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The frequency spectrum is an essential resource for wireless communication. Special sections of the spectrum are used for military purposes, governments sell some frequency bands to broadcasting and mobile communications companies for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-29 Ramy Amer

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes allow clients to retrieve files from a database without disclosing the requested file's identity to the server. In the pursuit of post-quantum security, most recent PIR schemes rely on hard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Svenja Lage , Hannes Bartz

Cognitive Radio Networks allow unlicensed users to opportunistically access the licensed spectrum without causing disruptive interference to the primary users (PUs). One of the main challenges in CRNs is the ability to detect PU…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Shuang Li , Zizhan Zheng , Eylem Ekici , Ness Shroff

Multicasting is a fundamental networking primitive utilized by numerous applications. This also holds true for cognitive radio networks (CRNs) which have been proposed as a solution to the problems that emanate from the static non-adaptive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Junaid Qadir , Adeel Baig , Asad Ali , Quratulain Shafi

We consider the private information retrieval (PIR) problem for a multigraph-based replication system, where each set of $r$ files is stored on two of the servers according to an underlying $r$-multigraph. Our goal is to establish upper and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Shreya Meel , Xiangliang Kong , Thomas Jacob Maranzatto , Itzhak Tamo , Sennur Ulukus

Cognitive Radio (CR) is a promising technology for next-generation wireless networks in order to efficiently utilize the limited spectrum resources and satisfy the rapidly increasing demand for wireless applications and services. Security…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-08-29 Rong Yu , Yan Zhang , Yi Liu , Stein Gjessing , Mohsen Guizani

Radio Spectrum is most precious and scarce resource and must be utilized efficiently and effectively. Cognitive radio is the promising solutions for the optimum utilization of the scared natural resource. The spectrum owned by the primary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Dilip S Aldar

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a fundamental problem in the broader fields of security and privacy. In recent years, the problem has garnered significant attention from the research community, leading to achievability schemes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ningze Wang , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) are considered a promising solution for spectrum resources scarcity and efficient channel utilization. In this letter, multi-dimensional analytical Markov model based on reservation channel access scheme and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Ahmed T. El-Toukhy , Huseyin Arslan

In this paper, we consider the multi-server setting of Private Information Retrieval with Private Coded Side Information (PIR-PCSI) problem. In this problem, there is a database of $K$ messages whose copies are replicated across $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Fatemeh Kazemi , Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

In this work we study energy-efficient transmission for Cognitive Radio (CR) which opportunistically operates on Primary User's (PU's) channel through spectrum sensing. Spectrum sensing and compulsory idling (for incumbent protection)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Yuan Wu , Vincent K. N. Lau , Danny H. K. Tsang , Liping Qian

Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) provides effective capabilities for resource allocation with the valuable spectrum resources in the network. It provides the effective allocation of resources to the unlicensed users or Secondary Users (SUs) to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Aravindkumaran S , D. Saraswady

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a mechanism for efficiently downloading messages while keeping the index of the desired message secret from the servers. PIR schemes have been extended to various scenarios with adversarial servers:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Atsushi Miki , Toshiyasu Matsushima

Suppose there are $N$ distributed databases each storing a full set of $M$ independent files. A user wants to retrieve $r$ out of the $M$ files without revealing the identity of the $r$ files. When $r=1$ it is the classic problem of private…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Zhifang Zhang , Jingke Xu

A 2-server Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a user to retrieve the $i$th bit of an $n$-bit database replicated among two servers (which do not communicate) while not revealing any information about $i$ to either server. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Zeev Dvir , Sivakanth Gopi

In the classical private information retrieval (PIR) setup, a user wants to retrieve a file from a database or a distributed storage system (DSS) without revealing the file identity to the servers holding the data. In the quantum PIR (QPIR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Matteo Allaix , Lukas Holzbaur , Tefjol Pllaha , Camilla Hollanti

We consider a special case of $X$-secure $T$-private information retrieval (XSTPIR), where the security requirement is \emph{asymmetric} due to possible missing communication links between the $N$ databases considered in the system. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Mohamed Nomeir , Sajani Vithana , Sennur Ulukus

Due to ever increasing usage of wireless devices and data hungry applications, it has become necessary to improve the spectral efficiency of existing wireless networks. One way of improving spectral efficiency is to share the spectrum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-14 Shailesh Chaudhari

In this work, we investigate the benefits of secondary user (SU) network beamforming on improving primary user (PU) location privacy in spectrum sharing systems, where the beamformer in the SU network is designed to suppress the aggregate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Long Jiao , Yao Ge , Kai Zeng , B. C. Hilburn

Multi-parameter cognition in a cognitive radio network (CRN) provides a more thorough understanding of the radio environments, and could potentially lead to far more intelligent and efficient spectrum usage for a secondary user. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Rui Zhang , Peng Cheng , Zhuo Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic