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Privacy-preserving state estimation for linear time-invariant dynamical systems with crowd sensors is considered. At any time step, the estimator has access to measurements from a randomly selected sensor from a pool of sensors with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Farhad Farokhi

We consider a 1-to-$K$ communication scenario, where a source transmits private messages to $K$ receivers through a broadcast erasure channel, and the receivers feed back strictly causally and publicly their channel states after each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-11 László Czap , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

We consider periodical status updates between a transmitter and a legitimate receiver, in the presence of an eavesdropper that is sometimes able to capture pieces of information. We assume that, in the absence of such a threat, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Laura Crosara , Nicola Laurenti , Leonardo Badia

In this paper, we revisit the problem of characterizing the secrecy capacity of minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes under the passive $(l_1,l_2)$-eavesdropper model, where the eavesdropper has access to data stored on $l_1$ nodes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Kun Huang , Udaya Parampalli , Ming Xian

This paper considers secure energy-efficient routing in the presence of multiple passive eavesdroppers. Previous work in this area has considered secure routing assuming probabilistic or exact knowledge of the location and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Majid Ghaderi , Hossein Pishro-Nik , Dennis Goeckel

We propose a simple yet efficient scheme for a set of energy-harvesting sensors to establish secure communication with a common destination (a master node). An eavesdropper attempts to decode the data sent from the sensors to their common…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Ahmed El Shafie , Naofal Al-Dhahir

The secrecy rate region of wiretap interference channels with a multi-antenna passive eavesdropper is studied under receiver energy harvesting constraints. To stay operational in the network, the legitimate receivers demand energy alongside…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ali Kariminezhad , Zohaib Hassan Awan , Hendrik Vogt , Aydin Sezgin

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, the broadcast nature of wireless channels makes SemCom systems vulnerable to eavesdropping, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shunpu Tang , Yuhao Chen , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Zhiguo Shi

Regenerating codes based on the approach of interference alignment for wireless interference channel achieve the cut-set bound for distributed storage systems. These codes provide data reliability, and perform efficient exact node repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Natasa Paunkoska , Ninoslav Marina , Venceslav Kafedziski

The additional degree of freedom (DoF) in the distance domain of near-field communication offers new opportunities for physical layer security (PLS) design. However, existing works mainly consider static eavesdroppers, and the related study…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Yiming Xu , Mingxuan Zheng , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song , Daniel Benevides da Costa

The existing research on physical layer security commonly assumes the number of eavesdropper antennas to be known. Although this assumption allows one to easily compute the achievable secrecy rate, it can hardly be realized in practice. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou , Thushara D. Abhayapala

We propose a new framework for determining the wiretap code rates of single-input single-output multi-antenna eavesdropper (SISOME) wiretap channels when the capacity of the eavesdropper's channel is not available at the transmitter. In our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Shihao Yan , Nan Yang , Giovanni Geraci , Robert Malaney , Jinhong Yuan

This work considers the problem of mitigating information leakage between communication and sensing in systems jointly performing both operations. Specifically, a discrete memoryless state-dependent broadcast channel model is studied in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Onur Günlü , Matthieu R. Bloch , Rafael F. Schaefer , Aylin Yener

This work considers the problem of mitigating information leakage between communication and sensing in systems jointly performing both operations. Specifically, a discrete memoryless state-dependent broadcast channel model is studied in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Onur Günlü , Matthieu Bloch , Rafael F. Schaefer , Aylin Yener

Dynamic average consensus is a decentralized control/estimation framework where a group of agents cooperatively track the average of local time-varying reference signals. In this paper, we develop a novel state decomposition-based privacy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Kaixiang Zhang , Zhaojian Li , Yongqiang Wang , Ali Louati , Jian Chen

The safety of a quantum key distribution system relies on the fact that any eavesdropping attempt on the quantum channel creates errors in the transmission. For a given error rate, the amount of information that may have leaked to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Huttner , N. Imoto , N. Gisin , T. Mor

This paper focuses on a networked state estimation problem for a spatially large linear system with a distributed array of sensors, each of which offers partial state measurements, and the transmission is lossy. We propose a measurement…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Tianju Sui , Damian Marelli , Ximing Sun , Minyue Fu

This paper examines linear beamforming methods for secure communications in a multiuser wiretap channel with a single transmitter, multiple legitimate receivers, and a single eavesdropper, where all nodes are equipped with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Amitav Mukherjee , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, we consider a scenario where a source node wishes to broadcast two confidential messages to two receivers, while a wire-tapper also receives the transmitted signal. This model is motivated by wireless communications, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-20 Ghadamali Bagherikaram , Abolfazl S. Motahari , Amir K. Khandani

Imperfect secrecy in communication systems is investigated. Instead of using equivocation as a measure of secrecy, the distortion that an eavesdropper incurs in producing an estimate of the source sequence is examined. The communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Curt Schieler , Eva C. Song , Paul Cuff , H. Vincent Poor