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We formulate the interaction between the communicating nodes and an adversary within a game-theoretic context. We show that earlier information-theoretic capacity results for a jammed channel correspond to a pure Nash Equilibrium (NE).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Koorosh Firouzbakht , Guevara Noubir , Masoud Salehi

Wyner's elegant model of wiretap channel exploits noise in the communication channel to provide perfect secrecy against a computationally unlimited eavesdropper without requiring a shared key. We consider an adversarial model of wiretap…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Pengwei Wang , Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

This paper considers the problem of securing a linear network coding system against an adversary that is both an eavesdropper and a jammer. The network is assumed to transport n packets from source to each receiver, and the adversary is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Danilo Silva , Frank R. Kschischang

Shared randomness is the central ingredient for stabilizing symmetrizable communication systems against arbitrarily varying jammers. Given the presence of the jammer, however, the question arises how this precious resource could have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Janis Nötzel , Florian Seitz

In this paper, we propose a self-dependent two-way secure communication where two sources exchange confidential messages via a wireless powered untrusted amplify-and-forward (AF) relay and friendly jammer (FJ). By adopting the time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Abbas Mohammadi , Phee Lep Yeoh , Ali Kuhestani

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 investigate adversarial network coding and decoding focusing on the multishot regime. Errors can occur on a proper subset of the network edges and are modeled via an adversarial channel. The paper contains both bounds and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Giuseppe Cotardo , Gretchen L. Matthews , Alberto Ravagnani , Julia Shapiro

This paper studies a new and challenging wireless surveillance problem where a legitimate monitor attempts to eavesdrop two suspicious communication links simultaneously. To facilitate concurrent eavesdropping, our multi-antenna legitimate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Haiyang Zhang , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

A downlink single-input single-output non-orthogonal multiple access system is considered in which a base station (BS) is communicating with two legitimate users in the presence of an external eavesdropper. A group of trusted cooperative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Ahmed Arafa , Wonjae Shin , Mojtaba Vaezi , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper we investigate cooperative secure communications in a four-node cognitive radio network where the secondary receiver is treated as a potential eavesdropper with respect to the primary transmission. The secondary user is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-06 Pin-Hsun Lin , Frédéric Gabry , Ragnar Thobaben , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Mikael Skoglund

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided jamming technique for enabling physical layer keyless security in scenarios where the exact eavesdropper location is unknown. We assume that the unknown eavesdropper location is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Christantus O. Nnamani , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Mathini Sellathurai

We investigate the stability problem for discrete-time stochastic switched linear systems under the specific scenarios where information about the switching patterns and the probability of switches are not available. Our analysis focuses on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Ahmet Cetinkaya , Hideaki Ishii , Tomohisa Hayakawa

In this paper, we examine the secrecy performance of two-way relaying between a multiple antenna base station (BS) and a single antenna mobile user (MU) in the presence of a multiple antenna friendly jammer (FJ). We consider the untrusted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Ali Kuhestani , Phee Lep Yeoh , Abbas Mohammadi

The growing need for reliable communication over untrusted networks has caused a renewed interest in adversarial channel models, which often behave much differently than traditional stochastic channel models. Of particular practical use is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Vinayak Suresh , Eric Ruzomberka , David J. Love

We consider a cache-aided communications system in which a transmitter communicates with many receivers over an erasure broadcast channel. The system serves as a basic model for communicating on-demand content during periods of high network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Roy Timo , Michele Wigger

Broadcasting in wireless networks is vulnerable to adversarial jamming. To thwart such behavior, \emph{resource competitive analysis} is proposed. In this framework, sending, listening, or jamming on one channel for one time slot costs one…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Haimin Chen , Chaodong Zheng

Wireless communication can be simply subjected to malicious attacks due to its open nature and shared medium. Detecting jamming attacks is the first and necessary step to adopt the anti-jamming strategies. This paper presents novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Amir Mehrabian , Georges Kaddoum

This paper studies the wireless surveillance of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) based suspicious communication link over Rayleigh fading channels. We propose a proactive eavesdropping approach, where a half-duplex monitor can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Jie Xu , Kai Li , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

We study two-way covert communication schemes, where information is transmitted by passively modulating a reflected signal back to the source. We consider optical systems, described by quantum bosonic channels. While broadband classical and…

Secure communication over a wiretap channel is considered in the disadvantaged wireless environment, where the eavesdropper channel is (possibly much) better than the main channel. We present a method to exploit inherent vulnerabilities of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Dennis Goeckel , Hossein Pishro-Nik