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We investigate the maximum rates for transmitting quantum information, distilling entanglement, and distributing secret keys between a sender and a receiver in a multipoint communication scenario, with the assistance of unlimited two-way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Riccardo Laurenza , Stefano Pirandola

In this paper, the fading broadcast channel with confidential messages is studied in the presence of statistical quality of service (QoS) constraints in the form of limitations on the buffer length. We employ the effective capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-07 Deli Qiao , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

We present an alternative take on the recently popularized concept of `\textit{joint sensing and communications}', which focuses on using communication resources also for sensing. Here, we propose the opposite, where we utilize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Mohammad Kazemi , Tolga M. Duman , Deniz Gündüz

This paper presents an overview of different concepts regarding covert channels. It discusses the various classifications and the detailing of various fields used to manipulate for the covert channel execution.Different evaluation criterias…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Nitish Salwan , Sandeep Singh , Suket Arora , Amarpreet Singh

We study a covert queueing channel (CQC) between two users sharing a round robin scheduler. Such a covert channel can arise when users share a resource such as a computer processor or a router arbitrated by a round robin policy. We present…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-16 AmirEmad Ghassami , Ali Yekkehkhany , Negar Kiyavash

Covert channels can be utilized to secretly deliver information from high privileged processes to low privileged processes in the context of a high-assurance computing system. In this case study, we investigate the possibility of covert…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Wolfgang Schmidt , Michael Hanspach , Jörg Keller

Covert communication can prevent an adversary from knowing that a wireless transmission has occurred. In additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, a square root law is found that Alice can reliably and covertly transmit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Zhihong Liu , Jiajia Liu , Yong Zeng , Jianfeng Ma

The quantum capacity of a noisy quantum channel determines the maximal rate at which we can code reliably over asymptotically many uses of the channel, and it characterizes the channel's ultimate ability to transmit quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Xin Wang

This paper considers the achievability and converse bounds on the maximal channel coding rate at a given blocklength and error probability over AWGN channels. The problem stems from covert communication with Gaussian codewords. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Xinchun Yu , Shuangqin Wei , Yuan Luo

This paper studies covert communication over channels with ADSI when the state is available either non-causally or causally at the transmitter. Covert communication refers to reliable communication between a transmitter and a receiver while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Hassan ZivariFard , Xiaodong Wang

Covert communication is necessary when revealing the mere existence of a message leaks sensitive information to an attacker. Consider a network link where an authorized transmitter Jack sends packets to an authorized receiver Steve, and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Amir Houmansadr

We consider a generalized collision channel model for general multi-user communication systems, an extension of Massey and Mathys' collision channel without feedback for multiple access communications. In our model, there are multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Yijun Fan , Yanxiao Liu , Yi Chen , Shenghao Yang , Raymond W. Yeung

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

A fundamental problem in any communication system is: given a communication channel between a transmitter and a receiver, how many "independent" signals can be exchanged between them? Arbitrary communication channels that can be described…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-14 Ram Somaraju , Jochen Trumpf

This paper studies multi-antenna-aided covert communications coexisting with randomly located wardens and interferers, considering both centralized and distributed antenna systems (CAS/DAS). The throughput performance of the covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

We determine the covert capacity for entanglement generation over a noisy quantum channel. While secrecy guarantees that the transmitted information remains inaccessible to an adversary, covert communication ensures that the transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Ohad Kimelfeld , Boulat A. Bash , Uzi Pereg

The coding theorem for the entanglement-assisted communication via infinite-dimensional quantum channel with linear constraint is extended to a natural degree of generality. Relations between the entanglement-assisted classical capacity and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. S. Holevo , M. E. Shirokov

We consider the problem of covert communication over wireless adhoc networks in which (roughly) $n$ legitimate nodes (LNs) and $n^{\kappa}$ for $0<\kappa<1$ non-communicating warden nodes (WNs) are randomly distributed in a square of unit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Kang-Hee Cho , Si-Hyeon Lee , Vincent Y. F. Tan

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

We investigate covert communication over general memoryless classical-quantum channels with fixed finite-size input alphabets. We show that the square root law (SRL) governs covert communication in this setting when product of $n$ input…