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Wireless energy harvesting constitutes an effective way to prolong the lifetime of wireless networks. In this paper, an opportunistic decode-and-forward cooperative communication system is investigated, where the energy-constrained relays…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Yanju Gu

This paper investigates covert wireless communication with a Fusion Center (FC) that aggregates raw energy measurements from multiple Wardens via soft fusion. Extending our prior work on power-threshold randomization, we consider a stronger…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Abbas Arghavani , Subhrakanti Dey , Anders Ahlen

We introduce a simple model illustrating the role of context in communication and the challenge posed by uncertainty of knowledge of context. We consider a variant of distributional communication complexity where Alice gets some information…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Badih Ghazi , Ilan Komargodski , Pravesh Kothari , Madhu Sudan

Acquiring accurate channel state information (CSI) is critical for reliable and efficient wireless communication, but challenges such as high pilot overhead and channel aging hinder timely and accurate CSI acquisition. CSI prediction, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Mehdi Sattari , Javad Aliakbari , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Tommy Svensson

We study the following private data transfer problem: Alice has a database of files. Bob and Cathy want to access a file each from this database (which may or may not be the same file), but each of them wants to ensure that their choices of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Manoj Mishra , Tanmay Sharma , Bikash K. Dey , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

Covert communication's effectiveness critically depends on precise channel state information (CSI). This paper investigates the impact of imperfect CSI on achievable covert communication performance in a two-hop relay system. Firstly, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqing Bai , Ji He , Yanping Chen , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang

Alice and Bob want to share a secret key and to communicate an independent message, both of which they desire to be kept secret from an eavesdropper Eve. We study this problem of secret communication and secret key generation when two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Krishnan Eswaran , Kannan Ramchandran

In this paper, we study resource allocation algorithm design for power efficient secure communication with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (WIPT) in multiuser communication systems. In particular, we focus on power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Shiyang Leng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Communication channels are said to be underspread if their coherence time is greater than their delay spread. In such cases it can be shown that in the infinite bandwidth limit the information capacity tends to that of a channel with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Steven Herbert , Ian Wassell , Tian-Hong Loh

Distributed computing models typically assume reliable communication between processors. While such assumptions often hold for engineered networks, e.g., due to underlying error correction protocols, their relevance to biological systems,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Ofer Feinerman , Bernhard Haeupler , Amos Korman

We propose a communication protocol exploiting correlations between two events with a definite time-ordering: a) the outcome of a {\em weak measurement} on a spin, and b) the outcome of a subsequent ordinary measurement on the spin. In our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alonso Botero , Benni Reznik

Traditional radio systems are strictly co-designed on the lower levels of the OSI stack for compatibility and efficiency. Although this has enabled the success of radio communications, it has also introduced lengthy standardization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-16 Colin de Vrieze , Shane Barratt , Daniel Tsai , Anant Sahai

We propose a new scheme to enhance the physical-layer security of wireless single-input single-output orthogonal-frequency division-multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions from an electric vehicle, Alice, to the aggregator, Bob, in the presence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ahmed El Shafie , Mohamed F. Marzban , Rakan Chabaan , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In many wireless communication systems, radios are subject to a duty cycle constraint, that is, a radio only actively transmits signals over a fraction of the time. For example, it is desirable to have a small duty cycle in some low power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-24 Lei Zhang , Hui Li , Dongning Guo

We consider a wiretap channel with an eavesdropper (Eve) and an honest but curious relay (Ray). Ray and the destination (Bob) are full-duplex (FD) devices. Since we aim at not revealing information on the secret message to the relay, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Stefano Tomasin

Two-way communication is prevalent and its fundamental limits are first studied in the point-to-point setting by Shannon [1]. One natural extension is a two-way interference channel (IC) with four independent messages: two associated with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Changho Suh , Jaewoong Cho , David Tse

This paper investigates the problem of coordinating several agents through their actions. Although the methodology applies to general scenarios, the present work focuses on a situation with an asymmetric observation structure that only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Benjamin Larrousse , Samson Lasaulce , Matthieu Bloch

The upcoming industrial revolution requires deployment of critical wireless sensor networks for automation and monitoring purposes. However, the reliability of the wireless communication is rendered unpredictable by mobile elements in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Serkut Ayvaşık , H. Murat Gürsu , Wolfgang Kellerer

We consider the problem of communication over a network containing a hidden and malicious adversary that can control a subset of network resources, and aims to disrupt communications. We focus on omniscient node-based adversaries, i.e., the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Peida Tian , Sidharth Jaggi , Mayank Bakshi , Oliver Kosut

The Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a critical metric for quantifying information freshness; however, its interplay with channel estimation in partially observable wireless systems remains underexplored. This work considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Onur Ayan , Jiping Luo , Xueli An , Nikolaos Pappas