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Wireless communication is susceptible to adversarial eavesdropping due to the broadcast nature of the wireless medium. In this paper it is shown how eavesdropping can be alleviated by exploiting the superposition property of the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

We study the security of communication between a single transmitter and multiple receivers in a broadcast channel in the presence of an eavesdropper. We consider several special classes of channels. As the first model, we consider the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-02 Ersen Ekrem , Sennur Ulukus

We design a new secure transmission scheme in the relay wiretap channel where a source communicates with a destination through a decode-and-forward relay in the presence of spatially random-distributed eavesdroppers. For the sake of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Chenxi Liu , Nan Yang , Robert Malaney , Jinhong Yuan

In wiretap model of secure communication the goal is to provide (asymptotic) perfect secrecy and reliable communication over a noisy channel that is eavesdropped by an adversary with unlimited computational power. This goal is achieved by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Pengwei Wang , Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

An upper bound to the identification capacity of discrete memoryless wiretap channels is derived under the requirement of semantic effective secrecy, combining semantic secrecy and stealth constraints. A previously established lower bound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Johannes Rosenberger , Abdalla Ibrahim , Boulat A. Bash , Christian Deppe , Roberto Ferrara , Uzi Pereg

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

A polar coding scheme is proposed for the Wiretap Broadcast Channel with two legitimate receivers and one eavesdropper. We consider a model in which the transmitter wishes to send a private and a confidential message that must be reliably…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Jaume del Olmo Alos , Javier R. Fonollosa

We determine the secrecy capacities under common randomness assisted coding of arbitrarily varying classical-quantum wiretap channels.Furthermore, we determine the secrecy capacity of a mixed channel model which is compound from the sender…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Holger Boche , Minglai Cai , Christian Deppe , Janis Nötzel

In this paper, we propose a transmission scheme that achieves information theoretic security, without making assumptions on the eavesdropper's channel. This is achieved by a transmitter that deliberately introduces synchronization errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Jason Castiglione , Aleksandar Kavcic

Key extraction via measuring a physical quantity is a class of information theoretic key exchange protocols that rely on the physical characteristics of the communication channel to enable the computation of a shared key by two (or more)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Matt Edman , Aggelos Kiayias , Qiang Tang , Bulent Yener

We consider the MIMO wiretap channel, that is a MIMO broadcast channel where the transmitter sends some confidential information to one user which is a legitimate receiver, while the other user is an eavesdropper. Perfect secrecy is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-11 Frédérique Oggier , Babak Hassibi

The wiretap channel models secure communication between two users in the presence of an eavesdropper who must be kept ignorant of transmitted messages. The performance of such a system is usually characterized by its secrecy capacity which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Holger Boche , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

This paper highlights security issues that can arise when incorrect assumptions are made on the capabilities of an eavesdropper. In particular, we analyze a channel model based on a split Binary Symmetric Channel (BSC). Corresponding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Jason Castiglione

In this paper, we first introduce the notion of channel leakage as the minimum mutual information between the channel input and channel output. As its name indicates, channel leakage quantifies the minimum information leakage to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Song Fang , Quanyan Zhu

This paper investigates the role of the eavesdropper's statistics in the implementation of a practical secret-key generation system. We carefully conduct the information-theoretic analysis of a secret-key generation system from wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-18 Alexandre J. Pierrot , Rémi A. Chou , Matthieu R. Bloch

Shannon's secrecy system is studied in a setting, where both the legitimate decoder and the wiretapper have access to side information sequences correlated to the source, but the wiretapper receives both the coded information and the side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Neri Merhav

Wireless communication provides a wide coverage at the cost of exposing information to unintended users. As an information-theoretic paradigm, secrecy rate derives bounds for secure transmission when the channel to the eavesdropper is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ashkan Kalantari , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Sina Maleki , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

In this paper, we investigate how constraints on the randomization in the encoding process affect the secrecy rates achievable over wiretap channels. In particular, we characterize the secrecy capacity with a rate-limited local source of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Matthieu R. Bloch , Joerg Kliewer

In this paper, a new wiretap channel model is proposed, where the legitimate transmitter and receiver communicate over a discrete memoryless channel. The wiretapper has perfect access to a fixed-length subset of the transmitted codeword…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Mohamed Nafea , Aylin Yener

The wiretap channel is a well-studied problem in the physical layer security literature. Although it is proven that the decoding error probability and information leakage can be made arbitrarily small in the asymptotic regime, further…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Daniel Seifert , Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer