance their secrecy rates in a cooperative manner. Artificial noise is introduced along with useful information. We derive the power control and artificial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jingge Zhu , Jianhua Mo , Meixia Tao

Conventionally, interference and noise are treated as catastrophic elements in wireless communications. However, it has been shown recently that exploiting known interference constructively can even contribute to signal detection ability at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Christos Masouros , Kai-Kit Wong

Physical layer security offers an efficient means to decrease the risk of confidential information leakage through wiretap links. In this paper, we address the physical-layer security in a cooperative wireless subnetwork that includes a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Saeed Vahidian , Sajad Hatamnia , Benoit Champagne

Now-a-days, speech-based biometric systems such as automatic speaker verification (ASV) are highly prone to spoofing attacks by an imposture. With recent development in various voice conversion (VC) and speech synthesis (SS) algorithms,…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Dipjyoti Paul , Monisankha Pal , Goutam Saha

In this paper, we investigate multi-message authentication to combat adversaries with infinite computational capacity. An authentication framework over a wiretap channel $(W_1,W_2)$ is proposed to achieve information-theoretic security with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-19 Dajiang Chen , Ning Zhang , Nan Cheng , Kuan Zhang , Kan Yang , Zhiguang Qin , Xuemin Shen

Given a noiseless protocol $\pi_0$ computing a function $f(x, y)$ of Alice and Bob's private inputs $x, y$, the goal of interactive coding is to construct an error-resilient protocol $\pi$ computing $f$ such that even if some fraction of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Meghal Gupta , Rachel Yun Zhang

Physical layer authentication relies on detecting unique imperfections in signals transmitted by radio devices to isolate their fingerprint. Recently, deep learning-based authenticators have increasingly been proposed to classify devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Samurdhi Karunaratne , Enes Krijestorac , Danijela Cabric

We investigate the physical layer security of uplink single-carrier frequency-division multiple-access (SC-FDMA) systems. Multiple users, Alices, send confidential messages to a common legitimate base-station, Bob, in the presence of an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Mohamed F. Marzban , Ahmed El Shafie , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Ridha Hamila

Alice and Bob are connected via a two-way channel, and Alice wants to send a message of $L$ bits to Bob. An adversary flips an arbitrary but finite number of bits, $T$, on the channel. This adversary knows our algorithm and Alice's message,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Abhinav Aggarwal , Varsha Dani , Thomas Hayes , Jared Saia

We study an extension of the standard two-party communication model in which Alice and Bob hold probability distributions $p$ and $q$ over domains $X$ and $Y$, respectively. Their goal is to estimate \[ \mathbb{E}_{x \sim p,\, y \sim…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Parikshit Gopalan , Raghu Meka , Prasad Raghavendra , Mihir Singhal , Avi Wigderson

We investigate the quantum-secure covert-communication capabilities of lossy thermal-noise bosonic channels, the quantum-mechanical model for many practical channels. We determine the expressions for the covert capacity of these channels:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Christos N. Gagatsos , Michael S. Bullock , Boulat A. Bash

We consider the private classical capacity of a quantum wiretap channel, where the users (sender Alice, receiver Bob, and eavesdropper Eve) have access to the resource of a shared quantum state, additionally to their channel inputs and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Minglai Cai , Andreas Winter

The broadcast nature of the wireless medium and openness of wireless standards, e.g., 3GPP releases 16-20, invite adversaries to launch various active and passive attacks on cellular and other wireless networks. This work identifies one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Ali Hanif , Abdulrahman Katranji , Nour Kouzayha , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Key agreement is a fundamental cryptographic primitive. It has been proved that key agreement protocols with security against computationally unbounded adversaries cannot exist in a setting where Alice and Bob do not have dependent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Reihaneh Safavi-Naini , Pengwei Wang

In this paper, we study the problem of the 1-of-2 string oblivious transfer (OT) between Alice and Bob in the presence of a passive eavesdropper Eve. The eavesdropper Eve is not allowed to get any information about the private data of Alice…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Tianyou Pei , Wei Kang , Nan Liu

This paper addresses the establishment of secure communication links between smart-meters (Alice) and an aggregator (Bob) in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve). The proposed scenario assumes: (i) MIMOME wiretap channel; (ii) transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Hirley Alves , Mauricio Tomé , Pedro H. J. Nardelli , Carlos H. M. de Lima , Matti Latva-aho

Conditional disclosure of secrets (CDS) is the problem of disclosing as efficiently as possible, one secret from Alice and Bob to Carol if and only if the inputs at Alice and Bob satisfy some function $f$. The information theoretic capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Zhou Li , Hua Sun

Inverse precoding algorithms in multimode fiber based communication networks are used to exploit mode dependent losses on the physical layer. This provides an asymmetry between legitimate (Bob) and unlegitimate (Eve) receiver of messages…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Stefan Rothe , Nektarios Koukourakis , Hannes Radner , Andrew Lonnstrom , Eduard Jorswieck , Jürgen W. Czarske

In this work, we consider a scenario where two multiple-aperture legitimate nodes (Alice and Bob) communicate by means of Free-Space Optical (FSO) communication in the presence of a multiple-aperture eavesdropper (Eve), which is subject to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Marcos Eduardo Pivaro Monteiro , João Luiz Rebelatto , Glauber Brante , Richard Demo Souza