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We define a variation on the well-known problem of private message transmission. This new problem called private randomness agreement (PRA) gives two participants access to a public, authenticated channel alongside the main channels, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-15 René Bødker Christensen , Petar Popovski

The next generation of wireless communications systems will employ new frequency bands such as those in the upper midband, millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz frequency bands. The high energy consumption of analog-to-digital converters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 D. Melo , L. Landau , R. de Lamare

In this paper, we investigate two variants of the secretary problem. In these variants, we are presented with a sequence of numbers $X_i$ that come from distributions $\mathcal{D}_i$, and that arrive in either random or adversarial order.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Pranav Nuti , Jan Vondrák

We consider the point-to-point message passing model of communication in which there are $k$ processors with individual private inputs, each $n$-bit long. Each processor is located at the node of an underlying undirected graph and has…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Arkadev Chattopadhyay , Sagnik Mukhopadhyay

Theoreticians have studied distributed algorithms in the radio network model for close to three decades. A significant fraction of this work focuses on lower bounds for basic communication problems such as wake-up (symmetry breaking among…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-29 Calvin Newport

Channel uncertainty and co-channel interference are two major challenges in the design of wireless systems such as future generation cellular networks. This paper studies receiver design for a wireless channel model with both time-varying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Yan Zhu , Dongning Guo , Michael L. Honig

The index coding problem is studied from an interference alignment perspective, providing new results as well as new insights into, and generalizations of, previously known results. An equivalence is established between multiple unicast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Hamed Maleki , Viveck R. Cadambe , Syed A. Jafar

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

In this paper, we consider a distributed reception scenario where a transmitter broadcasts a signal to multiple geographically separated receive nodes over fading channels, and each node forwards a few bits representing a processed version…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Junil Choi , David J. Love , Patrick Bidigare

We show strongly secret achievable rate regions for two different wiretap multiple-access channel coding problems. In the first problem, each encoder has a private message and both together have a common message to transmit. The encoders…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Moritz Wiese , Holger Boche

We study error exponents for source coding with side information. Both achievable exponents and converse bounds are obtained for the following two cases: lossless source coding with coded information (SCCSI) and lossy source coding with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Benjamin G. Kelly , Aaron B. Wagner

Low probability of detection (or covert) communication refers to the scenario where information must be sent reliably to a receiver, but with low probability of detection by an adversary. Recent works on the fundamental limits of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Nick Letzepis

In this paper we show that the Index Coding problem captures several important properties of the more general Network Coding problem. An instance of the Index Coding problem includes a server that holds a set of information messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-12 Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson , Costas Georghiades

Many online problems are studied in stochastic settings for which inputs are samples from a known distribution, given in advance, or from an unknown distribution. Such distributions model both beyond-worst-case inputs and, when given,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Gregory Kehne , Thomas Kesselheim

Lossless variable-length source coding with unequal cost function is considered for general sources. In this problem, the codeword cost instead of codeword length is important. The infimum of average codeword cost has already been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Ryo Nomura , Toshiyasu Matsushima

In this paper, we consider a recently-proposed model of teaching and learning under uncertainty, in which a teacher receives independent observations of a single bit corrupted by binary symmetric noise, and sequentially transmits to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yan Hao Ling , Jonathan Scarlett

The two-sender unicast index coding problem is the most fundamental multi-sender index coding problem. The two senders collectively cater to the demands of all the receivers, by taking advantage of the knowledge of their side-information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Chinmayananda Arunachala , B. Sundar Rajan

This work investigates the probability that the delay and the peak-age of information exceed a desired threshold in a point-to-point communication system with short information packets. The packets are generated according to a stationary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Rahul Devassy , Giuseppe Durisi , Guido Carlo Ferrante , Osvaldo Simeone , Elif Uysal

There are numerous scenarios in source coding where not only the code length but the importance of each value should also be taken into account. Different from the traditional coding theorems, by adding the importance weights for the length…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Zheqi Zhu , Shanyun Liu , Rui She , Shuo Wan , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

In this first part, a computable outer bound is proved for the multiterminal source coding problem, for a setup with two encoders, discrete memoryless sources, and bounded distortion measures.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sergio D. Servetto