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In this work we consider the communication of information in the presence of a causal adversarial jammer. In the setting under study, a sender wishes to communicate a message to a receiver by transmitting a codeword $(x_1,...,x_n)$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bikash Kumar Dey , Sidharth Jaggi , Michael Langberg , Anand D. Sarwate

Covert communication is the undetected transmission of sensitive information over a communication channel. In wireless communication systems, channel impairments such as signal fading present challenges in the effective implementation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amir Reza Ramtin , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley

We obtain strict upper bounds on the bit transmission rate for communication of Classical bit codewords over Quantum channels. Albeit previous arguments in arXiv: 1804.01797 which have demonstrated that lower bounds can be shown to hold for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Pete Rigas

The study of the fundamental limits of covert communications, where a transmitter Alice wants to send information to a desired recipient Bob without detection of that transmission by an attentive and capable warden Willie, has emerged…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-16 Moslem Forouzesh , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari , Dennis Goeckel

Suppose that Alice and Bob are located in distant laboratories, which are connected by an ideal quantum channel. Suppose further that they share many copies of a quantum state $\rho_{ABE}$, such that Alice possesses the $A$ systems and Bob…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Kunal Sharma , Eyuri Wakakuwa , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum communication addresses the problem of exchanging information across macroscopic distances by employing encryption techniques based on quantum mechanical laws. Here, we advance a new paradigm for secure quantum communication by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 R. Di Candia , H. Yiğitler , G. S. Paraoanu , R. Jäntti

Alice and Bob want to run a protocol over a noisy channel, where a certain number of bits are flipped adversarially. Several results take a protocol requiring $L$ bits of noise-free communication and make it robust over such a channel. In a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Varsha Dani , Thomas P. Hayes , Mahnush Movahedi , Jared Saia , Maxwell Young

A secret-key generation scheme based on a layered broadcasting strategy is introduced for slow-fading channels. In the model considered, Alice wants to share a key with Bob while keeping the key secret from Eve, who is a passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-17 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

We present a scheme for direct and confidential communication between Alice and Bob, where there is no need for establishing a shared secret key first, and where the key used by Alice even will become known publicly. The communication is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Almut Beige , Berthold-Georg Englert , Christian Kurtsiefer , Harald Weinfurter

We investigate the problem of reliable communication in the presence of active adversaries that can tamper with the transmitted data. We consider a legitimate transmitter-receiver pair connected over multiple communication paths (routes).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Mahtab Mirmohseni , Panagiotis Papadimitratos

This paper considers the problem of covert communication with mismatched decoding, in which a sender wishes to reliably communicate with a receiver whose decoder is fixed and possibly sub-optimal, and simultaneously to ensure that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Qiaosheng Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Covert communications enable a transmitter to send information reliably in the presence of an adversary, who looks to detect whether the transmission took place or not. We consider covert communications over quasi-static block fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou

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

In this paper, we investigate covert communication over millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies. In particular, a mmWave transmitter, referred to as Alice, attempts to reliably communicate to a receiver, referred to as Bob, while hiding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

We introduce and analyse a multiple-access channel with two senders and one receiver, in the presence of i.i.d. noise coming from the environment. Partial side information about the environmental states allows the senders to modulate their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Janis Nötzel

In this paper, we investigate the realization of covert communication in a general radar-communication cooperation system, which includes integrated sensing and communications as a special example. We explore the possibility of utilizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xinyi Wang , Zesong Fei , Peng Liu , J. Andrew Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Nan Wu

This letter investigates the secret communication problem for a fluid antenna system (FAS)-assisted wiretap channel, where the legitimate transmitter transmits an information-bearing signal to the legitimate receiver, and at the same time,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Wee Kiat New , Guyue Li , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Yongxu Zhu , Shi Jin , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

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

In order to avoid the risk of information leakage during the information mutual transmission between two authorized participants, i.e., Alice and Bob, a quantum dialogue protocol based on the entanglement swapping between any two Bell…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Tian-Yu Ye , Li-Zhen Jiang

We investigate the transmission of a secret message from Alice to Bob in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve) and many of decode-and-forward relay nodes. Each link comprises a set of parallel channels, modeling for example an orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Linda Senigagliesi , Marco Baldi , Stefano Tomasin