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In Part I of this two-part paper on confidential communication over wireless channels, we studied the fundamental security limits of quasi-static fading channels from the point of view of outage secrecy capacity with perfect and imperfect…

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

Covert communication aims to shield the very existence of wireless transmissions in order to guarantee a strong security in wireless networks. In this work, for the first time we examine the possibility and achievable performance of covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jinsong Hu , Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper investigates an information-theoretic model of secure semantic-aware communication. For this purpose, we consider the lossy joint source-channel coding (JSCC) of a memoryless semantic source transmitted over a memoryless wiretap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Denis Kozlov , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

The secrecy performance in both near-field and far-field communications is analyzed using two fundamental metrics: the secrecy capacity under a power constraint and the minimum power requirement to achieve a specified secrecy rate target.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Boqun Zhao , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

In the splitting model, information theoretic authentication codes allow non-deterministic encoding, that is, several messages can be used to communicate a particular plaintext. Certain applications require that the aspect of secrecy should…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-02 Michael Huber

We consider the MIMO wiretap channel, that is a MIMO broadcast channel where the transmitter sends some confidential information to one user which is a legitimate receiver, while the other user is an eavesdropper. Perfect secrecy is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-11 Frédérique Oggier , Babak Hassibi

Covert communications hide the transmission of a message from a watchful adversary while ensuring a certain decoding performance at the receiver. In this work, a wireless communication system under fading channels is considered where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Feng Shu , Jun Li

We consider networks of noisy degraded wiretap channels in the presence of an eavesdropper. For the case where the eavesdropper can wiretap at most one channel at a time, we show that the secrecy capacity region, for a broad class of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Theodoros K. Dikaliotis , Hongyi Yao , Tracey Ho , Michelle Effros , Joerg Kliewer

Secure quantum communication traditionally assumes that the adversary controls only the public channel. We consider a more powerful adversary who can demand private information of users. This type of adversary has been studied in public key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Trey Li

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has recently drawn significant interests for its dual use of radio signals to provide wireless data and energy access at the same time. However, a challenging secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Hong Xing , Liang Liu , Rui Zhang

We study information theoretical security for space links between a satellite and a ground-station. Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a well established method for information theoretical secure communication, giving the eavesdropper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 A. Vazquez-Castro , D. Rusca , H. Zbinden

Theoretical computer science has found fertile ground in many areas of mathematics. The approach has been to consider classical problems through the prism of computational complexity, where the number of basic computational steps taken to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Shafi Goldwasser

We present six multiparty protocols with information-theoretic security that tolerate an arbitrary number of corrupt participants. All protocols assume pairwise authentic private channels and a broadcast channel (in a single case, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Anne Broadbent , Alain Tapp

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are foreseen to constitute promising airborne communication devices as a benefit of their superior channel quality. But UAV-to-ground (U2G) communications are vulnerable to eavesdropping. Hence, we conceive a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Zhong Zheng , Xinyao Wang , Zesong Fei , Qingqing Wu , Bin Li , Lajos Hanzo

Deception is a common defense mechanism against adversaries with an information disadvantage. It can force such adversaries to select suboptimal policies for a defender's benefit. We consider a setting where an adversary tries to learn the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Filippos Fotiadis , Aris Kanellopoulos , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis , Ufuk Topcu

We determine the covert capacity for entanglement generation over a noisy quantum channel. While secrecy guarantees that the transmitted information remains inaccessible to an adversary, covert communication ensures that the transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Ohad Kimelfeld , Boulat A. Bash , Uzi Pereg

Recent works have considered the ability of transmitter Alice to communicate reliably to receiver Bob without being detected by warden Willie. These works generally assume a standard discrete-time model. But the assumption of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Ke Li , Don Towsley , Dennis Goeckel

Computer network is unpredictable due to information warfare and is prone to various attacks. Such attacks on network compromise the most important attribute, the privacy. Most of such attacks are devised using special communication channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Anjan K , Jibi Abraham , Mamatha Jadhav

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

We consider a cascade network where a sequence of nodes each send a message to their downstream neighbor to enable coordination, the first node having access to an information signal. An adversary also receives all of the communication as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Paul Cuff